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Posted: Mar. 02 2008,07:06 QUOTE
I'm using the following broadcom wireless device with dsl-4.2.5 and ndiswrapper without problems:
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Board: Dell Wireless 1450 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card
Chipset: BCM 4309
$ dmesg
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ndiswrapper version 1.14 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5a (Broadcom,10/20/2004, 3.70.22.0) loaded
ndiswrapper: using irq 7
wlan0: vendor: ''
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0b:7d:29:43:f6 using driver bcmwl5a, 14E4:4324.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA
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Posted: Mar. 03 2008,01:15 QUOTE
It ended up being my own stupid mistake. I have a folder with the needed files and I believe I have been using bcmwl5.inf instead of bcmwl5a.inf. I just noticed this after reading your post Juanito. Thanks for bringing this to my attention and sorry for the disruption.
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