[driverloader] which Windows XP driver files to use for Broadcom wireless on Dell latitude D600?

[Cameron Mura]

Hello anyone who uses the DriverLoader with Dell TrueMobile wireless,

    In trying to set-up wireless for Linux (Red Hat 9) on a Dell 
Latitude D600 laptop with a Broadcom TrueMobile 1300 miniPCI 802.11b/g 
wireless interface, I found that I can extract the Windows XP driver 
"R65194.EXE" referred to in my email (below) with 'unzip'.  Extracting 
this file produces 41 files within TMSetup/, Omcixlt/, bin/ 
subdirectories, and now I'm wondering -- which are the proper .INF, 
.SYS, etc. files to feed the DriverLoader's web configuration utility??  
Is it the TMSetup/bcmwl5.inf/.sys pair?
The list of extracted files follows...Any advice would be greatly 
appreciated!

Thanks a lot,

    Cameron

Extracted files (via 'unzip -l R65194.EXE | more'):

> Archive:  R65194.EXE
>   Length     Date   Time    Name
>  --------    ----   ----    ----
>     45056  03-21-03 10:26   TMSetup.exe
>    393216  03-21-03 10:26   bin/DEMO32.EXE
>      3910  03-21-03 10:26   bin/setup.dbd
>      1042  03-21-03 10:26   Omcixlt/DELLOMCI.INF
>    139264  03-21-03 10:26   Omcixlt/DELLSMBI.DLL
>     53248  03-21-03 10:26   Omcixlt/DELLSYS.DLL
>     40960  03-21-03 10:26   Omcixlt/DRVSETUP.EXE
>     31625  03-21-03 10:26   Omcixlt/DSMBISAM.ZIP
>     26749  03-21-03 10:26   Omcixlt/OMCI.VXD
>     15783  03-21-03 10:26   Omcixlt/OMCINT4.SYS
>     17156  03-21-03 10:26   Omcixlt/OMCIWDM.SYS
>     57344  03-21-03 10:26   Omcixlt/SETUP.EXE
>       475  08-14-03 12:45   Omcixlt/setup.log
>      8564  07-01-03 13:35   TMSetup/bcm43xx.cat
>      4556  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/BCMLogo.gif
>     17742  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/bcmwl5.inf
>    254208  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/bcmwl5.sys
>    729088  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/bcmwlcpl.cpl
>     57344  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/bcmwld2k.exe
>   1527681  06-12-03 18:30   TMSetup/bcmwlhlp.chm
>     45056  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/bcmwlhom.exe
>     19862  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/bcmwlhom.ini
>      9600  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/bcmwlntp.sys
>    450560  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/bcmwltry.exe
>    139264  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/bcmwlu00.exe
>   2297777  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/data1.cab
>     36296  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/data1.hdr
>       512  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/data2.cab
>      8564  07-01-03 13:05   TMSetup/I8500/bcm43xx.cat
>     17190  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/I8500/bcmwl5.inf
>    254208  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/I8500/bcmwl5.sys
>    344923  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/ikernel.ex_
>       417  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/layout.bin
>    168448  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/Setup.exe
>      5739  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/Setup.ini
>    221462  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/setup.inx
>       628  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/setup.iss
>     45056  06-13-03 15:37   TMSetup/wltrysvc.exe
>     77824  03-21-03 10:26   setup.exe
>       378  03-21-03 10:26   setup.ini
>       524  08-20-03 13:28   Version.txt
>  --------                   -------
>   7569299                   41 files


Here's my earlier email (before finding-out about this list):

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Linuxant's DriverLoader with Broadcom drivers for Dell laptop
Date: 	Mon, 5 Jan 2004 07:31:42 GMT
From: 	cmura at ucsd.edu
To: 	Linuxant support <support at linuxant.com>
CC: 	cmura at mccammon.ucsd.edu



Dear Linuxant support, 

  In attempting to use wireless ethernet with a Linux Red Hat 9 installation on
a Dell Latitude D600 laptop, I recently became aware of your DriverLoader
software (see email below).  I installed the appropriate RPM for my kernel
(2.4.20-8), and now I have a very simple question -- when I go to the web-based
configuration page (http://127.0.0.1:8020) I am prompted for the Windows XP
device driver package (the laptop has Dell's TrueMobile 1300 Internal 802.11b/g
mini-PCI wireless interface, manufct's by Broadcom), but I'm not sure what .INF
or .NTF file I'm supposed to upload??  
  As far as I can tell, the only available driver is a file called "R65194.EXE",
which I can find by looking in (1) the CDs which came with the laptop, (2) the
most recent Dell driver download pages, and  (3) your own Windows Drivers
download page (www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php).  However, this is not
accepted by the DriverLoader configuration utility.  I would greatly appreciate
any advice on how to proceed, where to download the proper .INF file for this
broadcom chip, etc.?

Thanks a lot, 
   Cameron    







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