Broadcom WLAN on Siemens v5505

[Eckhard]

Hi,

 

well I was really in a bad mode when i bought the Broadcom 4311 Mini-PCI Wlan Card. The card showed up as an Airport OOB. But I wasn't able to activate the card. Clicking the Button "Turn Airport ON" didn't do anything at all.

 

Then for 10 minutes I jumped through my room because my card seemed to work perfectly after updating my iDeneb system to 10.5.5! I was surfing through the Internet without a cable and downloaded the Software Updates, rebootet and again my WLAN doesn't want to wake up.

 

But now i know that my card is working with the right configuration. But what do I have to configure?

 

My Card in the System Profiler:

AirPort:

 

Type: AirPort

Hardware: AirPort

BSD Device Name: en1

IPv4:

Configuration Method: DHCP

IPv6:

Configuration Method: Automatic

Proxies:

Exceptions List: *.local, 169.254/16

FTP Passive Mode: Yes

Ethernet:

MAC Address: 00:15:f2:00:00:00

Media Options:

Media Subtype: Auto Select

 

Has anybody expierence with this kind of Problem? I already read through those threads:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=51725

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=23684

 

no luck

 

I thought it had something to do with my wlan hardware switch. But now i know that it is possible to use the card without the support of the hardware switch. But the thing is, I don't want to reinstall the my system for using the wlan till the next shutdown.

 

I will post if there are any updates on this. Thanks for your help!

 

----UPDATE----

 

I tried an sudo ifconfig en1 up. That what i get after this command:

en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

inet6 fe80::216:d3ff:fe87:ed53%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4

inet 192.168.1.91 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255

ether 00:16:d3:87:ed:53

media: autoselect (100baseTX <half-duplex>) status: active

supported media: 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 1000baseT <half-duplex> 1000baseT <full-duplex> autoselect

en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

ether 00:15:f2:00:00:00

media: autoselect (<unknown type>) status: inactive

supported media: autoselect

 

As is says inactive. An active would make me happy....