I gave up on the wireless install (couldnt get ndiswrapper to work on knoppix - probably my lack of familiarity with it) and ended up using a network cable to copy across an existing (complete and running) P3 desktop system. Other than the fact I got out of sync and issued a rm -rfv / in the wrong place and didnt quite restore everything after this, its now running fine on ndiswrapper.
I did find the stable wpa_supplicant would not connect using ndiswrapper, whilst my other atheros based laptop worked fine. Fixed by using the ~x86 wpa_supplicant, now both laptops are happy. What should have been a <60 minute start to end install has spun out to a few days now! - but at least I am almost there now. BillK On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 22:41 -0400, Steve Brenneis wrote: > 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. -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
