Guest Protostar Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 Hello all. I've been switching from distro to distro trying to find the right one (read:one that supports all of my hardware) and have found limited success. I've stumbled across Mandrake and since KDE actually confgures the laptop to the correct screen resolution I've decided to stay with this one provided one thing is made to work: my wireless adapter. I've have the misfortune of having a Broadcom wireless adapter which has NO Linux support whatsoever. I tried setting up a wireless network using the Mandrake Control Center. I d/led ndiswrapper and installed the bcmwl5.inf driver but nothing happened. I don't understand. I ran the iwconfig commmand and it said there were no wireless extensions. In the wireless network section of the control center, it says the gateway is smdfhub-6509msfc-ncstate.net. I'm connected right now through a wired connection so maybe that has something to do with it? Any help would be really appreciated. TIA, Proto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 I'm assuming you've tried these: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawi...hp/Installation and if you're using WPA on your wireless access point/wireless router: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/WPA PS, welcome to the board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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