Not being particularly saavy I was not able to get ndiswrapper working with the
generic instructions provided and went to a few other sites to cobble the
information together to get the wireless magic to work... Though I suppose it
probably makes sense not to get too detailed and then clutter up the wiki with
misc. mumbo jumbo.
Here was the draft I created -
For the Dell D830 with the Dell
Wireless 1390/1395 cards that are recognized (using lspci -vnn) as
Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controllers.
The B43 driver and fwcutter application
will not work. You may find ndiswrapper more suitable.
yum install wine
yum install ndiswrapper
(1) mkdir /ndiswrapper_drivers
(2)
cd /ndiswrapper_drivers
(3) wget
http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R174291.exe
(4) wine R174291.exe
(5) Specify the location where it is
going to be installed preferrably /ndiswrapper_drivers
(6) cd
DRIVER
(7) Assuming that you have already ndiswrapper
installed:
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
(8) ndiswrapper -l (to
check if its installed)
you should get an output similar to
this
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4315) present
(9)
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
(10) now i suggest you restart you
computer
(12) And then you can enable NetworkManager to use it.
--- On Wed, 12/31/08, Dag Wieers <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Dag Wieers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki - Wireless Network with ndiswrapper
To: "Mail list for wiki articles" <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 7:12 PM
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, robert pierson wrote:
> I have created my own documentation to get the wireless adapters on my
laptops to work with ndiswrapper. It might be useful to have this posted to
the Network section of the How To or Tips and Tricks...
I tried to bring together all wireless solutions/issues here:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless
Admittedly, this page could use some help (and an addition for the newer
iwlwifi and iwlagn drivers in CentOS 5.3 when it arrives).
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