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Originally Posted by punky
I did have a Mandrake box which I wanted to use as a wireless print server. The wireless worked just peachy, but I could not, under any circumstances get linux to print to my printer (one of those free Dell rubbish). I had to ditch it for Windows. 
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If memory serves, it took about 3 commands, and it was explained well in the readme file.
If you don't want to mess about with that, Linuxant provides a guided GUI setup for installing wireless cards using their XP .sys files on linux, but you have to pay. |
Er no, slightly more than 3 commands, what planet are you on?
1) Download the windows driver from relevant site
2) wipe any previous attempts at installing ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe -r bcmwl5
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-utils
sudo rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/
sudo rm -r /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
3) Copy the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys files to your desktop
4) Open a terminal then: sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m
for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
done
Which is all well and good, but you'll need to have internet access to do this, so you'll need to run a cable to your wireless router
5) Reboot
6) In a terminal, sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
7) Wonder why it's still not working
8) Reinstall Windows XP 64 and notice how your wireless card was automatically installed without having to use a CD or download anything.