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by **rustong** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:54 am

I installed Zen Mini on my laptop and had trouble with my wireless card. I could not find a driver to work. But from the Zen Live CD wireless card worked perfect. So I installed Gnome 2009.1 which the wireless card works from both the Live CD and after install. I would have preferred Zen because of it smaller size. Gnome 2009.1 installed, fully updated and a few (3) added apps is 3.0GB.

Do you think my wireless will work with Zen if I use the same kernel (2.6.26.8.tex2) as Gnome 2009? Doesn't the kernel have wireless in them or am I wrong about that?

Thanks

by **sarcastic_bastard** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:59 am

Dunno. I ran the Gnome 2009.1 livecd on my laptop, and wireless (Atheros) worked fine, then installed and it didn't, had to connect ethernet and install driver from repo. Most puzzling. Would assume what was working on cd would work after install, but didn't. Not a deal-breaker, installing driver over ethernet not a huge problem, but it did require dragging the lappy from my bedroom to main work area to connect to ethernet and install from there. Nuisance, but little more.

As for Zen, can't comment, not got my copy at hand to try out. Might have to download again and try out on lappy. Will let you know if I find anything out.

PS. What wireless do you use? Intel, Atheros, etc?

by **rustong** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:43 am

PS. What wireless do you use? Intel, Atheros, etc?

Motorola (WN825G), Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g wireless lan controller. And the two drivers that I use for this controller are there listed but neither one will work. (bcm15, bcm15a)

by **slick50** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:54 pm

rustong wrote:Motorola (WN825G), Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g wireless lan controller. (bcm15, bcm15a)

Install the b43 pkg from synaptic for the zen-mini and should work fine. :wink:

by **rustong** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:27 am

Slick50
Looks like it worked and I'm downloading the update with the wireless now. What I don't understand is that I thought the drivers I needed were already there. But hay it's working I guess that's the important thing right?
Thanks again.

by **siamer** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:10 pm

(bcm15, bcm15a) it's for ndiswrapper (windows drivers)... b43 is native drivers for bradcom chips. I had broadcom wireless card 4318 and it was a lot of problems with that... For atheros card i'm using ath5k module (builded in kernel) and works perfect... :wink:

by **rustong** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:05 pm

The B43 package did work fine.

I could not get the ZEN update to work. I could download the update but there was (14?) problems and it would not load/install the update. So I went back to Gnome 2009.1, everything works and it's updated. It's just that Gnome 2009.1 is 3GB. I thought ZEN would be a little smaller? I just don't how much? I'll stick with Gnome for right now.

Thanks