Slackware 11

pthug · 10-21-2006, 08:12 AM

Greets all,

I am having difficulty getting a broadcom wifi adapter to be picked up in slackware 11. I have gone through various steps using ndiswrapper but the problem is that the card is not evening being detected as being connected:

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$lspci
<various controllers>

No broadcom controller is listed :s

Also

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ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5a installed

Note that there is no hardware present after running this command

I am running Slackware 11 using Microsoft Virtual PC 2004.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

tangle · 10-22-2006, 12:57 AM

What kernel are you using? I have a laptop with a Broadcom 4318 and it shows. I am running the huge26 kernel.

pthug · 10-22-2006, 05:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tangle

What kernel are you using? I have a laptop with a Broadcom 4318 and it shows. I am running the huge26 kernel.

I'm using the default kernel that comes with slackware 11 - 2.4.33.3

tangle · 10-22-2006, 10:42 AM

I do not think there is support in the 2.4 kernel for the Broadcom wireless cards. Use the 2.6 kernel.

UhhMaybe · 09-11-2007, 05:37 PM

Lucky YOU...Slackware 12.0 uses the 2.6 Kernels. http://iso.linuxquestions.org/slackw...re-linux-12.0/