Expert: Denis Mello - 8/12/2007

Question
Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
thats my wireless card, it setup all ready to go! I ran ifconfig and iwconfig, and both say it found the router, I can log into the router, there is a access point, ip address are found, ran some tests it all checked out! but for some reason when I try and run firefox and load a page it keeps saying it can't find the network, I tried ping google.com and said network is unreachable, yet everything checks out, why can't I connect to the net? ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT! and yes I already did the whole ndiswrapper thing already, it worked out great. OH and I am using a internal wireless card, any clue in to why its all setup correctly finds teh router, but still... doesn't connect?

Answer
Hi Joseph. It seems that you alredy did everything that is wanted.
Did you try to attach the router's IP address as your gateway?
Try:
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/note...0_5020/driver/

download the 80211g.zip
unpack
use the bcmwl5a.inf file

just search this forum or google for "broadcom and ndiswrapper" and you will find the much discussed process you need. Broadcoms are not fully supported by linux yet, but this ndiswrapper utility lets you use the windows .inf driver to make it work. I have opensuse 10.2 with the broadcom 4311 working just fine.

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=29072

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation