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Old 01-23-2010, 06:54 PM   #1
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BCM4318 driver for 64 bit version


I have just installed Slackware 13.0 64 bit on my laptop. I am trying to get my wireless card (Broadcom BCM4318) to work. I have searched the forum and found a lot of people having problems but none of the solutions have worked for me. It is dual boot with Windows XP 32 bit. I tried the ndiswrapper and everything seemed to go okay but when I ran ndiswrapper -l it said it was the wrong driver. Then I realized I was using the 32 bit driver from my windows install. Duh!! Is there a 64 bit driver available. I can't seem to find one. I have searched the broadcom site but I guess this is too old for them to support. So far google hasn't found anything for me either. I figured it was time to ask for help.

I previously used Zenwalk 32 bit on the laptop and ndiswrapper worked great.

Should I be able to find a 64 bit driver or can I get the 32 bit to work? Do I need to go back to a 32 bit OS?

john

Disregard please, I found the proper driver using google, downloaded, installed with ndiswrapper, rebooted and everything works. It connected automatically.

Last edited by jbs1136; 01-23-2010 at 07:25 PM. Reason: Solved
 
Old 10-27-2010, 07:17 AM   #2
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