How to activate Broadcom 1505 wirless card on RHEL

[sean_zhang]

I installed ndiswrapper, and tried to use the Windows driver to activate the Broadcom 1505 802.11n wireless card on RHEL, but failed.

1. Add line 'alias wlan1 ndiswrapper' to /etc/modprobe.conf
2. # system-config-network
Add the wireless card and try to activate it.

But the error message pops up:
"ndiswrapper device wlan1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."

I checked dmesg and found no failure message related to bcmwl5 or ndiswrapper.
But the wireless card could not be detected by hwbrowser.

I successfully used Broadcom 1390 802.11bg wireless card on SLED at one time or another, via the help of ndiswrapper.

Can you please provide any suggestion?

[falko]

What's the output of lspci?

[sean_zhang]

lspci -v
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
Memory at f9ffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information
Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 1c-00-40-ff-ff-26-d3-bd
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting

[falko]

Have you tried to use wlan0 instead of wlan1?