Re: Wireless on HP NX6125 (64 bit)
Richard Mace wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently bought an HP nx6125 laptop and have successfully installed
> Debian-amd64 on it. I have been monitoring this list for the past month or
> so, before I bought the laptop, and after further extensive googling I still
> cannot find the solution.
>
> I first installed Debian 32 bit on this machine and was able to get wireless
> working flawlessly using ndiswrapper and the WinXP Broadcom drivers supplied
> with the machine. Due to the double clock speed problem and enthusiasm for
> the amd64 port, I decided to try out the 64 bit version of Debian.
> Installation was a breeze, and I am now trying to get wireless working under
> amd64 (using ndiswrapper and the 64 bit drivers).
>
> I have tried the generic Broadcom drivers from linuxant and although
> they install with ndiswrapper -i, doing an ndiswrapper -l gives:
> netbc564 driver present
> but no hardware present. iwconfig does not show any wlan0 device :-(
>
> So, I tried the acer drivers for the Broadcom 4318 chipset. Now ndiswrapper -l
> gives:
> Installed ndis drivers:
> bcmwl5 invalid driver!
Are you sure you downloaded 64-bit drivers? Try downloading again, using
the link from my page
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/Main/Compaq_Presario_v2310us
--Ken Bloom
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