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spectre · 12-23-2005, 06:32 PM

Okay, I just installed Linux Mandrake 10.1 and everything is running well except for my wireless card. It's the Linksys WPC11, and yes, unfortunately it's the one with the Broadcom chipset that's unsupported by wlan. After searching around a bit, I found that ndiswrapper along with the correct driver can get it to work. The only problem is that an older version (0.8) of ndiswrapper is currently installed and I can't install a newer version (at least 0.9 required for the wpc11 driver to work) until I uninstall the older version. Seems simple enough, but being a linux noob, I have no idea what to do at this point. I know how to install it once I've removed the old version, but how the hell do I get rid of the older version?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

12-23-2005, 06:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
spectre Junkie	Please help the Linux noob... Okay, I just installed Linux Mandrake 10.1 and everything is running well except for my wireless card. It's the Linksys WPC11, and yes, unfortunately it's the one with the Broadcom chipset that's unsupported by wlan. After searching around a bit, I found that ndiswrapper along with the correct driver can get it to work. The only problem is that an older version (0.8) of ndiswrapper is currently installed and I can't install a newer version (at least 0.9 required for the wpc11 driver to work) until I uninstall the older version. Seems simple enough, but being a linux noob, I have no idea what to do at this point. I know how to install it once I've removed the old version, but how the hell do I get rid of the older version? Any help is greatly appreciated. __________________ "Fuck these chains No goddamn slave I will be different" ~ Machine Head