mkj

hi for all
i have a Dell latitude D 610 laptop and i have installed on it fedora 8 . i have a problem with installing my wireless card it is a dell PCI mini dual band i have tried with ndiswrapper to activate the bcmwl5.ini but it didnt work i hope i didnt do any mistake so any one could help me
thanks alot

daark.child

Check the chipset being used by the card by running

mkj

thank daark.child
i have done like u told me and i had the following:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
03:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 [AirForce 54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver (rev 02)
so how can i continue
thanks alot

daark.child

The script available here may help you. Also take a look at this article.

mkj

i have copied the lines that u gave me but
su -
rm -r dangermouse "no file or directory"
wget http://dnmouse.webs.com/scripts/dangermouse
sh dangermouse "dangermouse: line 12: zenity: command not found
Running Choice Menu...
sh: line 1: zenity: command not found"

so the script didnt work and i will try the articles and keep you in touch
thanks for ur reply

daark.child

Don't bother with the "rm -r" stuff. Just start from the wget part (which you already completed anyway). As for the zenity error, you need to install zenity using yum e.g. "yum install zenity".

mkj

i have tried the articles and i have tried to install the bcm43xx but when trying to install the version 3.130.20.0 of Broadcom's proprietary driver.
when typing:
i get
bcm43xx-fwcutter version 006

Usage: ./bcm43xx-fwcutter-006/bcm43xx-fwcutter [OPTION] [driver.sys]
-l|--list List supported driver versions
-i|--identify Only identify the driver file (don't extract)
-w|--target-dir DIR Extract and write firmware to DIR
-a|--alt-iv Extract alternative initvals (only 3.10.x.x)
-p|--postfix ".FOO" Postfix for firmware filenames (.FOO.fw)
-v|--version Print bcm43xx-fwcutter version
-h|--help Print this help

Example: ./bcm43xx-fwcutter-006/bcm43xx-fwcutter bcmwl5.sys
to extract the firmware blobs from bcmwl5.sys
and i think that for this i cant excute the:
wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
do u think that in the wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o the last letter is 0 instead of o

mkj

i did whar u have told me and i thik that the script finished his work thank u very much for ur help and i hope that this is done since from 6 months i am searhing to find a solution of the problem

mkj

although the script finished its work but now when trying to activate the wlan0 it is giving the following error :
error for wireless request "set mode" (8B06: Set failed on device wlan0
so what should i do