[driverloader] So what am I doing wrong?!?

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

please try with a 3.40.x.x version of the Windows XP driver for the Broadcom 
chipset. You can obtain this driver from the following URL :

http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R74092us.EXE

Under Linux, you can use the 'unzip' command on the .EXE file to extract the 
Windows driver. The required .INF file will be named 'AR/bcmwl5a.inf' inside 
the .EXE file.

After you have uploaded the Windows XP driver to the Web Configurator (the 
http://127.0.0.1:18020 web site), you will have to reboot because you have 
compiled your kernel without the option to unload modules.

If you are unable to connect to http://127.0.0.1:18020 again, please use the 
'dldrconfig --info' command in a root shell and try again.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


On Thursday 10 June 2004 19:27, Joe Martine wrote:
> Some time ago (around version 1.38) I had no problem getting things
> going with my WMP-11 PCI card.  I bought a license, then bought a house
> and moved and haven't messed with that computer until now.  I now have
> the machine freshly installed with Slackware 9.1, upgraded the kernel to
> 2.6.6 (with 8k stack), and installed driverloader-1.71.
>
> Everything installs fine, but dldrconfig simply says "no devices
> detected by driverloader".  I went into the configuration page and
> loaded the drivers, they load find but still nothing detected.  The
> drivers I am using are the Belkin BroadcomDriver-F5D7010-v2.4.4.exe as
> recommended here.
>
> The kernel sees the card, I have wireless extensions compiled in, ...
>
> At one point I tried going back to the 1.38 version I had used before,
> but it gives me an error at compile time.  Haven't done much else with
> that.
>
> So, knowing my luck, what am I forgetting or doing wrong? :-)  (I only
> wish and hope it is that easy...)
>
> On a possibly related note - the kernel of course has Wireless
> Extensions v16, but when I tried to compile the wireless tools with that
> (had to copy /usr/src/linux-2.6.6/include/linux/wireless.h to
> /usr/include/linux/) it errored out.  Leaving the stock wireless.h let
> it compile, but with only v15 support.
>
> The output of dumpdiag is attached.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe