Chris Searle

I have a 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 11g PCMCIA card lying around - 3CRWE154G72.

I wanted to get it up and running using debian unstable.

I've never got this card to play nice with the prism drivers that linux seems to think are the ones to use. So - let's try ndiswrapper.

Following steps are based on information from the #debian IRC channel on freenode

apt-get install build-essential ndiswrapper-source module-assistant wireless-tools
module-assistant auto-install ndiswrapper

The first command gets the stuff you need. The second builds and installs the kernel module. In this case I also needed to get ndiswrapper-utils - which it prompted for and fetched (over the ethernet LAN connection). This is good - since it needs something providing ndiswrapper-module - and that's what you're building.

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