bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl564.sys (its dumb, but i can't find them anywhere)
Alright so im pretty new, but im catching on as fast as i can
My problem is setting up ndiswrapper on my openSuSE 10.3 i couldnt even get lspci to bring up anything about my wireless card but research tells me its a Broadcom Dell 1390 mini-pci they put in my compaq presario v6000 i have wired connection right now i would like someone with experience with ndiswrapper to let me know how i add the .inf and .sys files on my computer to install on ndiswrapper im in no big hurry..and i may figure it out within a few days, but i still like the assurance of someone who know more about it than me :)Broadcom Dell 1390 mini-pci ps also if you know anything about installing an nVidia graphics card on here it would be helpful to know some about it, i haven't looked into it at all yet, not until i get wireless again (i tried to be descriptive but its late and im about to retire for the night, anything you need to know just ask and my personal email is jw_90@hotmail.com) -Jiminy Cricket |
could you post the output of
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lspci -v do you still have windows installed on the laptop? that may well be the easiest way to bring them over. however, i looked up the card on the ndiswrapper wiki, and it points to http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...os=228&lang=en from there you would run Code:
cabextract should extract a directory with lots of nice files. from there, run Code:
ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf |
Here's what i got for lspci -v
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I don't have windows still installed, but I could talk to my sister and see if she would email me the drivers, her laptop was identical when we bought them. And if that doesn't work i will get the one u pointed out and try it. |
Alright i have the driver installed on ndiswrapper
and followed a tutorial to configure the card in YaST It looks like someone made an edit after the tutorial and they have the same laptop and driver as me and said they also used the bcmwl564.sys file to get their wireless working ...never mind me explaining it here is the tutorial i followed Quote:
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ah... I think I may see part of the problem. I apologize -- My original post was written really quickly, and is probably confusing.
You don't want to run ndiswrapper -i on the SYS file.... you need to run it on the INF file. Better? :-D So, lets see if we need to remove a driver now. First, run Code:
ndiswrapper -l Use Code:
ndiswrapper -r drivername Now, we need to install the right driver. Code:
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf Code:
ndiswrapper -l Code:
ndiswrapper -m Code:
rmmod ndiswrapper Now, try to set up your wireless. I would recommend using the tools described in you prior post, if you like. Is that a little clearer? Best of luck! --Andrew |
Oh no, it wasnt your post that confused me, it was that tutorial
where some one had said I had to use ndiswrapper with bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl564.sys (available as the self-extracting R151517.EXE file from the Dell download centre) driver files for that. And I had read before that I need to remove the drivers that come back invalid, so I had done that, now I think it is not the right driver for my laptop?? maybe a different choice of what wireless card I could get when I bought the laptop, I really didn't know as much about computer's when I bought this...but anyway, to get to the point, I am under Ubuntu Gutsy at the moment, and got wireless working again...maybe not for good, but at the moment it is working from the bcm43xx chipset When i type in lspci -v it brings back my wireless (FINALLY) :) Quote:
however, if u know why it might not show up every time in the restricted driver's that Gutsy provides, and know how I might fix that problem it might be easier...maybe a problem with the default network controller. Thanks for making sure every thing was clear by the way :) a week ago I would have been quite confused already -John |
Hmmm.... is it _still_ showing up only half the time?
I'm really not sure what to tell you there. If you can verify that sometimes it shows up and other times it doesnt, you may want to repost that specific problem. Thats a little strange. But, I'm glad you're getting it working with the bcm43xx driver. I've actually never had any luck with that one, so more power to ya! |
Lol, well that makes me feel a bit better...yeah it's still only working half the time, but I think I can deal with that for awhile, I decided Im gonna save up and get one of the new alienware laptop's, what do you think about the Intel wireless cards working in Linux, thanks for all the help, I might try ndiswrapper again, but Im not too concerned with this laptop anymore.
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You could be getting a conflict with the native bcm43xx driver and ndiswrapper. If using ndiswrapper you need to be sure you blacklist the bcm43xx driver so it isn't loaded otherwise it can create problems with ndiswrapper.
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I'll keep that in mind though, I might try ndiswrapper on Ubuntu if my wireless quits again...it still works sometimes (there doesn't seem to be a reason, but sometimes when I start up my computer it will already be on before I log in, and then it will stay on until I restart, then you have to restart once or twice before it will work again) |
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