Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install
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
Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install
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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install
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. Does 2005.1 detect this chipset, or do any liveCD's work with it? BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, 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. Does 2005.1 detect this chipset, or do any liveCD's work with it? What does lspci say? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install
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
Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install
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
