Hello. I have been a lurker for awhile; my buddy and myself dove into Slackware about a year ago as our first distribution. Thus far, we have rarely had any issues. Recently I have come to possess a
Dell Latitude D630. Being a laptop, I have come to require the proper utilization of wireless; more specifically RSN / WPA2.
From my understanding, I have two internet controllers. I ran
lspci -v and from the assortment of devices listed I discovered the following:
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09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f9 Memory at fe7f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data <?> Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information <?> Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Iterrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?> Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?> Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number c8-82-35-fe-ff-23-1c-00 Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?> Kernel driver in use: tg3 Kernel modules: tg3
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-card Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Memory at fe8fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information <?> Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?> Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?> Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 1e-00-c0-ff-ff-4c-f3-9b Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?> Kernel driver in use: ndiswrapper Kernel modules: ssb
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Do however note that I ran this command after executing the commands that follow. If what I read from
lspci -v was augmented by the following commands, please inform me how to begin anew.
First I downloaded the ndiswrapper SlackBuild from:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...k/ndiswrapper/
I extracted the tar.gz to my desktop, moved the ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz to the ndiswrapper directory and executed ndiswrapper.SlackBuild from the teminal. This script moved a package to the /tmp directory. I installed the package from the aforementioned directory.
I then downloaded R151519.EXE from:
http://support.dell.com/support/topi...up&file=202138
Do note that the following page may be used to access recommended drivers from the Dell website:
http://support.dell.com/support/down...&catid=&impid=
I ran this self extracting executable on my main rig and copied
bcmwl5.inf and
bcmwl5.sys to a thumb drive which I then copied to
/etc/ndiswrapper on the
Dell Latitude D630
I then executed the following:
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sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo mousepad /etc/modules
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By which I added "ndiswrapper" to the file, no quotes. The file was blank.
My wpa_supplicant.conf follows:
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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={priority=1 ssid="vader" scan_ssid=1 proto=RSN key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=CCMP TKIP #group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40 psk="*******" }
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Lastly I execute the following in the terminal:
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cd /var/run/wpa_supplicant
rm -rf wlan0
wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dndiswrapper -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd -D
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-Thanks
Postscript: I have also come across this:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
But haven't a clue as to how to compile it. I have read the readme mind you.
