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?
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