Suse 10, Wireless card problems
 

Wireless card output from lspci:

02:06.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

Output from lspci -n:
02:06.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03)

I am trying to install my wireless card using DriverLoader. I have the *.INF files and the *.SYS files but it cannot detect my card. When I use windows, i have to push a button on my case to turn the card on, but it won't turn on when I use linux .Any thoughts?

Suse 10.0
Kernal 2.6.13-15.7-default

That's a fairly common chip and well supported by ndiswrapper. You might have more luck using that than DriverLoader. It works in the same manner by providing the .inf file from the Windows driver.

Ok, So i got NDISWrapper installed and it seems to be working properly.
I downloaded the driver EXE from the manufactures webstie and the WIKI list as well.
I installed the *.inf files downloaded from the WIKI (bcmwl5.inf then bcmwl15a.inf). They seemed to install with out error. When I ran ndiswrapper -l the drivers came back with nad invalid driver error.
So I decided to give the downloaded exe a try. I extracted and ran it with wine. Wine came back with plenty of errors, which I was expecting, but still extracted all the files. Problem is, in the file there are no INF files. There are SYS files, INI files and INF files though. So I decided I would try to install using the SYS files. once installed, they came back with the same error:

linux:~ # ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!
bcmwl5.sys invalid driver!
bcmwl5a invalid driver!
bcmwlntp.sys invalid driver!
linux:~ #

So I am thinking that it has to do with the card not being turned on still. So I opened each of the *.conf files and switched the RadioState to 1 which still did not turn on the card. Any other ideas?