On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Long delay, but I haven't had a lot of time to work on this. Over the last > couple of days I've made some progress. > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:43:36PM +0200, Gabriele Pongelli wrote: > > > i've tried to use the kernel module bcm43xx on my vanilla 2.6.24.4 kernel > > but it won't work... > > if "lspci" tells you about this hardware > > 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN > > Mini-PCI Card (rev 01) > > you can use wifi with ndiswrapper and this [2] windows driver... > > you've to execute these commands, briefly: > > # m-a prepare > > # m-a a-i ndiswrapper > > # depmod -a > > # modprobe ndiswrapper > > # unzip -a /path/to/downloaded/R151517.EXE > > # cd /path/to/downloaded/ && cd to the created directory form extraction > > and in subdirectory DRIVER > > # ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf > > So, I'm assuming I'm missing a step? > > Honestly, I did read the Wireless-HOWTO and search the Debian Wiki among > other places, but I have no idea what I'm missing. I will as before > appreciate any help--I really do appreciate it, Gabriele. > -- > Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Carl, You appear to be doing Ndiswrapper right. Make sure you uninstall the BCM43xx and the B43 driver from your repo completely, I would go as far as manually deleting the drivers from /lib/firmware (If any drivers exist?) to take care of any possible conflicts. Also blacklist both BCM43xx and B43, because this is what I had to do, to get my friends laptop going without it sending his wifi card to sleep while trying to use ndiswrapper. This card is being worked over at: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#unsupported For the new future B43 driver. It may take time due to Broadcoms lovely willingness to help...... LOL!!!! Anyway, report back and let us know. Regards, -- JD. Brown Linux User # 375995 - http://counter.li.org/ Debian - http://www.debian.org/intro/about -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
