Wireless NIC works only in Windows

[Larry W. Finger]

At 11:41 AM 10/20/2005, John Smith wrote:
>Hello,
>I have an IBM T22 laptop which dual boots linux/windows.
>I use a BroadcomWPC54G wireless CardBus NIC.
>
>Suddenly the card stopped working with Linux and works fine with Windows.
>
>I have both Mandrake 10 and Ubuntu installed (both using the 2.6 kernel)
>
>I've included the lspci -vv and dmesg from my Mandrake installation:

The WPC54G is being detected as shown in your lspci output. Have you 
configured and loaded ndiswrapper? There is no Linux driver for the 
BCM4306 chip; therefore you need to use ndiswrapper and the Windows 
driver. If you use WPA encryption, you will also need wpa_supplicant.

Larry