Networking :: Broadcom native works with Puppy not with DSL?
I tried to configure my wireless card with ndiswrapper, but no go.
When I did lspci, no broadcom card was detected (mine is usually declared as a 4306). I sought the info after booting with another distribution and the pci id was stated to be 00:0c.0 with the other info being 14e4:4320. I used this to try to identify the drivers that ndiswrapper recommended, but it was a tad confusing.
When running in Windows, I replaced the original Broadcom driver and inf because of a "serious" exploit possible with that version (v. 3.30.15.5) by downloading and installing a broadcom driver from the Linksys site (v. 4.100.15.5).
It is possible that this driver doesn't work with ndiswrapper; I didn't see any information about this.
However, when I tried to configure the driver using your miniscript, starting with sudo cat /opt/myndis.sh, the response was invalid no such file.
Later, after trying to configure with the ndiswrapper button in the DSL panel, I noted that there was an myndis file in the /ramdisk/home/dsl directory which contained the script you mentioned. However, ndiswrapper reported that the connection failed.
I appreciate further suggestions and will be happy to try the older driver if that seems likely to work better.
Steve
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However, when I tried to configure the driver using your miniscript, starting with sudo cat /opt/myndis.sh, the response was invalid no such file.
- that's because I made the file myself. I have two, this one and another without the WEP code that I use to connect in airports, etc.
I'm not sure if you realised this already, but you need both driver files - the *.inf and the *.sys for ndiswrapper to work. I remember that I had to try several drivers before I found one that would work (even though they all worked with winxp). I also found that it is better to reboot after each failed attempt - at least until you're sure you have a working driver.
Maybe the ndiswrapper site is the best place to start - they have many links to drivers for many different cards, see here for the list starting with "b"I placed the .inf and the .sys files in the same directory as the instructions state (somewhere <g>) and put the path to the directory in the ndiswrapper window, which then constructed a myndis file whose contents matched the one you constructed manually.
Sure, it is possible that another .sys and .inf combo will work.
I will give it a try as I have time.
BTW, do you have a version, revision number, date and size for the .inf and .sys files that worked for you? I am curious; the listing at Ndiswrapper is kind of confusing - the one I saw was a serious of anecdotes. There is another listing that has a recommended list by item (such as manufacturer and model of laptop or card).
Interestingly (or not) the same driver worked for my previous card (Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI Card) as for this card (Dell Wireless 1450 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card) - both made by BroadcomThanks.