I got ndiswrapper installed using the directions you gave me, thanks for all the help. I was close to home plate when I ran into fatal error. Its not as bad as you think although does sound scary. So I followed the directions for installed the drivers for ndiswrapper so you can see my steps that I took: Dowloaded the windows drivers for the wifi card Extracted the .exe file with command cabextract file.exe cd’ into the file that I extracted and run the command: "ndiswrapper -i file.inf" Got the following response: Installing bcmwl5 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Ran the command "ndiswrapper -l" to check if things were ok Got the following response: Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present ran the command "modprobe ndiswrapper" to load the drivers/firmware I get the following response: [root@Whistler broadcomwifidriver]# modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. Can anyone help me get past this fatal error? Is there another way I can load this or even see if what I have is correct? Thanks Jonathan Berry wrote: > On 7/6/05, Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Hello all, >> >>I am new to fedora core (From Mandrake) and I just installed FC4 on my compaq Presario R3000. It > > > These might interest you then: > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > http://prinsig.se/weekee/ > > >>doesn't seem to be able to recognize my wireless card that I have in it. I posted some questions on >> linuxquestions.org and they let me know the FC doesn't support my card so that I would have to use >>ndiswrapper along with the windows drivers that came with it. > > > That is correct, the broadcom chipset does not have open-source > drivers. It does work well with ndiswrapper, though. Are you using > 32- or 64-bit? The R3000 comes in several flavors. > > >>Apparently before I get started I need to have the kernel source files which after reading for a bit >>Fedora doesn't ship with. > > > No you do not. You only need the headers. > > >>Can anyone tell me if there is a way that I can use YUM to download the kernel source files that I need? > > > yum install kernel-devel > > >>if not: >> >>Is there an rpm somewhere that I can use to install? I would really hate to have to do this manually. > > > Compiling ndiswrapper from source is fairly painless, but if you want, > Livna has an RPM package for it. Just get the appropriate Livna > release RPM at (choose your arch): > http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/livna-release-4-0.lvn.2.4.noarch.rpm > http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/x86_64/RPMS.lvn/livna-release-4-0.lvn.2.4.noarch.rpm > > install it, and then something like: > > yum install ndiswrapper > > should do it. I've just compiled it from source. > > >>Thanks in advance, > > > Jonathan >
