Thread: [Ndiswrapper-general] ndiswrapper-0.7, Broadcomm 54g, and Fedora Core 2
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From: J. D. B. <br...@cs...> - 2004-05-22 22:54:37
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I have a HP compaq nx9010 portable with a Broadcomm BCM94306 802.11g miniPCI wireless interface. When I ran Fedora Core 1, the interface worked using ndiswrapper-0.4 and some broadcomm drivers I'd obtained off the net. Alas, I've forgotten exactly where I obtained those drivers, but they were downloaded in a file called bcom_linux_install2.tar. When I installed Fedora Core 2 on my system, I also upgraded to ndiswrapper-0.7. I used the same drivers and followed the ndiswrapper instructions (running ndiswrapper -i), but couldn't get the Broadcomm to work. I could get the message kernel: ndiswrapper version 0.7 loaded in my logs and when I ran "ndiswrapper -l" it would proclaim "bcmwl5 present", but running "modprobe ndiswrapper" would not find the device. I also downloaded the second driver listed for the Broadcomm 94306 on the "supported chipsets" page. I deleted the old driver and installed this one, but had the same problem. Rather than try the first driver (the one from Dell), I went to HP's web site and downloaded there Broadcomm driver. They call this Softpaq SP23085a. I extract the files of SP23085a under Windows XP. This gave me a directory with two .inf files: bcmwl5a.inf ( 21905 bytes) bcmwl5.inf (279318 bytes) I ran "ndiswrapper -i" with the smaller bcmwl15a.inf file. Then the Broadcomm worked for me. Here's some of my lspci output: /sbin/lspci 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02) /sbin/lspci -n 00:09.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 02) |
From: Paul W. <pwi...@pb...> - 2004-05-23 01:46:31
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On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 18:54, J. Dean Brock wrote: > I have a HP compaq nx9010 portable with a Broadcomm BCM94306 802.11g > miniPCI wireless interface. > > When I ran Fedora Core 1, the interface worked using ndiswrapper-0.4 > and some broadcomm drivers I'd obtained off the net. Alas, I've > forgotten exactly where I obtained those drivers, but they were > downloaded in a file called bcom_linux_install2.tar. > > When I installed Fedora Core 2 on my system, I also upgraded > to ndiswrapper-0.7. I used the same drivers and followed > the ndiswrapper instructions (running ndiswrapper -i), > but couldn't get the Broadcomm to work. > > I could get the message > kernel: ndiswrapper version 0.7 loaded > in my logs and when I ran "ndiswrapper -l" it would proclaim > "bcmwl5 present", but running "modprobe ndiswrapper" would > not find the device. > > I also downloaded the second driver listed for the Broadcomm 94306 > on the "supported chipsets" page. I deleted the old driver > and installed this one, but had the same problem. > > Rather than try the first driver (the one from Dell), I went > to HP's web site and downloaded there Broadcomm driver. > They call this Softpaq SP23085a. > > I extract the files of SP23085a under Windows XP. > This gave me a directory with two .inf files: > bcmwl5a.inf ( 21905 bytes) > bcmwl5.inf (279318 bytes) > > I ran "ndiswrapper -i" with the smaller bcmwl15a.inf file. > > Then the Broadcomm worked for me. > > Here's some of my lspci output: > > /sbin/lspci > 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02) > > /sbin/lspci -n > 00:09.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 02) My recently purchased Averatec 3225HS also has this broadcom chipset and the driver Averatec provides also comes with that bcmwl15a.inf file. However I could not get ndiswrapper 0.7 to make this driver work under my 2.4.26 kernel. Instead, I fell back to the 0.4 version of ndiswrapper and have been a happy camper since then. If anyone has suggestions for some tests to run or debugging information they need on the 0.7 version I'd be happy to help out. PaulW |