configure wlan for Acer Aspire 3000/3002LCi

[hundhour]

Hi,

This machine Aspire 3002LCi is working great now, but modprobe finds a linux driver for the broadcom wlan that does not work...

When I tried installing ndiswrapper and the windows driver there was a conflict and it still did not work, but after rmmod bcm43xx, then the ndiswrapper worked fine. Find windows drivers attached...

Enjoy!

I put this in rc.local, seems to work fine now:
#!/bin/bash
#this file called from rc.local0, you can edit this file

#setup wifi
(
#tried this in modprobe.conf, no workee:
# #Acer Aspire 3002LCi, block loading of native Wifi. Use ndiswrapper and the windows native driver bcmwl5.[inf|sys].
# blacklist bcm43xx
echo
set -x
rmmod bcm43xx
ndiswrapper -l
ifconfig wlan0 up
/usr/local/bin/rutilt wlan0 --profile <yours> --dhcp --exit
set +x
) 2>&1 | perl -ne 'print "rc.local: $_";' >/dev/console

#When firewall is installed, will append lines to this file...

[tempestuous]

The native Linux bcm43xx driver may fail simply because of slight differences in Broadcom firmware for different devices. Puppy supplies the "standard" bcm43xx firmware.
The solution may be to extract the correct firmware from your Window$ driver, using the bcm43xx-fwcutter package from here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 546#115546