[Inspiron] wireless

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0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)

Code:

Chipsets known to NOT WORK:
      Broadcom          - No linux drivers, only useable with ndiswrapper or
                          linuxant wrappers around windows drivers.
                          *** UPDATE ***
                          See the bcm43xx source type entry.  There are
                          experimental reverse-engineered drivers which have
                          monitor mode support now under Linux!  If they don't
                          work, however, then too bad.
            ...
      ndiswrapper        - Anything using ndiswrapper is using WINDOWS drivers
                          AND CAN NOT BE USED WITH KISMET.

cabextract is Free Software for extracting Microsoft
cabinet files, also called .CAB files, on UNIX or UNIX-like
systems. cabextract is distributed under the GPL license. It
is based on the portable LGPL libmspack library. cabextract
supports all special features and all compression formats of
Microsoft cabinet files.

Many vendors do not release specifications of the hardware
or provide a Linux driver for their wireless network cards.
This project implements Windows kernel API and NDIS (Network
Driver Interface Specification) API within Linux kernel. A
Windows driver for wireless network card is then linked to
this implementation so that the driver runs natively, as
though it is in Windows, without binary emulation. With
ndiswrapper, most miniPCI (builtin), PCI, PCMCIA (Cardbus
only) or USB wireless network cards work in Linux with x86 or
x86-64. Although ndiswrapper is intended for wireless network
cards, other devices are known to work : e.g., ethernet
cards, USB to serial port device, home phone network device
etc.

• cabextract sp34152.exe -ddriver
  

Code:

root@inspiron:~/WORK.wifi/inspiron# cabextract sp34152.exe -ddriver
 Extracting cabinet: sp34152.exe
  extracting driver/bcm1xsup.dll
  extracting driver/bcm43xx.cat
  extracting driver/bcm43xx64.cat
  extracting driver/Bcmnpf64.sys
  extracting driver/bcmwl5.inf
  extracting driver/bcmwl5.sys
 ...
  extracting driver/setup.inx
  extracting driver/setup.iss
  extracting driver/sp34152.cva
 
 All done, no errors.

• ndiswrapper -i driver/bcmwl5.inf
  

Code:

root@inspiron:~/WORK.wifi/inspiron# ndiswrapper -i driver/bcmwl5.inf
 installing bcmwl5 ...
 

• ndiswrapper -m
  

Code:

root@inspiron:~/WORK.wifi/inspiron# ndiswrapper -m
 adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper ...
 

• ndiswrapper -l
  

Code:

root@inspiron:~/WORK.wifi/inspiron# ndiswrapper -l
 bcmwl5 : driver installed
        device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
 

Code:

sudo rmmod bcm43xx
 echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist  # OK

Code:

echo -e 'auto loniface lo inet loopbackn' | sudo tee /etc/network/interfaces
      # à adapter si nécessaire

Code:

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
 echo 'ndiswrapper' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules  # à adapter si nécessaire

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart  # à adapter si nécessaire