Wireless ‘Whoas!’
I just installed the newest version of SimplyMepis_6.0 (Final Release) to the second hard drive on my notebook computer; a Model 1805-S203 in the Toshiba Satellite line. It has the Linksys WPC54GS version 2, PCMCIA (CardBus) wireless adapter installed (pretty-much permanently) for establishing a non-CAT5e connection to our nearly-enterprise-quality home network.
I thought I’d give y’all the ’secret handshake’ to getting wireless networking up and running with nearly no effort at all.
To get things started-off correctly, you will need one of these things:
…or some other wireless solution which uses the Broadcom, BCM4318 version_2 chipset.
Then you perform the following Linux sys-admin mojo:
( 1.) Download SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso, and burn it to a CD-R. (If you don’t already know how to do this, stop now. You have a lot to learn before you will be able to use Linux intelligently.
( 2.) Install SimplyMEPIS 6.0 Final.
( 3.) Copy the windoze drivers from Linksys CD ( /Drivers/NT/ ) to someplace on your filesystem. /inst/wireless/linksys/wpc54gsv2/ is a good place to work with.
- /mnt/cdrom0/Driver/NT/LSBCMNDS.inf
/mnt/cdrom0/Driver/NT/bcmwl5.sys
/mnt/cdrom0/Driver/NT/LSBCMNDS.cat
( 4.) Open-up a console session and do:
( 5.) ndiswrapper -e [all wireless drivers].
( 6.) ndiswrapper -i LSBCMNDS.inf .
( 7.) Blacklist the bcm43xx driver in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Just add:
#Broadcom Native Driver
blacklist bcm43xx
to the end of the file.
Use the GUI tools to:
( 8.) Enter ESSID, channel freq., WEP/WPA…anything else you can think of.
( 9.) Stop WLAN0 .
(10.) Start WLAN0 .
You are done, and you don’t have to fool-around with rebooting, doing ‘ndiswrapper -m’, or fw-cuts. It will work at boot-time everytime.
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