Slackware help
 

Hi, so i have been messing around with Slackware and I have been trying to find a driver for my wireless card. It is a Broadcom BCM4313. Do you know of any website where I can download a driver? Ive been looking through the net and I havent gotten anything. I also have ndiswrapper installed, so if you know where the zip archive is with the inf file that would also help me. Thanks!

There's an LQ thread about it.

I already tried the driver from the broadcom link and I am sorta confused with the slackbuilds. What do I need to download from slackbuilds.org for my card to work correctly? Im clueless about this and I am considering to just use an adapter.

firmware-brcm80211
http://all-things-linux.blogspot.com...reless-on.html
http://althafkbacker.blogspot.com/20...-14e44727.html

Is your os 32-bit or 64-bit?
Also there s a Readme file which I assume is for either of the 2 downloads.

32 bit

have you downloaded the 32-bit tar.gz?

From where? The broadcom website? I did and I followed the instructions and everything worked. But, I dont know what to do know. Was that the driver? If it was how do I join a network?

Isn't the network icon showing?
Click on it & it'll show available networks

I havent installed KNetworkmanager, if that is what you are referring to. I read somewhere that it isnt wise to use KNetworkmanager in Slackware, but, I could give it a shot. The only program on my taskbar that is related to networking is wicd, if that helps.

Click on it & see if networks are available

You may have to scan for networks
I think the commaand is

iwlist scan

I found out that I should be using wicd. But, it couldnt pick up any wireless networks. How do I know if my wireless card is working?
Sorry for all these questions. I have no idea what I am doing.

Oh wait, I got it! I just had the interface in wicd wrong. I put wlan0 when it should have ben eth1. Anyways, thanks for your help!