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 Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:02 pm
Its a sad fact that unless you are using a Intel wireless card, then it will not get installed and configured during the installation of your Distro. Don't worry there is always around this, how you get your wireless card working depends on what make and model of card you are using. There are only a small hand full of the many wireless cards that have free Linux drivers, if you think you may have one then your distro should have a repository with the drivers. If you don't have one of those or an Intel don't worry yet we haven't covered all your options.
If you happen to have a Atheros card then your in luck all you have to do is install the MadWifi program along with the correct kernel module. Then just restart your computer and when Linux boots back up you will have a working wireless card.
If you don't have a Atheros card, Intel, or one of the cards with Native Linux support then there is always NDIS wrapper. To use NDIS wrapper you need a couple of this:
1. Some time
2, Some instructions for your distro (Recently people have been making GUIs for NDISwrapper but if there is none for your distro you may want to have that to use)
3. the Windows XP version of your driver (currently Vista drivers are not supported)
4. Your favorite candy or drink etc...
Once you added the driver using NDISwrapper you need to set up your card using your distros tool for that, then restart the computer and your card should be working. NOTE: Some distros will not offer tech support for kernel related problems if you have NDISwrapper installed.
If you have a Broadcom card then you have another option eek you can use a program to cut out the firmware from the .sys file that comes with the driver. It is called bcm43xx-fwcutter, once you use bcm43xx-fwcutter to extract the firmware from the .sys you will see several new files that end with .fw. Copy those files to "/lib/firmware" configure your card and restart your computer. Your card should be working once it has finished booting up.
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:35 pm
To note: I use Linux Mint and the installation of wireless cards is instant.
3 hours to install windows
1 hour to install drivers
A life time of regret.
45 minutes to install Linux Mint
5 minutes to get online
Complete escape from Windows - Priceless.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:40 pm
You sure it wasn't just the driver you needed was included in the kernel?
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