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perhojen
03-05-2006, 08:15 PM
Step 1. Start out in windows
Step 2. Get the wireless adpater's drivers, For my averatec 3200 the Broadcom drivers (Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11g (rev 3)) from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/List
Step 3. I placed bcmwl5a.inf and bcmwl5.sys on c:\
Step 4. Boot KNOPPIX CD
Step 5. In a root terminal mount /dev/hda1
Step 6. cd /dev/hda1
Step 7. Issue the following instructions

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid SSID [Replace SSID with yours, I use the default for my linksys router which is linksys]
pump -i wlan0

Step 8. Try a browser, it should be working.

I hope someone find this useful.

Harry Kuhman
03-05-2006, 09:39 PM
Please consider adding this to the wireless networking section of the wiki.