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- #ndiswrapper_setup - designed to set up your bcm4318 wireless card
- #Copyright (C) 2006 Jesse N. Richardson
- #
- #This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- #modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- #as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
- #of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- #
- #This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- #but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- #MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- #GNU General Public License for more details.
- #
- #You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- #along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- #Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
- #!/bin/bash
- ckreboot()
- {
- echo "Do you want to reboot now? y/n: "
- read rb
- if [[ $rb == "y" || $rb == "yes" ]]; then
- echo "rebooting..."
- sudo reboot
- else
- exit
- fi
- }
- install()
- {
- echo "ndiswrapper_setup, Copyright (C) 2006 Jesse N. Richardson
- ndiswrapper_setup comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
- type please see the file gpl.txt in the same directory as this program.
- This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
- under certain conditions; type see the file gpl.txt in the same directory
- as this program for details."
- echo "Installing ndiswrapper..."
- logsave -a wifisetup.log dpkg -i ndiswrapper.deb
- echo "Extracting the drivers..."
- tar -xf wifidrivers.tar.gz
- echo "Deleting temporary files..."
- rm wifidrivers.tar.gz
- echo "Changing driver permissions..."
- chmod 777 drivers
- chmod 777 ndiswrapper.deb
- echo "Changing working directory..."
- cd drivers
- echo "Removing previous attempts to use ndiswrapper, if any...please ignore errors in this section..."
- logsave -a wifisetup.log rmmod ndiswrapper
- logsave -a wifisetup.log ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5a
- logsave -a wifisetup.log ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
- echo "Removing default driver..."
- logsave -a wifisetup.log rmmod bcm43xx
- echo "Installing driver through ndiswrapper..."
- logsave -a wifisetup.log ndiswrapper -i ./bcmwl5.inf
- logsave -a wifisetup.log ndiswrapper -l
- logsave -a wifisetup.log ndiswrapper -m
- echo "Modprobing ndiswrapper..."
- logsave -a wifisetup.log modprobe ndiswrapper
- echo "Moving back to original working directory..."
- cd ..
- echo "Deleting more temporary files..."
- rm -rf drivers
- rm ndiswrapper.deb
- echo "Blacklisting bcm43xx..."
- echo "# knock out the default broadcom driver that doesn't work for bcm4318 wifi cards..." >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
- echo "blacklist bcm43xx" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
- echo "Adding ndiswrapper to /etc/modules, so it should load on boot..."
- echo "ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modules
- echo "Removing excess entries from your network interfaces file..."
- cat /etc/network/interfaces | grep " lo" >> /etc/network/interfaces_new
- mv /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.backup.bcm4318_setup
- mv /etc/network/interfaces_new /etc/network/interfaces
- echo "Searching for a wifi point..."
- logsave -a wifi-setup.log iwlist eth1 scan
- logsave -a wifi-setup.log dhclient
- echo "Hopefully connected, you should be able to use the internet now..."
- echo "Installing network-manager-gnome via apt-get, this requires an internet connection..."
- logsave -a wifisetup.log apt-get --assume-yes install network-manger-gnome
- echo "Installation completed."
- rm ndiswrapper_setup
- }
- echo "This is the log of the ndiswrapper-setup script. See below for log details." >> wifisetup.log
- if lspci -v | grep "BCM4318"; then
- install
- ckreboot
- else
- echo "You don't seem to have a Broadcom Wireless card. Pass the option --force to install anyways, but that's probably a bad idea."
- fi
- if [[ $1 == "--force" ]]; then
- echo "--force option detected, forcing install." >> wifisetup.log
- install
- ckreboot
- fi
- exit
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