Hi
I am an absolute beginner at LINUX, so please help.
I am trying to get my wireless PCMIA Linksys WPC54G card to work, but I have no idea how to, I have tried ndiswrapper but I don’t know what I am supposed to do with it. Any help would be greatfully appreciated. A kinda like an idiots guide please.
Thank you in advance
John:’(
enizag wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am an absolute beginner at LINUX, so please help.
> I am trying to get my wireless PCMIA Linksys WPC54G card to work, but I
> have no idea how to, I have tried ndiswrapper but I don’t know what I am
> supposed to do with it. Any help would be greatfully appreciated. A
> kinda like an idiots guide please.
First of all, you need to go to the wireless forum. Please read the
stickies at the beginning of that forum. Please pay attention to the
section that tells you how to determine the PCI IDs, get those
numbers, and report them in that forum. I think I know what a WPC54G
is, but many vendors change the internal chip without making any
changes in the model name.
Once we know the details of the wireless chip, we can tell you how to
make it work. Note - ndiswrapper is the LAST thing you want to do -
we will recommend it only if absolutely necessary.
Larry
Hi Larry
Thank you for the reply, I have got the information you require (hopefully):
54: udi = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320’
info.udi = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320’
linux.subsystem = ‘pci’
linux.hotplug_type = 1 (0x1)
pci.subsys_product = ‘WPC54G’
pci.subsys_vendor = ‘Linksys’
info.product = ‘BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller’
pci.product = ‘BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller’
info.vendor = ‘Broadcom Corporation’
pci.vendor = ‘Broadcom Corporation’
pci.device_protocol = 0 (0x0)
pci.device_subclass = 128 (0x80)
pci.device_class = 2 (0x2)
pci.subsys_vendor_id = 5943 (0x1737)
pci.subsys_product_id = 17184 (0x4320)
pci.vendor_id = 5348 (0x14e4)
pci.product_id = 17184 (0x4320)
pci.linux.sysfs_path = ‘/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:03.0/0000:02:00.0’
info.parent = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_104c_ac50’
info.bus = ‘pci’
linux.sysfs_path_device = ‘/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:03.0/0000:02:00.0’
linux.sysfs_path = ‘/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:03.0/0000:02:00.0’
The wireless receiver is a Linxsys WPC54G ver 1.2.
Any help is much appreciated.
John
enizag wrote:
> Hi Larry
>
> Thank you for the reply, I have got the information you require
> (hopefully):
>
> 54: udi = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320’
> info.udi = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320’
The 14e4:4320 will work with the built-in driver b43.
You probably need only to install the firmware. If you have Internet
access when running Linux, open a console terminal and enter the command
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
To install the BCM43xx firmware if you do not have a connection in
Linux, do the following:
Using any method that you have to access the Internet, download this
http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
Then copy it into your home directory. Once you have it there, you
should enter the following:
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware \
broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o
Once you have the firmware installed, you should unload/reload b43 using
sudo /sbin/modprobe -rv b43
sudo /sbin/modprobe -v b43
You can then check the the b43 is working with
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
You should see your AP in the list. Use the network applet to add a
new connection to that AP.
Larry