On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, robert pierson wrote:
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
I did a little test. usually you can extract files from executables either
by using cabextract or unzip. And in this case you can simply do:
unzip R174291.exe
So we can drop the wine dependency.
(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.
So to be honest I think we can write up some instructions for
ndiswrapper that are less specific to your situation. What I see is:
- Locate and download the windows drivers
- Extract the archive (cabextract, unzip or use wine)
- Use ndiswrapper on the .inf file
- Verify that it installed correctly
- Load ndiswrapper module
And as an example you could give the instructions for your wireless card.
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