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finding wireless driver

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:25 am
by raghavan20
I have a Dell D400.

The PCI card is: Dell 1350 miniPCI card
The chip: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g

I have tried using R90501.Exe from
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/medi ... x.php/List

but it does not seem to work after I do dmesg | grep ndiswrapper

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ndiswrapper: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
ndiswrapper version 1.16 loaded(preempt=no,smp=no)
I do not see anything like this which should have happened

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ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,02/10/2005, 3.100.35.1) loaded
so I guess there might be an error choosing the right driver?

The procedure I followed to make wireless card work is
http://www.htpcnews.com/index.php?optio ... &Itemid=71

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:00 am
by akimm
if you have no luck here, try ubuntu, it has great wireless compatibility.

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:33 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Which distro are you running?

Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:28 am
by raghavan20
fedora core 5 everah

Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:07 am
by RobertGonzalez
Sorry bro, I have heard nothing but wailing and gnashing of teeth when it comes to getting wireless to work with on FC distros.

Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:14 am
by raghavan20
Everah wrote:Sorry bro, I have heard nothing but wailing and gnashing of teeth when it comes to getting wireless to work with on FC distros.
i know :cry:

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:04 am
by ibbo
Try the fedora forums, theres plenty of threads on wireless setup and troubleshooting

http://forums.fedoraforum.org

ibbo

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:06 am
by RobertGonzalez
Its been about six months since I tried this with Fedora Core 4. I do remember ndiswrapper. But I also remember a very limited set of hardware devices that would work on FC with ndiswrapper.