Broadcom wireless on Debian Testing, Trying NDISWrapper

[Tyler Aviss]

What's your laptop? Normally I just download the appropriate XP
driver, extract, and then

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf (or whatever inf file applies)

You'll need the ndiswrapper userland, as well as wireless stuff, installed.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:55 PM, JoeHill<joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Aviss,Tyler wrote:
>
>>  From what I remember, You should only use one or the other of "b43"
>> or "b43legacy."
>>
>> Also, I'd have to check your particular card, but from my experience
>> the b43 drivers don't often support the 802.11N cards. My coworkers N
>> card requires ndiswrapper, and mine works with the closed "wl" driver
>> that broadcomm themselves maintain (similar to the nvidia/ATI binary
>> blob drivers for video)
>>
>> I can check further when I get home and at my laptop if you'd like
>
> I've just been reading some information that says the same thing, that the card
> I have needs ndiswrapper. I am trying to follow this page, but the page that
> should show me the right driver to download has no entry for the b4328:
>
> http://www.burnthesorbonne.com/ndiswrapper/b.html
>
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