As promised here are the steps that I followed to get my wireless card working on my Comaq Presario V3000 in Debian:<\/p>\n
1. Install ndiswrapper<\/b><\/p>\n
In my case I allready had the ndis wrapper installed. If thats not the case with your system run the following command as root to install it: <\/p>\n
2. Disable the “bcm43xx” driver on your system<\/strong><\/p>\n Run the following command at a command prompt as root :<\/p>\n 3. Download the Windows driver for your card<\/strong><\/p>\n My system uses the Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 card and I had to download the Windows driver for it from the Dell site. For some reason the driver I found at the Compaq site refused to work. You can download it from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save this in the \/tmp directory cd into the \/tmp directory, and unzip the Windows driver package:<\/p>\n 4. Install the Windows driver with ndiswrapper<\/strong><\/p>\n To load the driver you need to run the following command as root:<\/p>\n The you should verify that the driver has been successfully loaded<\/p>\n The output of this command should look like the following if it is loaded correctly<\/p>\n Installed ndis drivers: or<\/p>\n {name of driver} : driver installed 5. Load the ndiswrapper module<\/strong><\/p>\n You now need to load the ndiswrapper module. Run the following steps at a command prompt as root:<\/p>\n if the above commands don’t give any errors then the drivers have been successfully installed. <\/p>\n 6. Configure the wireless card<\/b><\/p>\n I have found the ‘netcardconfig’ command the easiest to use when configuring a new card. Run it as root and answer the questions it asks and it will configure the card for you.<\/p>\n 7. Set the ndiswrapper module to automatically load at boot<\/b><\/p>\n ndiswrapper is not started by default when the system starts up so you must configure your system to load the ndiswrapper module at system startup. To do this, edit \/etc\/modules file as root to add an entry for ndiswrapper at the end of the file. <\/p>\napt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils ndisgtk<\/code><\/p>\necho 'blacklist bcm43xx' | sudo tee -a \/etc\/modprobe.d\/blacklist<\/code><\/p>\ncd \/tmp
\nunzip R123456.EXE (or whatever the name of the download is)
\n<\/code><\/p>\n ndiswrapper -i \/tmp\/DRIVER\/bcmwl5.inf<\/code><\/p>\nndiswrapper -l<\/code><\/p>\n
\n{name of driver} driver present, hardware present<\/p>\n
\n device ({Chipset ID}) present<\/p>\ndepmod -a
\nmodprobe ndiswrapper<\/code><\/p>\n