Background:
We need laptops that connect to the wireless network to use them in the lab.
aldabella:
Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop
Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) (PCIID: 14e4:4311 (rev 01))
What I did:
1. I followed this method(Japanese!): http://www.linuxmania.jp/wireless_lan.html
Except I installed ndiswrapper-1.56 and cabextracted sp32156.exe.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Broadcom_BCM4311
Also, I didn't run
# ndiswrapper -m
2. Then I did step #6 in here: http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/1275
Note that the hardware is eth1 instead of wlan0.
3. Added the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local to make ndiswrapper load on every boot:
/sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
Result:
aldabella now connects to the wireless martian network on every boot!!
Note:
Somehow, the method that uses Broadcom official driver doesn't work.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom
It returns the following error when activating eth1:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1; Invalid argument.
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