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Slipstream

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Registered: 2008-07-13

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Broadcom Air Force One, any Ndiswrapper instructions?

Hi everyone!
I've been hearing great things about Arch, and being a fairly new Ubuntu user, I naturally like things to be easy and mostly automated (although I'm willing to learn!), and I just happen to be one of those unlucky few who need to use Ndiswrapper to get their wireless card working. We have some pretty nice tutorials on how to do this on Ubuntu, such as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD … y_No-Fluff and I'm wondering if there's a corresponding Arch step-by-step guide. I no longer have an XP install, so I can't rip drivers out of there.

Thanks,
Slip

Last edited by Slipstream (2008-07-13 05:15:24)

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: Broadcom Air Force One, any Ndiswrapper instructions?

Most of the documentation is found on the wiki.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/

The wireless docos are here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup
in particular b43 and bcm43xx

Last edited by iphitus (2008-07-13 06:39:47)

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Broadcom Air Force One, any Ndiswrapper instructions?

Can't help you with ndiswrapper, but my Air Force One works perfectly with the b43 module provided by the kernel. Details here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup

Slipstream

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Re: Broadcom Air Force One, any Ndiswrapper instructions?

Huh, that's awesome. I wonder why Ubuntu doesn't have the same thing though.

iphitus

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Re: Broadcom Air Force One, any Ndiswrapper instructions?

b43 is somewhat new

rooloo

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Re: Broadcom Air Force One, any Ndiswrapper instructions?

Huh, that's awesome. I wonder why Ubuntu doesn't have the same thing though.

b43 is somewhat new

bleeding edge!