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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list