Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610
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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