Broadcom wireless installation help!

**naburleson** · 02-02-2005

Ok my friend has a HP labtop dual boot win xp and SuSE 9.2, I installed ndizwrapper and now I'm stuck. I used this site
http://cmb.phys.cwru.edu/kisner/linux/compaq-r3000/
it helped but i didn't understand some of it, anyone know what am not doing or need to do.

Also I have HP computer with the same configuration and he has a Netgear usb 802.11b/g adapter, that I want to get working.

**lakerdonald** · 02-02-2005

Okay, copy the windows drivers (.inf files) to your linux disc, let's say in this case they are located in /home/joe:

Code:

ndiswrapper -i /home/joe/bcmwl5a.inf

then turn on the power switch on the card, and do:

Code:

ifup wlan0

and if that doesn't fetch you an i.p. do:

Code:

dhcpcd wlan0

as for your friend's card, could you give some more specifics on the card?

**naburleson** · 02-03-2005

Ok tried all that and it says its already installed and then I type iwconfig and its not listed there?

**lakerdonald** · 02-03-2005

so you did the ifconfig wlan0 up and dhcpcd wlan0?

**naburleson** · 02-03-2005

tried both neither worked when I did a dmesg it saysndiswrapper is loaded but then says unsupported? I don' see how it unsupported, I got it off the suse cd.

And when I go to hardware manger and network, it says broadcom so i don't know?

found this site to http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/index.php#about

http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php
also found a linux driver for his wireless could i use this and if so how?

**philipat** · 03-31-2005

Hi All,

is there a way to use the build-in wireless card in an AMD64 Compaq laptop?

Best Regards,

philipat

Thread Tools

Display

Broadcom wireless installation help!

Compaq R3000 wireless

Posting Permissions