configuring broadcom 4324 under ndiswrapper

Hi! I've recently had the pleasure of purchasing a Dell 5100 with a
built in Dell Truemobile 1400 wireless card. I promptly installed
slackware 9.1 on it and was promptly disappointed to find out that the
truemobile, which according to lspci uses the broadcom 4324 chipset, is
not supported by linux currently.

I have tried getting this chip to work using ndiswrapper, but am having
trouble configuring it. The wrapper seems to load the driver perfectly,
or at least I get no errors. But I can't seem to connect to the wireless
netword I have set up here at my home. I'm really not very proficient at
configuring linux.

According to the readme file that comes with the ndiswrapper I have to
use ifconfig and iwconfig to set up the network and I have tried to do so.

For ifconfig I typed in:
ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.10 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0

for iwconfig I typed in:
iwconfig eth1 channel 5 mode managed key [my wep key] power timeout 300u all

but for whatever reason I got an error saying that "SET failed on device
eth1; No Such Device" until I removed the channel portion.

Then I tried using dhclient, but it just timed out in the end. I was
left unconnected.

Anybody got any clue as to what's wrong? Like I said, I suck at
configuring linux. Thanks for any help you give to getting my laptop
working right.

Tom

kind of a followup. I have refined the commands I use to configure, but
still have had no success connecting. For ifconfig I currently use:

ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.3 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0

iwconfig stays the same.

I'm just trying to connect to the internet through my router. One
question I have to ask is, the ip address I use is based on the ip
address windows tells me it uses, but shouldn't this ideally be a value
recieved from the router? The broadcast and netmask values I got from
the values used by my desktop which is connected to the router and works
fine.

Anyway, thanks for any help anybody can give me to help resolving this
issue so I can stop using windows.


tom mccarthy wrote:

> Hi! I've recently had the pleasure of purchasing a Dell 5100 with a
> built in Dell Truemobile 1400 wireless card. I promptly installed
> slackware 9.1 on it and was promptly disappointed to find out that the
> truemobile, which according to lspci uses the broadcom 4324 chipset, is
> not supported by linux currently.
>
> I have tried getting this chip to work using ndiswrapper, but am having
> trouble configuring it. The wrapper seems to load the driver perfectly,
> or at least I get no errors. But I can't seem to connect to the wireless
> netword I have set up here at my home. I'm really not very proficient at
> configuring linux.
>
> According to the readme file that comes with the ndiswrapper I have to
> use ifconfig and iwconfig to set up the network and I have tried to do so.
>
> For ifconfig I typed in:
> ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.10 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> for iwconfig I typed in:
> iwconfig eth1 channel 5 mode managed key [my wep key] power timeout 300u
> all
>
> but for whatever reason I got an error saying that "SET failed on device
> eth1; No Such Device" until I removed the channel portion.
>
> Then I tried using dhclient, but it just timed out in the end. I was
> left unconnected.
>
> Anybody got any clue as to what's wrong? Like I said, I suck at
> configuring linux. Thanks for any help you give to getting my laptop
> working right.
>
> Tom
>