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?
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