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Thread ID: 83573	2007-10-06 01:55:00	PCLinuxOS and ndiswrapper	Myth (110)	Press F1

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598473	2007-10-06 01:55:00	Am giving PCLinuxOS a whirl on the laptop. I have installed it to give it a decent run. Having a problem with wifi. According to one site I visited, the driver for my Broadcom device has been added to the kernel as of 2.6.17-rc2. PCLOS has 2.6.18. Yet my broadcom refused to run [How does one recompile a kernel in this OS so I can check that the driver is actually part of the kernel?] Therefore, I have tried using ndiswrapper to start it. I have ndiswrapper installed, then I installed the windows driver (as outlined at the ndiswrapper.sourceforge site); then modprobed ndiswrapper. So it now pings itself, localhost, and eth0. But thats it. It won't ping the router (even though I turned WEP etc off), nor will it ping any other computer in the network. Even tried this: iwconfig wlan0 essid PCLOS key wep-key-from-router-settings .. and then ifup wlan0	Myth (110)
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