On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:05:15 +0000
Sudhir
I have a HP laptop, model dv5000. I cannot get the wireless chip, which is manufactured by HP, to work using ndiswrapper or the opensource drivers.
Has anyone got any practical advice on how make this chip work under SuSE 10.3?
for business reasons my HP laptop is now running Ubuntu, but here is
what I did was to use bcm43xx-fwcutter to extract the firmware from a
windows version of the .sys file. bcm43xx-fwcutter has an install
option. I also had this running on SuSE 10.2 before I had to change to
ubuntu. The firmware is installed in /lib/firmware (or in a modules
subdirectory).
you can use dmesg to see the error messages when the driver tries to
load the firmware. (dmesg -c clears the message queue).
Additionally, the bcm43xx driver essentially prevents ndiswrapper from
working.
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Jerry Feldman