[gentoo-user] how to change drivers?

[gentoo-user] how to change drivers?

[Fernando Meira]

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Hi,
I have a Linksys WPC54G wireless card - Network controller: Broadcom
Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
and I been using Ndiswrapper with no problems. The thing is that I can't use
kismet with windoze drivers.. so, I've heard that I could use Orinoco driver
with this card, though I found in many sites that with Broadcom chips the
only way was Windoze drivers! If I knew this detail before, I'd never have
bought this bloody card...

However, if I load orinico instead ndiswrapper, when I try to use the card,
ndiswrapper is loaded automatically... so, how can I make my card use
Orinoco drivers? Or am I just going for something hopeless here?

Thanks!
Fernando

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to change drivers?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:56:45 +0100, Fernando Meira wrote:

> I have a Linksys WPC54G wireless card - Network controller: Broadcom
> Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
> and I been using Ndiswrapper with no problems. The thing is that I
> can't use kismet with windoze drivers.. so, I've heard that I could use
> Orinoco driver with this card, though I found in many sites that with
> Broadcom chips the only way was Windoze drivers!

It is. The information needed to write a driver for this chip is not
available, and probably never will be. There is some work on
reverse-engineering a driver, but it is far from complete.


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Neil Bothwick

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