I had a chance to play around with the 4G [Mandriva 2009 DVD] on my old [IBUYPOWER] laptop. Initially X wouldn’t initialize, so I hit CONTROL-ALT-BACKSPACE a couple times and that did the trick. Unfortunately my wireless network card is not being detected. So I’m going to try [NdisWrapper] or [OpenWRT] or [X-WRT] the graphical front-end. The LAN is a [Realtek 8110 SB(L)]. My wireless network driver can be found on [LinuxWireless]. I was able to get my wireless network working with the following script:
You are using the b43 driver from linux-2.6.25 or newer
Follow these instructions if you are using the b43 driver from linux-2.6.25 and newer or compat-wireless-2.6, or from any current GIT tree.
Use version 011 of b43-fwcutter.
Download, extract the b43-fwcutter tarball and build it:
wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-011
make
cd ..
Use version 4.150.10.5 of Broadcom’s proprietary driver.
Download and extract the firmware from this driver tarball:
export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR=”/lib/firmware”
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w “$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR” wl_apsta_mimo.o
Visit the [Mandriva Wiki] for tips on configuring the display. “init 3” exits the X session and “init 5” starts the X session. “uname -a” tells you your Linux kernel version so you can install the source and headers “[Linux 2.6.27-desktop-0.rc8.2mnb #1 SMP] Thu Oct 2 05:49:37 EDT 2008 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GNU/Linux”.