Linux Laptop

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thursday 04 May 2006 8:27 am, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> So; to get working wifi under linux, you need to pay a $50 HP premium.
> The broadcom option (the default) does not work if you get a recent model
> nx6125: 1. broadcom does not release linux drivers
> 2. broadcom does not release 64-bit drivers
> 3. so ndiswrapper + asus windows drivers is the way forward
> 4. there are no asus drivers yet for the newest revisions of the card
This is crap.
I obtained the Broadcom 64-bit driver.
Installed ndiswrapper from the SuSE DVD.
I had a minor difficulty with the 64-bit driver in that I missed a step. 
Once I found my issue, the 64-bit driver came right up. I used it at the 
last BLU meeting. No extra cards.
The steps were:
Install the ndiswrapper module. SuSE 10.0 did not have the binary on the 
distro, but did supply the kernel sources. 
As root:
1. ndiswrapper -i # ndiswrapper -i 
2. (optional) ndiswrapper -d 14e4,4319 bcmwl5
3. ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
4. modprobe ndiwwrapper
Then  check dmesg to make sure everything got installed ok:
ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
ndiswrapper: using irq 217
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:14:a5:4d:9e:40 using driver bcmwl5, 
configuration file 14E4:4319.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

Note for step #2. 
Some of the drivers can figure out the correct pciid, but the 64-bit driver 
I had could not. 
If you do not know the pciid of the chip, then run 
 lspci:
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4319 (rev 
02)
This shows me the chip.
The run pcitweak -l:
PCI: 02:02:0: chip 14e4,4319 card 103c,1358 rev 02 class 02,80,00 hdr 00

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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