General method for installing wireless NICs in Linux

General method for installing a wireless network card in Linux if your kernel supports your wireless network card, it is best. If not, it is recommended that you use ndiswrapper to install your wireless network card, which is much easier. I have uploaded the ndiswrapper. 1. Prepare the driver for the NIC in Winxp. The driver should be the latest, which is specified for XP. I used BCM4310, a wireless network card built in my laptop. The driver is bcmwl5.inf. Normally, you can decompress your driver to see files in a format similar to inf. Note that I have tried it in xp and vista, not available. 2. install (1) unzip: tar-xf ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz (2) into ndiswrapper-1.52: cd ndiswrapper-1.52 (3) Compile :. /configure www.2cto.com make (4) installation: make install (6) Get the Windows XP driver of the wireless network card. I have obtained bcmwl5.sys and bcmwl5.inf. (7) run the cd command to go to the directory where the driver is located (8) install the wireless NIC Driver: ndiswrapper-I bcmwl5.inf (9) to check whether the driver is installed: ndiswrapper-l will output the driver already installed
Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 installed bcmwl5 present bcmwl5 is the inf file "present" you Installed. It indicates that the NIC matches the driver and the driver is in use !!!!!!!
(10) If it can be used, load modprobe ndiswrapper (11) and write it into the configuration file: ndiswrapper-m ndiswrapper-ma ndiswrapper-mi (12). The module is automatically loaded after it is started: modprobe ndiswrapper is restarted and OK. Next, the connection is established. We recommend that you use the wicd wireless and wired connection management software, which supports WPA and WEP. Because my version is for slackware, you can download it by yourself. Unzip the installation method in the same way: tar-xf wicd.tar.gz to the decompressed directory, and compile cd wicd./configure make www.2cto.com make install
After the restart, you should be able to see the icon in the taskbar. If you do not see the icon, enter wicd & and then enter wicd-client. The icon will appear. Next, pay attention to the fact that if the connection is an encrypted wireless network, whether wep or wpa, you will prompt This network requires encryption to be enabled if you click connect directly.
This is a small triangle in the area where the signal strength is displayed on the left of the network you want to connect to. Click Next and select advanced setting, then select the network encryption method you want to connect to and set the password to connect. Ah, it took me a long time to find the reason for this problem. I finally saw this advanced option ~ Depressed.
Now that the tutorial is complete, you can access the Internet. Because the ndiswrapper module is used to load your wireless network card and does not support aircrack cracking, the network card cannot start the listening mode and is depressed. However, it is good to be able to access the Internet.