Laptop HP dv5094EA, no wireless connect with Mepis 6
I presently have a successful XP wireless connection from my Laptop HP dv5094EA to a 'central' PC (XP) with a Belkin Wireless G Router.
I have so far failed to make a wireless laptop Internet connection using Mepis 6 live CD (from Linux User & Developer, issue 65), after successful Mepis installation. I am no expert but have faithfully tried many of the wireless-connect options. In particular I have tried to use bcmwl5.inf & bcmwl5.sys (from XP C:\swsetup\SP33008A\ ) in ndiswrapper by copying from hda1, and noted that Mepis did this automatically. I have tried several forum suggestions under networking and laptops, without success: The lower left icon message says eth1 is connected, but ping 69.5.5.47 is no good.
I would greatly value any help, or pointers to help. Please do not assume that I have done everything obvious and sensible, it might be the simplest foolishness.
Michael Caola
Broadcom
I have posted many times about Broadcom wireless, and it does cause problems
http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Any_card_using_the_Broadcom_43xx_chipset
After you make sure bcm43xx is blacklisted
type ndiswrapper -l
should show
driver present, hardware present
you need to set up wlan0 for ndiswrapper -- eth1 is probably the bcm43xx driver connection which (I think) is more difficult to get working -- this should disappear after you do the blacklist and reboot
Use our wiki http://www.mepis.org/docs
Post to http://www.mepislovers.com -- great forum
Mike