Configuring the broadcom wireless card in Suse 10.1

[Robert Ryley]

Hello everyone.

I've been having a problem that bugs me. I took my Compaq 3000R laptop,
that has a dual boot XP/Suse 10.1 installation to the LUG I go to once a
month. One of the members there took me through the process of installing
ndiswrapper, as well as the broadcom windows drivers.

I can see that the broadcom drivers and ndiswrapper are loaded into the
kernel, but the card is still not able to work. I think I need to configure
the modprobe.config.local file, but I don't have the slightest idea on what
needs to go in there.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
Robert

[Jeffrey Franc-Law]

Can you load ndiswrapper manually using modprobe? That is can you type
"modprobe ndiswrapper" and get no error messages?

If you can, and you want this to load automagically at boot time, you
can configure your network card using YAST. Simply find the network
card in YAST and change the module name to "ndiswrapper" and it should
load at boot time.

Try looking here: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/NDIS_Wrapper for a
good runthrough of how to install.

ciao,
jfl

Post by Robert Ryley
Hello everyone.
I've been having a problem that bugs me. I took my Compaq 3000R laptop,
that has a dual boot XP/Suse 10.1 installation to the LUG I go to once a
month. One of the members there took me through the process of
installing ndiswrapper, as well as the broadcom windows drivers.
I can see that the broadcom drivers and ndiswrapper are loaded into the
kernel, but the card is still not able to work. I think I need to
configure the modprobe.config.local file, but I don't have the slightest
idea on what needs to go in there.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Robert
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[Tom Corr]

On Friday 02 November 2007, you wrote:
I'm using openSuse 10.2 and 10.3 both 64-bit. On both of these computers, the
ndiswrapper line went into etc /etc/modprobe.d directory.

as root:

1) cd /etc/modprobe.d

2) # Verify that the file does not already exist?
ls -l ndiswrapper

3) echo alias eth1 ndiswrapper >ndiswrapper

4) cat ndiswrapper

Hope this helps.

Post by Robert Ryley
Hello everyone.
I've been having a problem that bugs me. I took my Compaq 3000R laptop,
that has a dual boot XP/Suse 10.1 installation to the LUG I go to once a
month. One of the members there took me through the process of installing
ndiswrapper, as well as the broadcom windows drivers.
I can see that the broadcom drivers and ndiswrapper are loaded into the
kernel, but the card is still not able to work. I think I need to
configure the modprobe.config.local file, but I don't have the slightest
idea on what needs to go in there.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Robert