From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EMcoL-0000pc-C8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 02:45:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j942amM7000903; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 02:36:48 GMT Received: from SMTP02.INFOAVE.NET (smtp02.infoave.net [165.166.0.27]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j942XAbO002719 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 02:33:10 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([206.74.80.57]) by SMTP00.InfoAve.Net (PMDF V6.2-X31 #30772) with ESMTP id <01LTRWZJVQ8E9X442L@SMTP00.InfoAve.Net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:41:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:41:02 -0400 From: Steve Brenneis Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install In-reply-to: <1127880166.17121.3.camel@localhost> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4341EBBE.6090100@surry.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050908 References: <1127824801.18143.3.camel@bunyip> <200509272220.55426.jakllsch@kollasch.net> <1127880166.17121.3.camel@localhost> X-Archives-Salt: 26571447-dc35-4b0d-a7ea-8f08f92ce191 X-Archives-Hash: 5dcbb13937a6da2a046db48ae5e837e0 WKenworthy wrote: >Ive found that the latest knoppix has ndiswrapper so I have grabbed the >windoze binary and will give that a go tonight - 2005.1 doesnt appear to >have ndiswrapper. If all else failed I'll carry the thing into the >study and run a cable from the switch until I get everything copied >across :( > >BillK > > >On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 22:20 -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: > > >>On Tuesday 27 September 2005 07:40 am, W.Kenworthy wrote: >> >> >>>I am just about to install gentoo on my wifes dell9200 with the broadcom >>>BCM4309 chipset. However, no wlan0 is created and the chipset is not >>>detected. >>> >>> >>Um, Broadcom + IEEE 802.11 + Free Unix = no support (unless you're running a >>Linux 2.4 kernel on the MIPS32-el architecture, and then it's a proprietary >>binary). >> >> Jonathan Kollasch >> >> Actually, you can just 'emerge ndiswrapper' Be sure to read all the warnings at the end. You can ignore the warning about the 4K kernel stacks. The bcmwl5a driver works fine for me with the 2.6 kernel (so far). I use a scratch-built kernel (gentoo-source) and not genkernel. If the PCI address of your wlan card is 1404:4320, it should be able to use that driver. It is in the driver package: bcdriver/AR/bcmwl5a.inf Good luck. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list