HOW-TO: easy ndiswrapper (Broadcom 43xx script included)

[bmartin]

If you're running Hardy Heron, I recommend using the driver in the Restricted Drivers Manager. It works quite well!

Please see this thread.

[Knightstormz]

great idea but this assumes you have a wired connection the the computer you are running the script on.

[Jimmy The Clown]

A++++ Great poster!!! Would do business again!

But seriously your timing was perfect. Just wiped my old breezy partition and clean installed Feisty. Using a Broadcom 4306 rev 02 on a hp nx9010.

One note, seems like I didn't enable the community repo before I ran your script. Got no error on cabextract install, but the command failed later in the script. I realized my mistake pretty quick.

Also got

./auto-ndiswrapper.sh: line 57: [: too many arguments

during the ndis script. Everything seems to be working fine connecting to a WEP wireless at 54 mbps.

JTC

[benmoreassynt]

sorry poisted in wrong place

[hoistyler]

I have a problem..

This is what I get when I type

sudo ./auto-ndiswrapper.sh

* Backing up current configuration
* Installing the necessary compilation libraries
* Removing old ndiswrapper module
./auto-ndiswrapper.sh: 56: pushd: not found
* Removing old ndiswrapper
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
* Compiling ndiswrapper
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
* Installing ndiswrapper
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
./auto-ndiswrapper.sh: 67: popd: not found
* Configuring ndiswrapper
./auto-ndiswrapper.sh: 71: pushd: not found
./auto-ndiswrapper.sh: 72: ndiswrapper: not found
./auto-ndiswrapper.sh: 73: ndiswrapper: not found
./auto-ndiswrapper.sh: 74: ndiswrapper: not found
./auto-ndiswrapper.sh: 75: popd: not found
* inserting ndiswrapper module
*** Installation is complete. You may need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

[bmartin]

Are you running a shell other than BASH? pushd and popd are BASH built-in commands.

Edit: there's an extra line at the beginning of the script. I fixed the problem. You can either remove it yourself using gedit or pico, or download the new script.

[DreamcastJack]

why not just install the broadcom through syneptic? i have a 4306 chip in mine and it worked perfect for me. it only connects at a 11mps but thats better than going through so much trouble. if I need alot of speed for a d/l i'll just hook it up to ethernet..

[bmartin]

Originally Posted by DreamcastJack why not just install the broadcom through syneptic? i have a 4306 chip in mine and it worked perfect for me. it only connects at a 11mps but thats better than going through so much trouble. if I need alot of speed for a d/l i'll just hook it up to ethernet..

You're thinking of the firmware, which doesn't work for everyone. The person who's currently trying to use this method was unsuccessful with the firmware. It only works for a few chipsets, such as 03 and 06.

My connection ( 4318 ) is flaky with the firmware. It works perfectly w/ ndiswrapper.

[DreamcastJack]

Originally Posted by bmartin You're thinking of the firmware, which doesn't work for everyone. The person who's currently trying to use this method was unsuccessful with the firmware. It only works for a few chipsets, such as 03 and 06. My connection ( 4318 ) is flaky with the firmware. It works perfectly w/ ndiswrapper.

ah okay, my apologies.

[wayno]

hey there everyone, does this method work for Netgear PCI adapters because then i put in the following

sudo ./auto-ndiswrapper.sh

I got
ERROR: No inf file found in driver directory!

i put the WinXP .inf and .sys fies in ~/Desktop/autondiswrapper/drivers
are they meant to go there or ~/Desktop/autondiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.45/drivers

ps. i'm new to linux ~ 3 hours