[KLUG Members] Getting our Compaq laptop on wireless

[Brock Inglehart]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 09:47 -0500, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > After Bruce's suggestion of going to Compaq homepage (Google is my
> > friend) to see if they had the drivers I am looking for (the 2 Windows
> > files needed to install in ndis wrapper,) I found 2 drivers that say
> > they are Broadcom WLAN Network Adapters.  One says that it is a user
> > interface for Windows XP and the other says it is a driver for Windows
> > XP.  Does W in WLAN stand for wireless?  
> 
> Yes, "W" = "wireless".
> 
> > Do these kind of look like the right ones.  
> 
> No idea.  Give them a try.

I don't think they are the right ones even though the description at
Compaq sounds like they are.  They are both exe. files as they are
downloaded and the instructions on the web say that after the files are
unpacked, the Setup program runs auromatically." I downloaded them to
the desktop and tried to "unpack" them and wine gave me an error msg.
"An error occured while launching the setup (0x80010105)"  but it did
put a bunch (20)of file icons with strange names on the desktop
including one with and "inf" suffix.  Somehow I have trouble believing
that 1/20 of the file package is what I am looking for.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to find these files?
Brock

>   
> > The reference I am using to pick the files is the first paragraph in
> > instruction 2.0 at this websight:
> > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Suse%20Professional%209.2
> 
>  - BS
> 
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