Configuring Dell Truemobile 1400 WLAN mini pci card a.k.a BCM 94306 802.11 b/g card on Fedora Core 2

This is a detailed account what I did. Mostly the mistakes.

I downloaed ndiswrapper-0.9 and untarred, compiled and installed. I downloaded the latest drivers for the card from Dell. The files are found under R81435/AR dir. The files bcmw15a.inf was used for installation.

ndiswrapper -i /etc/bcmw15a.inf

ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5a hardware present

modprobe ndiswrapper

ndiswrapper -m will install the modules and update /etc/modprobe.conf.

Initally the ndiswrapper was not working with the drivers I had. So I tried with linuxant driverloader which too didnt work. Later, I downloaded the new drivers, which also was not working since both the modules were loading and conflicting each other. Once I rmmod driverloader and uninstalled the rpm, the WLAN interface started working fine.

iwconfig eth1 essid
iwconfig eth1 enc restricted
iwconfig eth1 key
iwconfig eth1 Mode managed

ifconfig eth1 up