Christian M. Castillo Estrada

I decided publish a little manual about how to configure a card wireless using Ubuntu OS (Feisty 7.04) in a Laptop DELL Inspiron 6400:

Well first I talking a little bit about ndiswrapper…

Ndiswrapper is a free software driver wrapper that enables the use of most wireless network cards on Linux by implementing the Windows kernel and NDIS APIs and dynamically linking the vendor’s Windows drivers to this implementation and allows you to use the Windows Driver for your network card in Linux. You will need at least the inf and the .sys file of your driver.

>> First Step (Identifying a card’s model)

# lspci | grep Broadcom
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)

>> Second Step (Downlading the Driver)

$ wget http://www.jrdw.com/linux/wireless/bcmdrivers.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf bcmdrivers.tar.gz

>> Next Step (Downlading Ndiswrapper)

$ wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.38.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf ndiswrapper-1.38.tar.gz

>> Installing some tools about ndiswrapper
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential module-assistant fakeroot dh-make debconf libstdc++5
linux-headers-$(uname -r)

>>Installing Ndiswrapper
$ cd ndiswrapper-1.38
$ sudo make uninstall #hacer esto al menos dos vecez
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install

>>Installing the driver using ndiswrapper
# sudo ndiswrapper -i /path/whereisthedriver/bcmwl5.inf

# ndiswrapper -l
installed drivers:
bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
$ sudo ndiswrapper -m

We must copy the correct driver
if your driver is (14E:4311) then the file is 14E4:4311.5.conf , but if the driver is (14E:43XX) the we copy the file 14E4:43XX.5.conf
# sudo cp /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4311.5.conf /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/.conf

We should edit a configuration file and chek a configuration line (Afterburner)
$gedit /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/.conf

“Afterburner|1? edit —> “Afterburner|0?

Finally we enable ours driver

# depmod -a

$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
$sudo modprobe -r ndiswrapper
$sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
$sudo ndiswrapper -m

We must set a name ours interfaz wireless
$iwconfig wlan0
$ifconfig eth1 up

$iwconfig

You must see it in your terminal something like that:

this picture shows you the interface eth1, who is the wireless interface. In addition, you can see the result of command (iwlist scan) which allows looking for wireless networks.

Wwell my friend, I hope this manual will be useful for you, see lo later!!

A couple weeks, The Accountant faculty where I work, it was tested by an organization called CACECA which tests the quality of career and certificates it, so that a group of teacher were working for many weeks about that certification. We had to get a bounch of information that describes the different process belongs to faculty. Many days we worked very late, starting 8:00 a.m to 4:00 a.m the next day jejeje!! Well I believe we achieve the goal (The Certification of the Career ), I hope jaja

It’s a matter of great pride for people to achieve the certification, because the faculty can get many resources like a financing, better infrastructure, scholarship for its students… etc

The last day, we took a picture, I show you it!!

As you can see, is a big group of teacher. Most of they are my friends (Mtro. David, Julio, CP. Rafita, CP. Gomez Ventura, Mtra. Flor, Estrella, Dolores, Sara and my Boss (Chalo) jaja! my another friend doesn’t appear in the picture but he is Mtro. Emilio alias milin!!