Quote Originally Posted by quorlia
# ndiswrapper -i /media/hda2/drivers/btvr1055/bcmrndis.inf
So you already copied the .sys file in the /media/hda2/drivers/btvr1055 directory. Right?

Quote Originally Posted by quorlia
# cp /media/hda2/drivers/btvr1055/*.sys /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmrndis
- for some reason it fails to copy the sys files. I found this out on another forum and copy them by hand
You should not need to do this. By the time you run

Code:
ndiswrapper -i bcmrndis.inf
The related .sys file specified in your bcmrndis.inf will be copied by the ndiswrapper. If it is not copied, something is wrong.

Quote Originally Posted by quorlia
# ndiswrapper -l
bcmrndis: driver installed
device (XXXX:XXXX) present
- sorry, forgot to note down these numbers!
Looks like it wraps the driver already. Can you show us the exact output?

Quote Originally Posted by quorlia
# depmod -a
- recommended by the ndiswrapper homepage
I don't need to do this, but it should not be harmful to run this.

Quote Originally Posted by quorlia
# modprobe ndiswrapper

And this is where I get stuck. The light remains resolutely off on the adaptor and dmesg | grep ndis only tells me that ndiswrapper has been loaded - nothing about loading the actual driver for the adaptor, so no wlan0 appears.

These are the exact same driver files it uses under XP - I copied them to my drivers/btvr1055 directory to make it easy to remember where they are located.

(PS I can't use KDE as I don't have enough RAM)
Here is what I got when I run "dmesg | grep ndis" from my machine

Code:
ndiswrapper version 1.32 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver oem0 (Broadcom,11/27/2004, 3.100.35.0) loaded
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 18
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan0' to 'eth1'
Can you show us your output?

PS. Using which x-window manager should not be a problem to setup the wireless hardware. I tried to run knoppix in console mode also can activate the wireless card (i.e. boot: knoppix 3)

Rgds,
Chip