Networking :: Broadcom native works with Puppy not with DSL?

Do the same as I do and wait for DSL 5

Until then, you can try Knoppix 5 as well.
But currently, there is no perfect system.

Knoppix 5 has a superb automatic hardware support but is too big and there is unfortunately no small version available yet.
DSL 3 and DSL 4 have less hardware support due to the 2.4.x kernel.

I want to use wireless now and I would like to use DSL, if for no other reason that I like many things about it and would like to use it to increase my linux user skills.

I would appreciate any comments from people who have used the ndiswrapper tool in the latest version of DSL (as of this writing, 4.0 RC3), about ease of use and pitfalls. (I have trolled the fora here but haven't seen a discussion of this.)

Thanks in advance.

Steve

I always hope, that there is a pre-pre-pre-pre version of DSL 5 with a 2.6.x kernel available, but unfortunately this could take further months

And nobody of the experts want to release a current DSL version with a 2.6.x kernel.

What a pity!
Let's wait for further days/weeks/months ..

I have the following Broadcom wireless device:

Code Sample

$ lspdi
0000:01:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 03)

This works with ndiswrapper and the winxp driver bcmwl5.sys and bcmwl5a.inf and the following mini-script:

Code Sample

$ sudo cat /opt/myndis.sh
#!/bin/bash
#
/usr/local/bin/ndiswrapper.sh /mnt/sda1/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5a.inf wlan0 essid 11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99:AA:BB:CC:DD 2>&1 >/dev/null
# EOF

Thanks; is this with the newest version of DSL (4.0 rc3) or a custom version based or...?

I will try this the next time I boot up the DSL live CD.

Steve

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