[HanoiLUG] Re: Problem with wireless card on Dell laptop?

[Luong Trong Duc]

> That sounds odd.  That's a Broadcom windows driver that you used, and while I don't specifically recognize Intel PRO 1390, normally Intel Pro Wireless uses their own chipsets, not Broadcom, which have an open-sourced driver together with the IPW firmware, as you noted.  Maybe the Broadcom windows drivers work with Intel hardware (strange) or maybe Intel marketed some Broadcom chips under their own name...
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> The important thing is that it is now working, so have fun with it, Duc, but just for curiosity, could you post the output of "lspci -v"?
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> In fact, for all wireless NIC questions, it is usually bus truly what card is installed (except for USB adapters, of course -- then "lsusb -v"), which is the starting point to know what driver must be used, and so forth.
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Hi David,
Thanks for your email. Sorry I response late. Actually, my card is  
Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card, not an Intel 
PRO one. I was mistaken about that :P
Anyway, I use the windows driver files (bcmw15.inf and bcmv15.sys) with 
ndiswrapper. There's a very useful guide for this issue here: 
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Ndiswrapper
In short, I installed ndiswrapper first, then I ran:

ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf

After that, I ran:

modprobe ndiswrapper

Then

iwconfig wlan0 mode managed

Then, I could select the network from the task bar (bottom right of the 
screen). For details, please see the link above.
Hope that helps anyone who has the same problem.

Thank you,
Duc