Wireless card help

[mrBlue]

Card: Belkin f5d7000
Chipset: Broadcom BCM4306 rev03 (as reported by lspci)
pciid: 14e4:4320

I've been trying for several days to get this damn card working in Fedora 7 x64 and I'm at the end of my rope. ndiswrapper reports that the driver is installed and device is present. I blacklisted the 43xx kernel driver since it apparently causes some conflicts. At any rate, I tried several different ones including the one built into XPx64 - which is what I normally run this card under. I thought maybe there was a problem when the driver was associated with the hardware so I tried forcing association and it reports back the driver is in fact linked to the card.

There was no alias in modprobe.conf even though ndiswrapper -m executes and reports alias is created. After some searching I found the alias in another file but I can't remember off hand where it was. Anyway, I placed the alias in the .conf file and now the card shows up as an option in the network config utility. I configure the settings ... save ...restart the network and try to activate. That's when it takes a dump on me. I was originally getting a hardware not present error but now it's something along the lines of cannot set bit rate something-or-other and then an error code.

This is pretty much useless to me if I can't get on the internet so if anyone can offer some insight or perhaps info I may have missed it would be greatly appreciated.

**Edit 6/19**

No ideas yet, eh? Think I'm gonna try my luck in Ubuntu but if any one comes across info for Fedora drop me a line here or PM me. I'm rather fond of Red Hat since it was the first Linux distro I tried quite a few years ago -- I'd really like to get it set up completely.

[fway]

Oops Didn't Pay Attention to the Fact you Had Fedora. This May Work though :)


I found a pretty simple way to setup the wireless config on Fiesty. Credits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsG4aVXxkcE)

This Probably Will Work for you, since I had no idea how to install ndiswrapper (i don't know I also followed the steps from ubuntu forums [you're probably saying "omgn00b".]) Here's the Scoop. I Have a Broadcom Wireless 4311 <-yep. on an HP Pavillion dv2000 using a linksys router

so here's what I did

1. Go to System --> Administration --> Network
2. Type Password in (if Available, no idea how to get it off mine, but I'll deal)
3. Go to your ip account for your router *linksys = 192.168.1.1* using firefox.
4. Type Password in and All that Crap, then wireless>wireless security
5. Copy Key 1 (underneath "Passphrase")
6. Uncheck Wired Connection (don't forget to take out your wires before or wired connection will recconect)
7. Double Click the Wireless Connection (or look for it if it's not there XD )
7a. paste the "passphrase" to where it says "Network Password" in "Network Settings"
7b. Make Sure Your Password Type is Hexidecimal and not Ascii
7c. Your Auto Configuration Should Be DHCP
8.Click Ok then Close out of "Network Settings"

Badabing Badaboom You should Be Ready to Connect to the Internet. This is just a test to see if the people at Ubuntu changed the firmware or something for broadcom.

[mrBlue]

Thanks for the info mate. Unfortunately, I've been really busy lately so I haven't had the time to fiddle with it in quite a while. Not to mention having to reformat my hdds - did I mention I hate children? Anyway, I was planning to try out Ubuntu since it seemed more people had this card working under that platform. Hopefully it won't be as much of a pain in the ass.

[Garfunkel]

I would recommend it for a new user.

Fedora is an excellent distro but ubuntu is better for a newb.