Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Debian 4.0 Ndiswrapper

Dell 1350 Wireless Inspirion Laptop

#Update & Install ndiswrapper
apt-get -y update && apt-get -y upgrade
apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils

#Remove the native driver they created
rmmod bcm43xx
#Stop it form loading on startup
echo blacklist bcm43xx >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

#Find the inf file for your card
#http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
#For the 1350 Wireless Card in my laptop
#ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R83097.EXE
unzip R83097.EXE -d wireless
ndiswrapper -i wireless/AR/bcmwl5a.inf

#Add ndiswrapper to startup
echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules

#Ndiswrapper module
apt-get -y install build-essential module-assistant
m-a prepare
m-a a-i ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper

#Test
iwlist scan

No comments: