2Wire PC Card Wireless Adapter Help

Nylex · 05-29-2006, 01:39 AM

Actually, it's probably best if you listen to beagle2, I didn't see the posts about rpm.pbone.net earlier, so just assumed you couldn't get NdisWrapper from your CDs.

ananke · 05-29-2006, 01:46 AM

I've got the RPM installed. Does that mean NdisWrapper is already ready to go and all I need to worry about now is the Windows driver, or what?

beagle2 · 05-29-2006, 01:47 AM

Should be, type ndiswrapper -l and see what you get.

ananke · 05-29-2006, 01:51 AM

I'd like to install the Windows driver first, but I'm not quite sure how to get to the .inf file like in the NdisWrapper Installation guide. It just says to unpack it and find the INF file, then install the file with ndiswrapper -i filename.inf

beagle2 · 05-29-2006, 02:01 AM

Ok, I meant type ndiswrapper -l just to see if it worked. Just get hold of the driver indicated in the guide, extract all the files into a folder like /home/ananke/driver and install ndiswrapper -i /home/ananke/driver/(driver).inf . Then try ndiswrapper -l again - should see driver hardware present.

ananke · 05-29-2006, 02:13 AM

I'm having a little trouble unzipping the .exe file. What's the command line?

beagle2 · 05-29-2006, 02:14 AM

Which driver are you trying to get - .exe is windows executable file, no use here Im afraid.

ananke · 05-29-2006, 02:16 AM

I got it from the list on the NdisWrapper Wiki. I'm pretty sure they're all .exe

ananke · 05-29-2006, 02:24 AM

Okay nevermind... I got the stuff unzipped, but ndiswrapper -l is still giving me "bcmwl5 invalid driver!"

beagle2 · 05-29-2006, 02:27 AM

If it is an .exe then you will have to run it on windows machine then look for the .inf files. Your driver may be the one that comes from acer - its a zip file so unzip filename.zip
to extract.

Ok just what it say - double check the pciid as per the install windows driver section of the ndiswrapper wiki that you have the correct driver. Other than that there are plenty of posts about the broadcom driver so have a search on the forums.

ananke · 05-29-2006, 02:34 AM

Did that, and since there were no instructions on which of the three INF files (autorun.inf, bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5a.inf) to use, I tried bcmwl5 first. Apparently it doesn't work. bcmwl5a couldn't be copied, and ndiswrapper -l says it's invalid.
My PCIID is 14e4:4320 (rev 3). Any other drivers that are known to work?

Nylex · 05-29-2006, 02:38 AM

Try this one, as I think that's the one I used and my PCI ID is the same as yours.

ananke · 05-29-2006, 02:39 AM

That's the one I got. Which INF did you use?

Nylex · 05-29-2006, 02:41 AM

I used bcmwl5.inf. Maybe check the NdisWrapper list for other cards matching your PCI ID and see what other drivers there are.

ananke · 05-29-2006, 02:56 AM

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf gets me this message:

Code:

Installing bcmwl5.inf
cp: cannot stat `bcmwl5.inf': No such file or directory.

Even though I just unzipped it and it's right there on the screen...