another step toward a working driver for Dell 1450 wireless card

[Doug Barton]

Scott Bennett wrote:

>      Meanwhile, is there any way to pry the BCMWL5.SYS and bcmwl5.inf files
> out of the R112196.EXE binary without running it under Windows XP

They are self-extracting zip archives, so using unzip will get you the
files.

> I want so desperately to stop using Windows XP, the worst operating system
> bar none that I've ever encountered in my 40 years of computing.  But I
> can't do it until I get wireless access working under FreeBSD. 

I can certainly understand the desire to use your built in wireless
card, but the options of buying an internal card that is supported and
buying a pcmcia card that is supported are also available to you.

hth,

Doug

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