Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected
Odd.
I thought I had posted this to debian-laptop, but it went to debian-user
instead. Must have been tired. Anyway:
* John Wesley Cooper <jwesleycooper@cox.net> [2009-03-12 19:41:34 -0700]:
> I haven't quite gotten it fixed, but I have managed to successfully set up a
> ndiswrapper kernel! Now all would appear to need is a driver...
I thought I pointed you to a driver that you wouldn't have to install
from a softpac first. Hence the instruction to download the Dell
driver. It doesn't need to be prior installed by Windows or Wine.
You just move it to a working directory and unzip it, then move to the
resulting DRIVER directory, and ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
Like so:
download from here:
http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.exe
and copy that file into your home directory and do:
unzip R151517.exe
which will decompress the file. If it doesn't work, you need the unzip
utility: apt-get install unzip
after you have that file unpacked, a new directory will have been
created: DRIVER
move into that directory:
cd DRIVER
and as root, do
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
you can see what's in any directory you're in with with the 'ls'
command as so:
dave@gecko:~/Downloads/DRIVER$ ls
bcm43xx64.cat bcm43xx.cat bcmwl564.sys bcmwl5.inf bcmwl5.sys
Installing wine to get a simple driver to work seems IMHO to bit of
overkill, and the Dell drivers seem to be a bit more complete in my
experience, unless you really need the Compaq/HP stuff (I never have,
but some machines can hiccup).
--
Dave
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