I know the bcm4318 mini pci wifi card works in my Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop - I had installed a hard drive with Fedora 8 (installed on a different laptop) and I had no trouble using ndiswrapper and getting the wireless nic to work perfectly. Now I've put the original hard drive (that had Fedora 6 working with the same wireless nic) back in, installed Fedora 8 (destroying all of the original data on the disk). I've installed the same kernel, ndiswrapper, kernel modules, etc. that is on the other hard drive with Fedora 8, went through the same process but cannot get the wireless nic with the new Fedora 8 to work. Surely, it can't be the hard drive (the laptop connects to the wired eth0 connection). If I put the other hard drive in with Fedora 8, the bcm4318 connects to the wireless network. I've blacklisted bcm43xx, b43, and ssb (not sure ssb needs to be blacklisted or even can be blacklisted). I can get the nic to scan: [root@localhost ~]# iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:E7:0B:50:B0 ESSID:"default" Protocol:IEEE 802.11g Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11) Quality:50/100 Signal level:-64 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Extra:bcn_int=100 Extra:atim=0 [root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper reports: [root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -l bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4318) present (alternate driver: ssb) I'm not sure what ssb is but when the other drive was it, I received the same message and the nic connected to the wireless network. dmesg reports: ndiswrapper version 1.48 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no) ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,12/22/2004, 3.100.46.0) loaded ndiswrapper: using IRQ 1 (see below) wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:a5:09:f5:28 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x3642e00, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 14E4:4318.5.conf wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper modprobe reports: [root@localhost ~]# modprobe -l | grep ndiswrapper /lib/modules/2.6.23.9-85.fc8/extra/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko lspci reports: [root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep BCM 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) If I try to manually configure the nic using iwconfig, I can set the key but I CANNOT get it to set the essid: [root@localhost ~]# iwconfig wlan0 essid default [root@localhost ~]# iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 (iwconfig will set the key, but I'm not showing the key info.) When I use dhclient to obtain a lease, it tells me no leases were offered (even though the other laptop is connected to the wireless network and I've had them both wirelessly connected at the same time when using Fedora 6 on the Dell). I cannot figure out why iwconfig cannot set the essid. What else can I check? Any ideas on what is wrong or how to fix this? (I've tried the "native" driver for the bcm4318 but it just will not work.) Rick B. P.S. I do get this message from dmesg but I don't think it has anything to do with ndiswrapper: irq 5: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [<c045b16a>] __report_bad_irq+0x36/0x75 [<c045b380>] note_interrupt+0x1d7/0x213 [<c057ae99>] usb_hcd_irq+0x21/0x4e [<c045a807>] handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x51 [<c045bcaf>] handle_level_irq+0x88/0xb9 [<c045bc27>] handle_level_irq+0x0/0xb9 [<c04074c3>] do_IRQ+0x8c/0xb9 [<c0405b6f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28 [<c0431dec>] __do_softirq+0x50/0xd3 [<c04073d5>] do_softirq+0x6c/0xce [<c0444685>] tick_do_update_jiffies64+0x15/0xa8 [<c04401a1>] ktime_get+0xf/0x2b [<c045bc27>] handle_level_irq+0x0/0xb9 [<c0431cc5>] irq_exit+0x38/0x6b [<c04074d6>] do_IRQ+0x9f/0xb9 [<c043ff74>] hrtimer_start+0xfe/0x10a [<c0403ddf>] default_idle+0x0/0x55 [<c0405b6f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28 [<c0403ddf>] default_idle+0x0/0x55 [<c042007b>] save_v86_state+0x19/0x12b [<c0421f78>] native_safe_halt+0x2/0x3 [<c0403e18>] default_idle+0x39/0x55 [<c040340b>] cpu_idle+0xab/0xcc [<c073fa6c>] start_kernel+0x32c/0x334 [<c073f177>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x195 ======================= handlers: [<c057ae78>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4e) Disabling IRQ #5 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list