John Lange wrote:

I recently acquired an HP MiniNote 1010NR that came with XP. I knew it would be a nightmare to get working with Linux because it has a broadcom wireless adapter and I've gone down that path before without much luck.

Broadcom claims to have a semi-proprietory linux driver but it won't compile for me.

The next obvious choice is ndiswrapper. I've loaded the driver into ndiswrapper:

# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

and it seems to work and recognize the device:

# ndiswrapper -l bcmwl5: driver installed device (14E4:4325) present

and now load ndiswrapper module?

# modprobe ndiswrapper

which seems to work and generates a lot of output in dmesg that looks good (but which I don't feel like retyping) but the gist of it is:

ndiswrapper version 1.53 loaded ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,03/21/2008, 4.170.77.3) loaded ..(some other stuff).. ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

Network manager seems to think there is a wireless network device but it doesn't see any wireless access points to connect to and the little blue light on the front that normally shows wireless (at least under XP) stays orange.

So what have I missed?

One other minor detail; ndiswrapper does not load at boot time even though there is a /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper file. Is there a trick to making that work as well?

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John Lange wrote:

I recently acquired an HP MiniNote 1010NR that came with XP. I knew it would be a nightmare to get working with Linux because it has a broadcom wireless adapter and I've gone down that path before without much luck.

Broadcom claims to have a semi-proprietory linux driver but it won't compile for me.

The next obvious choice is ndiswrapper. I've loaded the driver into ndiswrapper:

# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

and it seems to work and recognize the device:

# ndiswrapper -l bcmwl5: driver installed device (14E4:4325) present

and now load ndiswrapper module?

# modprobe ndiswrapper

I have a problem same with You, But Now Problem is Solved. I change module in Yast2>Network Devices. Default module for wireless is ssb. I change it with typing "ndiswrapper". Now, My Wireless can be surfing in Internet. :D Regards Firdaus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org