On Monday 17 April 2006 10:02, Neil Cherry wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 17 April 2006 08:45, Neil Cherry wrote: >>> Frank Pineau wrote: >>>> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 00:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>> So I downloaded it, but nothing happens when I tap, or dbl-tap on >>>>> the SP30676.exe file. Even in mc, which I thought could unpack >>>>> anything. >>>>> >>>>> Next? Surely there is a way to extract it and get the driver and >>>>> .inf file that ndiswrapper wants as an argument? >>>> >>>> I had the same problem. I had to extract the driver under >>>> Windows. >>> >>> You can extract it under Wine and when it blows up you'll find the >>> pieces under ~/.wine/drive_c/ (maybe SwSetup). >> >> Ok, installing wine with yum now. This should be fun, never having >> run wine before... Humm, I typed 'wine SP30676.exe' and it >> installed about 20 megs of fonts! And at the end, a bunch of >> fixme's, and a flashing kicker bar section labeled "Broadcom >> InstallShield Wizard", so I tapped on that, and it ran, and now I >> have another section at the bottom of the screen labeled Broadcom >> 802-11 with a text window icon. Tap that for effect. And that gave >> me an error occured while launching the setup with a (0x80020005) 32 >> bit number appended. So it blew up as you said :) >> >> But when wine was done, those files did exist. But ndiswrapper >> still fails with the exact same message when cd'd to that dir and >> running ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf, >> >> "couldn't copy bcmw15.inf at ndiswrapper line 139" > >I don't know why it doesn't work, what is the command you are >typing in? ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf >Are you in the directory what the files are? Yes. >I think you want the other inf file bcmwl5a.inf or somthing like that. >You can do a file * in that directory and it should be the ASCII >file not that data one. AFAICS there is only one .inf file there, and its a BIG binary. I'd moved 3 files altogether, and a file * shows this: [root@diablo firmware]# file * bcmwl5.inf: bcmwl5.PNF: PDP-11 UNIX/RT ldp bcmwl5.sys: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (native) Intel 80386 32-bit [root@diablo firmware]# Basicly nothing for the .inf. And ls -la: -r-------- 1 root root 658896 Nov 28 04:35 bcmwl5.inf -r-------- 1 root root 379840 Feb 14 22:34 bcmwl5.PNF -r-------- 1 root root 424320 Nov 28 04:35 bcmwl5.sys Do I need to get more than the .inf file from the ntfs partition? I just tried that by copying the whole dir from the ntfs partiton, but that made no difference, still the: [root@diablo WLAN]# ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf Installing bcmw15 couldn't copy bcmw15.inf at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 139. [root@diablo WLAN]# And as you can see, I was cd'd to the ntfs WLAN dir that time. I think I've an ndiswrapper bug, who do I nag about that? >-- >Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@xxxxxxxxxxx >http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site >http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog >http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ Backup site -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
