Using a Broadcom BCM4306 wlan chip with ndiswrapper

[Matti Pöllä]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:15:17AM -0800, sahutoglu sonmez wrote:
> --- Matti Pöllä <mpo at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm having trouble getting the wlan chip (Broadcom
> > BCM4306) of a
> > Compaq Presario X6000 laptop working.
>
> I got the same card. I used ndisgtk to install the
> drivers and then used network seetings (the icon on
> the right upper corner that looks like to monitor
> behind each other) to configure the connection.

It looks like the problem might be the wireless on/off button in the
laptop. The button apparently operates through USB and the kernel
doesn't know how to handle it.

Having said that, it would be interesting to also see whether we are
using the same drivers. If you could send me the output of "md5sum
bcmwl5.inf bcmwl5.sys" I could check if I have the right files.


Thanks,

-Matti