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roberts:
I have just packaged up ndiswrapper for Tiny Core.

--- Code: ---Title:          ndiswrapper.tcem
Description:    ndiswrapper for wireless card support
Version:        1.53
Author:         Giridhar Pemmasani 
Original-site:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper
Copying-policy: GPL
Size:           96K
Extension_by:   roberts
Comments:       ---------
Ndiswrapper for Tiny Core contains ndiswrapper proper and
ndiswrapper binary replacement for the perl script.
The ndiswrapper binary is by: Andrew Calkin of the GeeXboX project
It is also licensed by GPL
Current:        2008/12/28 First version

--- End code ---

Juanito:
..still struggling to get wireless going on my replacement laptop.

I have what windows refers to as a "Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card" and what linux refers to as :
--- Code: ---0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:000b]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
        Memory at efdfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
--- End code ---

If I follow the instructions here http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=16749 to the letter, I get:
--- Code: ---$ sudo ndiswrapper -i /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5.inf
Installing bcmwl5
Could not find section 'strings' in inf file!
Could not find section 'version' in inf file!
--- End code ---

Is it possible this is due to the conversion from perl?

roberts:
Could be. It is a shame that ndiswrapper depends on something so big as perl.

Note, you can actually do the ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf on another machine and transfer over the /etc/ndiswrapper/   results. Then on the target machine just do the modprobe ndiswrapper and you should get a wlan0 device that you can then configure via iwconfig

Note also that the native driver for the Broadcom BCM4310 is not hard to compile.

I was using ndiswrapper with the /etc/ part made elsewhere, but now I am using the native module.

Juanito:
It is indeed the perl mod that seems to be the problem - after compiling the latest ndiswrapper (with perl - although ndiswrapper is not smart enought to find perl in /usr/local/bin), things work.


--- Quote from: roberts on March 08, 2009, 03:36:03 AM ---Note also that the native driver for the Broadcom BCM4310 is not hard to compile.

--- End quote ---

Ah-ha - you mean b43 (bcm4310 not yet supported) or "Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver" http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php (not totally clear for me if it supports bcm4310 or not)?

Edit: The full ndiswrapper works, the "sans perl" ndiswrapper works after copying /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5 from the full ndiswrapper and your wl.ko native driver works - so, all good  :)

roberts:
Good to hear everything works.

Now that we have a perl extension and you have compiled the latest ndiswrapper, we can drop the C version from GeeXBox used only the -i option and use the full version. Please post yours.

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