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.

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