How to set up wireless on Linux

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 18 13:58:43 UTC 2005


On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:39:32AM -0400, Steven Nagy wrote:
> I have a problem configuring my wireless under Suse Linux Pro 9.1 on my
> laptop. I tried to search for drivers on the internet and I didn't find
> anything for Linux. I found that usually companies don't provide drivers for
> Linux. I also searched www.driverguide.com <http://www.driverguide.com/>
> without any success.
> 
> My laptop is Compaq Presario R3000 with a wireless card of "Broadcom 54g
> MaxPerformance 802.11g"
> 
> I don't know either if I would find the good driver, how should I install it
> under Linux.

For that one you need to use ndiswrapper and the broadcom driver from
windows.  Broadcom sucks that way (as do many other wireless chip
vendors).

Fortunately you can even run the 64bit windows driver for that chipset
too in the same way.

Lennart Sorensen
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