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WKenworthy wrote: |
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>Ive found that the latest knoppix has ndiswrapper so I have grabbed the |
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>windoze binary and will give that a go tonight - 2005.1 doesnt appear to |
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>have ndiswrapper. If all else failed I'll carry the thing into the |
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>study and run a cable from the switch until I get everything copied |
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>across :( |
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>BillK |
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>On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 22:20 -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: |
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>>On Tuesday 27 September 2005 07:40 am, W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>>I am just about to install gentoo on my wifes dell9200 with the broadcom |
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>>>BCM4309 chipset. However, no wlan0 is created and the chipset is not |
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>>>detected. |
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>>Um, Broadcom + IEEE 802.11 + Free Unix = no support (unless you're running a |
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>>Linux 2.4 kernel on the MIPS32-el architecture, and then it's a proprietary |
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>>binary). |
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>> Jonathan Kollasch |
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Actually, you can just 'emerge ndiswrapper' Be sure to read all the |
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warnings at the end. You can ignore the warning about the 4K kernel |
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stacks. The bcmwl5a driver works fine for me with the 2.6 kernel (so |
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far). I use a scratch-built kernel (gentoo-source) and not genkernel. If |
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the PCI address of your wlan card is 1404:4320, it should be able to use |
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that driver. It is in the driver package: bcdriver/AR/bcmwl5a.inf |
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Good luck. |
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