do you know about this

[fkim]

my laptop is a compaq presario c700,has a broadcom wlan 1390 card
i use debian
i installed the windows driver bcmwl6.inf and it went ok.
i hit the 'iwconfig' command and no 'wlan0' appears
my card switch isnt workin i.e it doesnt go on and of(but in windows it does)
the card does not switch in linux
thanx inadvance!!

[Roxoff]

The solution is probably summat simple like a line in your /etc/modprobe.conf file that reads:

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

You could also try using the non-official broadcom wlan driver - I had all sorts of problems with bcmwl drivers and ndiswrapper before I gave up, then Fedora 6 came along with built-in wireless support for my card. It's in most distros these days.

[fkim]

the line

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

is already in my /etc/modprobe.conf file but stil it is not working
other ideas are welcome
you can also suggest where i can get those non-Broadcom drivers and how to go about it
thanx!!!

[Roxoff]

The drivers came packaged with my kernel, there was no additional driver package to download. The only extra I needed was the firmware cutter tool which rips the bcmwl firmware from the windows driver for you to put into /etc/firmware.

If you're running Fedora, RedHat, CentOS or simliar, you probably want to do:

yum install bcm43xx-fwcutter

It's a pretty similar operation with apt-get to get this tool. Then you just need a copy of the windows drivers - if yours came on a CD as a single windows executable, then you probably just need to Google for a repackaged driver, someone is bound to have one.