Compaq WIFI card not recognized by FC4

[Lovell Mcilwain]

I am running the most up-to-date kernel (I basically did a yum update for everything in fc4 to be
current on it all when I first loaded it on my system)
[root at Whistler broadcomwifidriver]# uname -r
2.6.12-1.1387_FC4

When I ran your command I got the following:
[root at Whistler broadcomwifidriver]# yum list kernel-module-ndiswrapper
Setting up repositories
livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files

but when I asked it to list just the ndiswrapper I got:
[root at Whistler broadcomwifidriver]# yum list ndiswrapper
Setting up repositories
livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
http://mirrors.bevc.net/fedora/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404:
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 01:21:52 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)
Content-Length: 234
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Trying other mirror.
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
ndiswrapper.i386                         1.2-0.lvn.3.4          installed
[root at Whistler broadcomwifidriver]#


Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On 7/6/05, Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I got ndiswrapper installed using the directions you gave me, thanks for all the help.  I was close
>>to home plate when I ran into fatal error.  Its not as bad as you think although does sound scary.
>>So I followed the directions for installed the drivers for ndiswrapper so you can see my steps that
>>I took:
>>
>>
>>Dowloaded the windows drivers for the wifi card
>>Extracted the .exe file with command cabextract  file.exe
>>cd' into the file that I extracted and run the command:
>>"ndiswrapper -i file.inf"
>>
>>Got the following response:
>>Installing bcmwl5
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
>>
>>Ran the command "ndiswrapper -l" to check if things were ok
>>
>>Got the following response:
>>Installed ndis drivers:
>>bcmwl5  driver present, hardware present
> 
> 
> Good so far.
> 
> 
>>ran the command "modprobe ndiswrapper" to load the drivers/firmware
>>
>>I get the following response:
>>
>>[root at Whistler broadcomwifidriver]# modprobe ndiswrapper
>>FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.
>>
>>
>>Can anyone help me get past this fatal error?  Is there another way I can load this or even see if
>>what I have is correct?
>>
>>Thanks
> 
> 
> Hmm, did you install the Livna package using the "yum install
> ndiswrapper"?  I guess you need to explicitly tell it to get you the
> kernel module as well.
> 
> yum list "kernel-module-ndiswrapper*"
> 
> will give you a list of the avialable kernel modules.  Install the one
> for your kernel version ("uname -r" will tell you the one you are
> running).  If you are running the latest FC4 kernel
> (2.6.12-1.1387_FC4, which you should update to) then your install
> command will be:
> 
> yum install kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4
> 
> Unfortuntely, the list will not show you the whole package name, so
> you need to tack on the "FC4" part to the end.
> 
> Jonathan
>