Dell 5150 Wireless under CentOS 4.0

1. Download ndiswrapper from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

2. Install
make
make install
lspci
lspci -n

3. Identify and download Windows Driver.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/List

# Laptop: Dell Inspiron 5100
Card: Wireless 1350 (802.11b/g) WLAN miniPCI Card
Chipset: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) notice this is revision 02, below is revision 03, Idon’t know if it matters or not
pciid: 14e4:4320
Driver: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R90501.EXE
Other: This card is in the miniPCI slot of the Inspiron 5100. The driver below (R83097.exe) did not work, but this one did. To install unzip (program “unzip” works on the .exe) the exe file and use bcmwl5.inf.

Dell 5150 64MB DDR nVidia Corporation GeForce FX Go 5200 under CentOS 4.0

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7174/README.txt

Directly following the Fedora Core 3 installation I had to get the video to
work. Therefore, at boot time, I went into the grub config file by pressing “e”
and added the following to the end of the kernel line.

linux single

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
vi etc/X11/xorg.conf

Driver “nv”
(or Driver “vesa”)

with

Driver “nvidia”

In the Module section, make sure you have:

Load “glx”

You should also remove the following lines:

Load “dri”
Load “GLcore”

Reference:

http://www.ccs.neu