Usrmaxg On Toshiba Sp6100

Hello,

This is my first post on the forum so please accept my apologies if I am posting to a wrong place.

I have a USR Maxg pcmcia card on my Toshiba SP6100 notebook. Let me tell you what I did:

ndiswrapper -i USRMAXG.inf
Installing usrmaxg

ndiswrapper -l

Installed ndis drivers
usrmaxg invalid driver!

when I try ndiswrapper -e usrmaxg.inf I receive

Driver usrmaxg.inf is not installed. Use -l to list invalid drivers

and I get nothing.

Switching to KDE Menu->System->Monitor->PCI I see my card as

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11 Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: US Robotics: Unknown device 0119
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at 26000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8K]

lsmod output gives me

ndiswrapper 157716 0

Thinking naively that I have ndiswrapper in lsmod output, that I can trick the computer, I tried to configure my wireless adapter as told in the opensuse forum. I have set up my network card with module = ndiswrapper and user controlled, I booted my system.

During boot time, I have seen the message

loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: load_driver(333): coudln't find valid drivers files for driver usrmaxg
loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: load_driver(358): couldn't load driver usrmaxg

So if ndiswrapper could install the driver, then I could start my wireless card.

This is not the ndiswrapper forum ok, but I'm stuck with this and I can't get out.

The funny thing is that I didn't receive these messages when I boot my system from Knoppix 3.6 !!! Seems like I am having problems with my beloved Suse.

Is there anyone who can help me?

Regards,
Chief

this is the chipset your card uses Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11 Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

you need the bcmwl inf,sys & cat files for ndiswrapper.
rather than reinvent the wheel, i will direct you to andrew18's site for a very good ndiswrapper howto


andy

Hi again,

I solved my problem with the assistance of rshaw on linuxquestions.org

Let me write it for the other people...

Go to website:
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/...20_5020/driver/

Download 80211g.zip

unzip and change into the directory that you have unzipped

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf

this will install the driver for US Robotics USR Maxg card

Follow the link in the previous post by deltaflyer to finalize the installation in your suse lappy

glad you got it working,chief officer. now enjoy linux any other problems don't hesitate to post

andy