New thread, broadcom 802-11 related

[Neil Cherry]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 08:45, Neil Cherry wrote:
>> Frank Pineau wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 00:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> So I downloaded it, but nothing happens when I tap, or dbl-tap on
>>>> the SP30676.exe file.  Even in mc, which I thought could unpack
>>>> anything.
>>>>
>>>> Next?  Surely there is a way to extract it and get the driver and
>>>> .inf file that ndiswrapper wants as an argument?
>>> I had the same problem.  I had to extract the driver under Windows.
>> You can extract it under Wine and when it blows up you'll find the
>> pieces under ~/.wine/drive_c/ (maybe SwSetup).
> 
> Ok, installing wine with yum now.  This should be fun, never having run 
> wine before...  Humm, I typed 'wine SP30676.exe' and it installed about 
> 20 megs of fonts!  And at the end, a bunch of fixme's, and a flashing 
> kicker bar section labeled "Broadcom InstallShield Wizard", so I tapped 
> on that, and it ran, and now I have another section at the bottom of 
> the screen labeled Broadcom 802-11 with a text window icon.  Tap that 
> for effect.  And that gave me an error occured while launching the 
> setup with a (0x80020005) 32 bit number appended.  So it blew up as you 
> said :)
> 
> But when wine was done, those files did exist.  But ndiswrapper still 
> fails with the exact same message when cd'd to that dir and running 
> ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf,
> 
>  "couldn't copy bcmw15.inf at ndiswrapper line 139"

I don't know why it doesn't work, what is the command you are
typing in? Are you in the directory what the files are? I think
you want the other inf file bcmwl5a.inf or somthing like that.
You can do a file * in that directory and it should be the ASCII
file not that data one.

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