These handy tools will give you lots of helpful info on how your network connections are working (or not):

ifconfig (should be part of your standard install)
iwconfig (in Debian, it's part of the wireless-tools package)

I get the impression that ndiswrapper only provides the compatibility layer upon which you can use the Windows drivers; have you also installed said Windows drivers?

Good luck; With my last brand-new notebook, it took me a few days to get a mostly satisfactory Linux install going, and more like a year to get all of the little odds 'n ends sorted out. Would've gone faster, but I got lazy and just used it as-is for months.

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:31:54 -0400
"Sonoman" <nospam@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hi all:
> I own an HP ze5470us notebook with the dreaded broadcom wireless card.
> Broadcom does not support this card under Linux. So I got the Linux driver
> (ndiswrapper) installed and attached to wlan0 on my notebook. As far as I
> can tell the install was successful. I just don't know how to get the
> wireless started. Also, on the installation instructions they mention
> something along these lines: "Now setup the network parameters for the
> interface wlan0, this varies from distribution to distribution". This is the
> last step on the install and I don't know how to do that. Please advise.
>
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