WKenworthy wrote:
Ive found that the latest knoppix has ndiswrapper so I have grabbed the
windoze binary and will give that a go tonight - 2005.1 doesnt appear to
have ndiswrapper. If all else failed I'll carry the thing into the
study and run a cable from the switch until I get everything copied
across :(
BillK
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 22:20 -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 07:40 am, W.Kenworthy wrote:
I am just about to install gentoo on my wifes dell9200 with the broadcom
BCM4309 chipset. However, no wlan0 is created and the chipset is not
detected.
Um, Broadcom + IEEE 802.11 + Free Unix = no support (unless you're running a
Linux 2.4 kernel on the MIPS32-el architecture, and then it's a proprietary
binary).
Jonathan Kollasch
Actually, you can just 'emerge ndiswrapper' Be sure to read all the
warnings at the end. You can ignore the warning about the 4K kernel
stacks. The bcmwl5a driver works fine for me with the 2.6 kernel (so
far). I use a scratch-built kernel (gentoo-source) and not genkernel. If
the PCI address of your wlan card is 1404:4320, it should be able to use
that driver. It is in the driver package: bcdriver/AR/bcmwl5a.inf
Good luck.
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