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intermittent wireless connection

Asked by Bill Strauch

I found the Windows driver for my Dell TrueMobile 1300 PCI card and used ndiswrapper to install it. Sometimes it works, beautifully.
Most of the time the card does not activate (lights on) when I insert it.
I do not know if the driver is what activate it (lights on) or the insertion does.
Would like some help there as I am new to this technology.
The only caveat on the ndiswrapper is that they recommended bcmwl6a.inf be installed, and the .exe file only contained bcmwl5a.inf which I installed.
Appreciate your help.

Bil

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Wrwrwr (wrwrwr) said : 		#1

Try bringing your card up with:
sudo ifdown wlan0
sudo ifup wlan0

If that's not enough lets establish some facts, i've checked ndiswrapper list and found the following for TrueMobile 1300:

   Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
   Driver used: R115321.EXE from from support.dell.com
   Other: Dell TrueMobile 1300 MPCI Card, driver released 06/23/2006, for USA only, not USB.

Is this your card, and the driver you've used? If not try to find yours on ndiswrapper list: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,list/

I understand you've followed the steps from: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper.

Where did you find that bcmwl5a.inf advice? I can't find neither the recommendation nor the driver with that version.

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Bill Strauch (slikdata-gmail) said : 		#2

I went back to ndiswrapper List and used item 50, R94827.EXE in place of item 54, R83097.EXE. That solved the problem. Thanks for your reply

Bill