I have a Compaq presario 2195 laptop which comes with broadcom 9306 802.11g wireless card. I installed knoppix on my hard disk and as expected it could not detect the wireless card.
I downloaded the ndiswrapper 0.4 and the broadcom drivers from the HP site (though the link given on ndisrapper website). I followed the instructions of ndiswrapper and everything compiled properly.
But when I do a ifconfig wlan0 up, the system hangs
I think that this may be due to the fact that the driver for broadcom 9306 has two sys files "bcmwl5.sys" and "bcmwlntp.sys" and two inf files "bcmwl5.inf" and "bcmwl5a.inf". The instructions for ndiswrapper only explain how to load the driver with one sys and one inf file.
At the moment I am doing
Code:
$modprobe ndiswrapper
followed by
Code:
$ /usr/sbin/loadndisdriver 14e4 4320 /lib/windriver/bcmwl5.sys /lib/windriver/bcmwl5.inf
and
Code:
$iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
$ifconfig wlan0 up
and after about half a minulte the system hangs.
I think that the problem is coming as I do not load all the sys and inf files. How do I do that?
Has anyone has tried using ndiswrapped on a similar configration?
Thanks
aditya
