distrá s wifi

Prepačte, že píšem, ale chcel by som poprosiť linuxovú komunitu s problémom inštalácie wifi na notebook Acer s os Ubuntu 7,10. Tento problebém je riešený v databáze znalosti " www.linuxos.sk/KnowledgeBase_show_entry/88/index.html " , vy ste tu samí skusený použivatelia a pre mňa ako začiatočníka je trochu problém.
Chcel som prejsť na inú distribúciu linuxu Suse 10,3 , Fedora 8 , ale ubuntu ja fajn. Ak je tento driver obsiahnutý v nejakom distre dajte vedieť.

Podobnú tému som našiel na nete kde je popis inštalácie /súhlasí s mojou kartou/ :

1. Install ndiswrapper:
sudo aptitude install ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 wireless-tools
sudo aptitude install ndiswrapper-source module-assistant
sudo m-a prepare
sudo m-a a-i ndiswrapper
This compiles and installs ndiswrapper as a module in the kernel. To load ndiswrapper module: sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

2. Downloaded the windows wireless driver from the Dell site to a temprorary directory:
wget <url>

3. The exe file downloaded was a self extracting file. Unzip it with unzip:
unzip R115321.EXE

4. This unzips a lot of file in the working directory. The .inf file that we need is in the location DRIVER/bcmwl5.inf

5. Install the windows driver:
sudo ndiswrapper -i DRIVER/bcmwl5.inf

6. See if the installation went successfully:

ndiswrapper -l

The output should be something like this:

bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware (14E4:4324) present

7. Lastly, add “ndiswrapper” (without the quotes) in /etc/modules.

8. Do a iwconfig to see if there now is a interface with wireless extension. On my laptop the interface shows as wlan0

Later on I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.21-2-686 from Debian testing (Lenny) and I decided to configure wireless using the bcm43xx driver which works well with the new kernel:
Update /etc/apt/sources.list to point to Debian testing by adding the following line:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main
Install the new kernel:

sudo aptitude update && aptitude install linux-image-2.6.21-2-686
Install bcm43xx-fwcutter which is needed to extract the firmware:

sudo aptitude install bcm43xx-fwcutter
Download the zip file that has the file from which we can get the firmware and unzip it:

wget http://sidulus.textdrive.com/bcmwl5sys.zip

unzip bcmwl5sys.zip (From this we get a file named bcmwl5.sys)


Extract the firmware from the sys file:

sudo bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ bcmwl5.sys

All the firmware file gets extracted to /lib/firmware/
Copy the firmware files (*.fw) to /lib/hotplug/firmware/ also:

sudo cp /lib/firmware/*.fw /lib/hotplug/firmware — Not sure whether this is needed or not …
modprobe bcm43xx and reboot the machine.