I have a Broadcom wifi card which uses the bcmwl5a.inf driver in XP.
I've checked out the card under puppy using lspci and it says the VID:PID is 14e4: 4318
I've tried using ndiswrapper to get this working but no joy.
Has anyone else tried this card ?
K
How to make Broadcom wifi card work?
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BlackAdder
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Not sure what you have tried with ndiswrapper. The wifi-beta2 dot pup does support the Broadcom chipset, but your vendor id: product id combination is not listed. You can find it here.
The dot pup implements ndiswrapper (only), and has a HowTo that includes info. on installing and activating your own drivers. It is a 3+MB download.
The driver set provided by tempestuous (forum name) doesn't include Broadcomm drivers. Pity about that.
Hope this helps.
The dot pup implements ndiswrapper (only), and has a HowTo that includes info. on installing and activating your own drivers. It is a 3+MB download.
The driver set provided by tempestuous (forum name) doesn't include Broadcomm drivers. Pity about that.
Hope this helps.
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tempestuous
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A Linux driver for Broadcom wifi chips has only just been released in the last few months - http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/
It's at alpha stage, and will only compile on a recent 2.6 kernel. I even tried, without success, to compile it against the Puppy 1.0.2 kernel (2.6.11.7).
It's at alpha stage, and will only compile on a recent 2.6 kernel. I even tried, without success, to compile it against the Puppy 1.0.2 kernel (2.6.11.7).
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kulkulcaan
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Broadcom Wifi Card
Managed to sort this one out.
I got the ndiswrapper and perl pups. Loaded them both and found that ndiswrapper came with the bcmwl5 driver. However, this driver does not work for my card.
I removed the existing bcmwl5 driver and replaced it with the one from windoze eXPee.
ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5 (removed old driver included with ndiswrapper pup)
ndiswrapper -i /root/my-drivers/bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
"bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present "
This came back and confirmed that the driver was loaded and the hardware was detected.
The card is VID:PCI 14e4:4318 which is not listed as working anywhere. I did find 14e4:4320 was so I'll add 4318 to the wireless page.
I then configured the card using WAG
I then used the /etc/rc.d/rc.local script to load the card at boot up.
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid wireless
iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXX
ifconfig wlan0 IPADDR up
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
I had problems putting multiple parameters to set up the card so I did them individually.
I also set /etc/resolv.conf to include my router;
nameserver 192.168.0.1
I didnt bother with dhcp as I only have a couple of devices so I hardcoded it.
Hope this helps people
K
I got the ndiswrapper and perl pups. Loaded them both and found that ndiswrapper came with the bcmwl5 driver. However, this driver does not work for my card.
I removed the existing bcmwl5 driver and replaced it with the one from windoze eXPee.
ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5 (removed old driver included with ndiswrapper pup)
ndiswrapper -i /root/my-drivers/bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
"bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present "
This came back and confirmed that the driver was loaded and the hardware was detected.
The card is VID:PCI 14e4:4318 which is not listed as working anywhere. I did find 14e4:4320 was so I'll add 4318 to the wireless page.
I then configured the card using WAG
I then used the /etc/rc.d/rc.local script to load the card at boot up.
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid wireless
iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXX
ifconfig wlan0 IPADDR up
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
I had problems putting multiple parameters to set up the card so I did them individually.
I also set /etc/resolv.conf to include my router;
nameserver 192.168.0.1
I didnt bother with dhcp as I only have a couple of devices so I hardcoded it.
Hope this helps people
K