I am having trouble getting the above 802.11g card working under Slack 10.2.
I have been using ndiswrapper but without success. This card shows up as an
unknown type with lspci. There is no bcmwl51.inf file on the windows
install CD (no .inf file at all). I downloaded a set of drivers and managed
to install bcmwl5a.inf with ndiswrapper but the hardware is still not
detected. This card seems to be the exception to the rule. Any idea?

Ian

"Ian Bell" <ruffrecords@yahoo.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:dsmqnv$bgm$1@slavica.ukpost.com...
>I am having trouble getting the above 802.11g card working under Slack
>10.2.
> I have been using ndiswrapper but without success. This card shows up as
> an
> unknown type with lspci. There is no bcmwl51.inf file on the windows
> install CD (no .inf file at all). I downloaded a set of drivers and
> managed
> to install bcmwl5a.inf with ndiswrapper but the hardware is still not
> detected. This card seems to be the exception to the rule. Any idea?

Perhaps the drivers are located in some compressed archive (.cab .exe
..something else)?

/Morten

Morten Lundstrøm wrote:

>
> "Ian Bell" <ruffrecords@yahoo.com> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:dsmqnv$bgm$1@slavica.ukpost.com...
>>I am having trouble getting the above 802.11g card working under Slack
>>10.2.
>> I have been using ndiswrapper but without success. This card shows up as
>> an
>> unknown type with lspci. There is no bcmwl51.inf file on the windows
>> install CD (no .inf file at all). I downloaded a set of drivers and
>> managed
>> to install bcmwl5a.inf with ndiswrapper but the hardware is still not
>> detected. This card seems to be the exception to the rule. Any idea?
>
> Perhaps the drivers are located in some compressed archive (.cab .exe
> .something else)?
>
> /Morten

I think I may finally be on to something. The files that come with on the
disc are not compressed but there is no .inf file. I downloaded the latest
drivers from Belkin and unzipped them - and behold all the files on my CD
PLUS an rt2500.inf.

Ian

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:01:49 +0000, Ian Bell wrote:

> I think I may finally be on to something. The files that come with on the
> disc are not compressed but there is no .inf file. I downloaded the latest
> drivers from Belkin and unzipped them - and behold all the files on my CD
> PLUS an rt2500.inf.
>
> Ian

since this is a rt2500 card, maybe you can try also:

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

driver is still beta, but should be usable.

--
i.