Greetings....

I recently found out about ndiswrapper and compiled it on madrake 10 official and an Alienware area51 labtop
for my Buffalo AirStation WLI-CB-G54A

I did the following things:

1) unistall the version that comes with mandrake
2) Downloaded my 2.3.6-7 sources
2) compiled the new version from the ndiswrapper site
3) runed lspcidrake got this information

unknown : Broadcom Corporation|BCM94306 802.11g NIC [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:14e4 device:4320 subv:1154 subd:0324)

4) looked for the corresponding drivers on the manufacturer website
( buffalotech )

5) Downloaded also the drivers on the ndiswrapper chipset compatability site
I got 4 posible drivers matches with the information lspcidrake returned from
this are the oned listed under
Broadcom 4309
Broadcom 94306

two of the were exe so i dicompresed them as zip.. ( to my atonishment it worked )

6) Proceded to try every single *.inf file i could find there one at a time

ndiswrapper -i ............

mainly i got to answers when i tried ndiswrapper -l

the first one was an PERL error saying something about an ARRAY and USING STRICT

the second one was the name of the driver but never a present substring

Can anyone shed some light into what to do??????

Thanks in advanced

Since you got it from Alienware, I am guessing that you have a dual boot with XP. Is so, try going to your c:\windows\system32 directory and looking for the drivers you need. For my integrated broadcom card (I'm pretty sure it's the same one you have) they are something like bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys. I had better luck with the drivers in this folder than those off the web. Another thing I have read is that the 0.5-0.7 versions of ndiswrapper have trouble with this broadcom NIC. I used 0.4 and it works for me, haven't tried the 0.8 version yet.

Yeah..i have a dual boot.... but the drivers windows have i downloaded from the net.....
the same ones i tried in linux.... so they don't work.....

i am going to try to go back to 0.4 hopefully that will work..... Thanks

you have a bad install of ndiswrapper if you get that message.... my suggestion:

Do a search for and manually delete any and every file pertaining to ndiswrapper, start with make uninstall from the source directory.... then use either find or locate to find every file pertianing once again to ndiswrapper.. double and trible check that the ndiswrapper.rpm is removed as well.

re-run setup and try again.

Hi.

I've managed to get the same Broadcom BCM94360 802.11g wireless card working under Suse 9.1 Personal.

Have a look here.

- also, I'm trying to figure out how to execute a shell script that enables the NDISWRAPPER module between the NETWORK and the wireless card on startup, see
this Suse forums post (@ the 3rd page)
- any help would be appreciated