Using a Broadcom BCM4306 wlan chip with ndiswrapper

[MrKnisely]

Matti Pöllä wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:15:17AM -0800, sahutoglu sonmez wrote:
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>>--- Matti Pöllä <mpo at iki.fi> wrote:
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>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I'm having trouble getting the wlan chip (Broadcom
>>>BCM4306) of a
>>>Compaq Presario X6000 laptop working.
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>>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Thanks,
>
>-Matti
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Does the light go on?

If not, after you load the drivers, push the button.  Is the light on now?

Mike K.