Problems connecting to secured network (WPA) in hardy

[s1337m]

I have a BroadCam 4328, a Dell 1500 WLAN, that uses ndiswrapper on 8.04. I can connect to unsecured networks fine, but I cant connect to WPA (I havent tried WEP). I have tried some tutorials that Ive seen around (including this site), but they either have not worked or I wasn't able to complete them (not knowing my way around the network interfaces). I would really appreciate some help in getting this connected!

sean@sean-laptop:~$ lspci | grep BCM
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)

sean@sean-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"linksys"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:18:39:FD:84:13   
          Bit Rate=11 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm   
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B   
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:17/100  Signal level:-85 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

iwlist scan works fine...

sean@sean-laptop:~$ uname -r
2.6.24-19-generic

sean@sean-laptop:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:16:cf:3d:0d:69
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.52+Broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100. ip=192.168.1.106 latency=0 module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:15:c5:4a:16:69
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 latency=64 module=ssb multicast=yes
sean@sean-laptop:~$

thanks!!

[CH1C0]

I had the same problem with my laptop's Atheros network adapter. I switched to a Retail Plus USB wireless card and switched from ath0 to eth1 and all is well in WPA land. Hope this helps.

If you're using a wire, I can't help since I cut the cord back in my Windows days.

[s1337m]

I had the same problem with my laptop's Atheros network adapter. I switched to a Retail Plus USB wireless card and switched from ath0 to eth1 and all is well in WPA land. Hope this helps.

If you're using a wire, I can't help since I cut the cord back in my Windows days.

Thanks for the input. Ive tried so many tutorials and still no working secured internet, but it is possible (Ive used this card on fedora core before). I have a dell inspiron e1705, just fyi... i am losing my mind here