Network Wizard - Belkin/Broadcom Difficulties

Good Morning All,

I had a bit of a struggle getting my Belkin 54G card working with Puppy 4.1.1.

On versions prior to 4.1; I used ndiswrapper, the drivers from my Belkin setup disk, and all went well.

I tried Blacklisting the open source modules serveral times, but the drivers still appeared in the loaded modules column of the Wizard. The ones in question are b43, b43 legacy. I used the Blacklist function on 4.1.1 , but apparently certain driver modules were still loading ahead of ndiswrapper.

Up till this point, the power light on my card would come on, but there was no indication of network activity.

I installed both Puppy 4.1 and Puppy 4.1.1 several times thinking
that I either hadn't configured something properly, or that I just
didn't enter the right commands in the network setup sections or the
Bootmanger module sections.

I had similar problems when I first tried to use ndiswrapper on other distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mepsis) not knowing that the newer Linux Kernel (2.6) was loading it's own driver module creating a conflict. The fix was to edit etc/modprobe.d/blacklist as root and enter blacklist bcm43xx , save the file then reboot and let ndiswrapper load the Windows drivers.

I was able to come up with a "fix" for Puppy 4.1.1 by deleting all Broadcom entries in the networkmodules file and re-booting.

After deleting these entries and rebooting, the ndiswrapper module loaded, the power light came on and the network activity light also became active.

Success!

I'm not sure this is the most elegant fix, but I was getting a bit frustrated.

Best Regards,

Joe

a.k.a "DoggyDaddy59"

I own two Pembroke Welsh Corgi's, hence the name.