Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610
Ndiswrapper is a workaround to use Windows drivers for wireless card in Linux. So dowload the Windows driver from acer.com
and unpack it let's say i /tmp/wifi. Then move to the /tmp/wifi and as root:
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
modprobe ndiswrapper
Now you can see at the end of dmesg, that your wireless card is enabled and ready to go. Now is time for acer_acpi (as root):
modprobe acer_acpi
echo "enabled : 1" >> /proc/acpi/acer/wirelessled
Now you can use iwconfig to enjoy wireless networking
2006/3/9, Juanjavier Martínez <
debian@juanjaviermartinez.com>:
Martin Surovčák wrote:
>I've got Acer 3023LMI that has got some Broadcom Wi-Fi card.
>
Great then!! Mine is Aspire 3610, so I suppose they are very close and similar notebooks....
>I've installed ndiswrapper...
Good, I installed ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.8-2-686 yesterday, but now I don't know how to continue. :-(
>....and used driver downloaded via
acer.com <http://acer.com>.
A driver for Windows? I didn't manage to find any driver for linux in
acer.com; so I suppose
that you meant `a Windows driver', since I heard something about `ndiswrapper' doing some kind
of emulation...but I did not dig enough on this issue...
>To enable Wi-Fi card, I've used acer_acpi (
http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html ) instead of acerhk.
>To install acer_acpi, download it and read INSTALL file.
As I told, this is how the wireless card appears in the lspci output:
>0000:06:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g]
802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>
So far I managed to set up the wireless LAN by previously installing the kernel headers typing:
apt-get install kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-686
Compiling and installing the driver:
make
make install
cp acer_acpi.ko /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/char
...and finally loading it onto the kernel
modprobe acer_acpi
Now the module is listed in the output of lsmod:
Module Size Used by
acer_acpi 6348 0
...which indicates that the module is loaded but not active.
Well, now...how do I continue?
Where do ndiswrapper and the driver from
acer.com enter the picture?
Thanks in advance,
Juanjavier Martínez.
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