Reinstalled 2.10, can't get PCMCIA wifi to work again

[OldGeezer]

I have a Belkin F5D7010 (ver 5000) PCMCIA WiFi card. It worked for quite a while with Puppy 2.10. Then I had I had a hard drive problem on my old Compaq Presario 1245 and hard to start from scratch. I cannot recreate my earlier success. Here's how it plays out:

1. ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
installing bcmwl5
2. ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 : driver installed
3. modprobe ndiswrapper
4. iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

Just for drill I run Puppy 2.14 with no success so revert back to Puppy 2.10.

Okay, in Puppy 2.10 I run W.A.G. 0.3.2, select socket 0 after which I get a message saying:

wireless card active
wireless card not responding

I eject and reseat a few times with no joy.

What's keeping my card from responding? I sweat bullets trying to find a different, newer or better copy of bcmwl5.inf but no help. My Windows CD-ROM does not allow you to extract the .inf file (at least I don't know how to do that). Like I said, it worked once but I don't know where the .inf file came from. I'm stumped.

[Aitch]

try this: -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=37709
see 'guest 16th feb' for instructions
good luck

[tempestuous]

That link - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=37709
is old and outdated.
There is now a native Linux driver (bcm43xx) for Broadcom-based wifi adaptors, which many forum members are successfully using.

Puppy 2.12 onwards contains the bcm43xx driver but needs the firmware to be added -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15573

Puppy 2.10 & 2.11 need both driver/firmware to be installed. Get them here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 4670#84670

[OldGeezer]

try this: -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=37709
see 'guest 16th feb' for instructions
good luck

It worked for me, too. Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I'm one step away from replacing Windows XP on my antique laptop with Puppy.