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 <dag at centos.org> wrote: From: Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org> Subject: Re: Wiki - Wireless Network with ndiswrapper To: "Mail list for wiki articles" <centos-docs at centos.org> 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). -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]_______________________________________________ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20081231/a3212eed/attachment.html
