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    wireless & linux

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by merlin666, May 5, 2005.

  1. merlin666

    merlin666 Notebook Consultant

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    I have just installed Fedora Core 3 (64bit) on my Emachines M6811, and as expected the wireless (broadcom internal) is not working. I have read about ndiswrapper elsewhere in this forum but I'm not sure how to go about it as I'm a linux newbie. Any links to decent guides on how to set this up will be appreciated.
     
    merlin666, May 5, 2005
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  2. olyteddy

    olyteddy Notebook Deity

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    There may be a driver over at http://www.planetamd64.com/.

    First PC = Vic-20, 8" 128KB Home-Brew Floppy Drive ... Current Rig = eMachines m6805 ... Quantum Leap?
     
    olyteddy, May 5, 2005
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  3. DimGR

    DimGR Notebook Enthusiast

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    first set up ndiswrapper
    then


    You need the windows driver for your wlan card.
    cd /windowsdriver
    ndiswrapper -i filename.inf
    modprobe ndiswrapper
    and to make it load after every boot echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules-2.6.10 or whatever kernel version you have


    update-modules


    iwlist wlan0 scan


    then

    iwconfig wlan0 essid youressid key yourkey

    /sbin/dhclient wlan0 or pump -i wlan0


    Linux rocks![ ;)]
     
    DimGR, May 7, 2005
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  4. DimGR

    DimGR Notebook Enthusiast

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    forgot to say this


    unzip driver.exe -d /home/user/wlan
    cd /windriver


    then follow my instructions
     
    DimGR, May 9, 2005
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