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I know that there are many posts about this. I've tried both the "hybrid" driver and the one supplied by Tempestuous. For the latter one, the .pet file gets installed "successfully" but when I want to load the module in network manager I get the message "can't find the file" or something like that. For the hybrid one the command
Code:
insmod wl.ko
returns an error saying the module is not the right format.
What am I doing wrong? Something weired which might be related to this is that when I write to my home folder I realize that it goes to
/mnt/home/home/ I thought one didn't have to mount their own home folder.
Where did you get the hybrid driver? Did you download it directly from broadcom or did you get it from some puppy repository. I am familiar with the driver not with puppy in this area.
I have had insmod not work for me too with same error message.
Try depmod from the command line and then modprobe wl.ko
Maybe you can get lucky.
You might also be able to use the windows drivers for it using ndiswrapper to load them.
I used the windows drivers with ndiswrapper for a linksys USB wireless device and it worked.
Have you tried downloading the Windows driver for it and using ndiswrapper and then selecting the inf file for it?
I know that sometimes getting wireless devices to work is a real pain.
But the driver should have an inf file if you downloaded the one for windows. You select it instead of the sys file.
jrb in the puppy forum; hardware>networking has a remastered 4.3.1
iso available with a working wireless module in network wizard for
lenovo s10. No ndiswrapper required.
I downloaded the hybrid driver from Broadcom. The windows driver does not have the right extension(!) The extension was ".sys" I think.
Huh? Download the Linux driver on the broadcom site. You have to compile it tho, so you will need to have more then what puppy comes with by default. If you want I can email you a good wl.ko that should work if you are using a recent kernel. If not then you may need to grab gcc and the kernel sources to be able to compile it.
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