Wirless card not working -ndiswrapper

[maddave]

Hi,

Im new to Linux and today installed Ubuntu onto my Dell laptop. Everything went incredibly smoothly but I cant get my Belking 54G (F5D7010 Broadcom Chipset) wireless PCMCIA card to work. I have found I have to use ndiswrapper and have installed the latest version and followed the instructions. It gets to the point where I have successfully installed the cards drivers by doing typing:
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
Which when I do a ndiswrapper -l command it says:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

But then doing the next command:
sudo iwlist wlan0 scan

I receive the following:
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

And all the instructions I can find say it should be working now and nothing about this error message.

Any help would be great!

David

 

[maddave]

Ah I think I have found what could be wrong. The card isn't powering up, there areno lights on the card at all. So how do I power up the card?

 

[maddave]

All working now. Not sure how, but it is!