ndiswrapper questions

Forum: Networking
Topic: ndiswrapper questions
started by: DAaaMan64

Posted by DAaaMan64 on Aug. 16 2006,13:31

Alright here is my situation,

I have an old laptop and a Motorola wireless card with a braodcom 4306. It will work with ndiswrapper on other distro's so in theory it should work here.

The issue is that until then, I have NO internet access. The grand old laptop doesn't even have a ethernet port.

Now I realize the amount of possible dependencies ndiswrapper probably has, and infact I don't even know if I can install it without dpkg. I looked for a myDSL extention but had no luck, at least then I could install it locally via a cd. Even though this maybe close to impossible, I would like to ask. Thank you.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 16 2006,16:04

ndiswrapper is included in the DSL by default afaik.

Posted by DAaaMan64 on Aug. 16 2006,16:46

Thank you for answering my question. I had just read that from the < change log >, I should have figured that one out on my own. Thanks.

Now all I need to do is get the right driver into ndiswrapper. I think I will add it then re-burn the iso.

Posted by surfer07 on Aug. 17 2006,08:46

Can you explain that again?
I have an old laptop (compaq presario 1200) with DSL on it.
Now i want to install a Asus WL-167g usb WLan device.
With ndiswrapper i have already installed the driver.
But what does i have to do now???