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. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
