<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Not being particularly saavy I was not able to get ndiswrapper working with the generic instructions provided and went to a few other sites to cobble the information together to get the wireless magic to work... Though I suppose it probably makes sense not to get too detailed and then clutter up the wiki with misc. mumbo jumbo. <br><br>Here was the draft I created - <br><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">For the Dell D830 with the Dell
Wireless 1390/1395 cards that are recognized (using lspci -vnn) as
Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controllers.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The B43 driver and fwcutter application
will not work. You may find ndiswrapper more suitable.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">yum install wine</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">yum install ndiswrapper</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">(1) mkdir /ndiswrapper_drivers<br>(2)
cd /ndiswrapper_drivers<br>(3) wget
<a href="http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R174291.exe" target="_blank">http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R174291.exe</a>
<br>(4) wine R174291.exe<br>(5) Specify the location where it is
going to be installed preferrably /ndiswrapper_drivers<br>(6) cd
DRIVER<br>(7) Assuming that you have already ndiswrapper
installed:<br>ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf<br>(8) ndiswrapper -l (to
check if its installed)<br>you should get an output similar to
this<br>bcmwl5 : driver installed<br>device (14E4:4315) present<br>(9)
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper<br>(10) now i suggest you restart you
computer<br>(12) And then you can enable NetworkManager to use it.</p>
<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 12/31/08, Dag Wieers <i><dag@centos.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Dag Wieers <dag@centos.org><br>Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki - Wireless Network with ndiswrapper<br>To: "Mail list for wiki articles" <centos-docs@centos.org><br>Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 7:12 PM<br><br><pre>On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, robert pierson wrote:<br><br>> I have created my own documentation to get the wireless adapters on my<br>laptops to work with ndiswrapper. It might be useful to have this posted to<br>the Network section of the How To or Tips and Tricks...<br><br>I tried to bring together all wireless solutions/issues here:<br><br> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless<br><br>Admittedly, this page could use some help (and an addition for the newer<br>iwlwifi and iwlagn drivers in CentOS 5.3 when it
arrives).<br><br>-- -- dag wieers, dag@centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ --<br>[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]</pre><pre>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS-docs mailing list<br>CentOS-docs@centos.org<br>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>