Odd. I thought I had posted this to debian-laptop, but it went to debian-user instead. Must have been tired. Anyway:
* John Wesley Cooper <jwesleycoo...@cox.net> [2009-03-12 19:41:34 -0700]: > I haven't quite gotten it fixed, but I have managed to successfully set up a > ndiswrapper kernel! Now all would appear to need is a driver... I thought I pointed you to a driver that you wouldn't have to install from a softpac first. Hence the instruction to download the Dell driver. It doesn't need to be prior installed by Windows or Wine. You just move it to a working directory and unzip it, then move to the resulting DRIVER directory, and ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf Like so: download from here: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.exe and copy that file into your home directory and do: unzip R151517.exe which will decompress the file. If it doesn't work, you need the unzip utility: apt-get install unzip after you have that file unpacked, a new directory will have been created: DRIVER move into that directory: cd DRIVER and as root, do ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf you can see what's in any directory you're in with with the 'ls' command as so: d...@gecko:~/Downloads/DRIVER$ ls bcm43xx64.cat bcm43xx.cat bcmwl564.sys bcmwl5.inf bcmwl5.sys Installing wine to get a simple driver to work seems IMHO to bit of overkill, and the Dell drivers seem to be a bit more complete in my experience, unless you really need the Compaq/HP stuff (I never have, but some machines can hiccup). -- Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
