Search repos with the Package Manager and install.

How would I do that without internet?
I found the packages for it from the "Packages Database" that is conveniently on the side of this page, but I don't know how to install them. Could you tell me how to do that? It seems like the only, or at least the easiest, solution.

Just run this command from the terminal as root:
tazpkg install ndiswrapper.#.##.tazpkg

If it wants any dependent packages, I'm afraid you'll have to grab them from the repositories too.

Try using this ISO image for dependent packages (or for NDISwrapper itself) if you have an external HDD or shared partition. You could mount it loopback:
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/slitaz/iso/3.0/packages-3.0.iso

In SliTaz as root:
mount -o loop,ro -t iso9960 /path/to/packages-3.0.iso /mnt/emptydirectory

I've just upgraded my kernel and it has the Staging drivers included making my wifi card(s) work OOTB!

Good luck!

I really don't feel like downloading a 1.5GB file for my OS installed from a 30MB CD. And, I got ndiswrapper and Perl, which looks like was its only missing dependency, installed. I modprobed ndiswrapper, and installed my driver, but it still doesn't work. I must be missing a step, but I've never used it on Slitaz before, I did everything I did on Xubuntu. So what else do I need to do?

Is the device present?
`ndiswrapper -l`

Yeah, it looks like everything should work, but iwconfig and ifconfig don't detect anything.

I have not setup wifi in a while and the careful details I posted were deleted with the old forum but I seem to remember editing /etc/network.conf and trying the wifi as eth1 or eth0 instead of wlan0.

I never was able to connect to a secure network, only to a non-secure network that broadcast its id.

The latest slitaz might be different.

Ps- http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:start

I'll try that, but my network is secure-ish. (WEP, which I myself can crack... But I doubt anyone 'round my house can, considering most of them are adults with most likely no knowledge of linux or computers in general... But who knows, I don't talk to my neighbors. I don't even know their names.) Anyway, I'll let you know what I find in this mythical network.conf.

I was adding this link to my last post but I also will post it here to make sure you see the wifi guides-

http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:start

The network.conf has an enable yes/no switch.

You must be root to edit the conf.

# leafpad /etc/network.conf

There are supposed to be gui boxes to do setup and check for firmware too.

There is a wpa package. I never used it successfully.

Changing the yes/no switch in network.conf or changing it to eth0 instead of wlan0 did nothing. And the networking guide didn't have any useful information at all. (at least, nothing I haven't already figured out) It seems I'm stuck...

Tim,
Your wireless card plugs into a cardbus.
There is a cardbus kernel module which sometimes must be manually loaded (modprobe)before the kernel can see your network card.
Until you know the kernel recognizes your network card nothing will be accomplished.

Become root by typing su then enter,then type the password which is root followed by enter.

1.Type

root@slitaz: tazhw detect-pci

Enter
Please post results.

2.Type

root@slitaz: lspci

Enter
Is your linksys wireless card listed ? If it's not listed you will have to determine which item listed is the cardbus and modprobe it's module. yenta_socket is a common one.
You can get a listing of all the available modules with this command.

root@slitaz: modprobe -l | grep -i pcmcia

root@slitaz:lsmod

shows loaded modules

Any module that you want autoloaded on boot you add to LOAD_MODULES=
in /etc/rcS.conf

Due to Xterm's irritating inability to copy and paste text, I took a screenshot. http://theseahawk.webs.com/pics/screen2.png

Tim,

If you checked everything on the guides (wireless packages, etc.), I cannot think of anything else right now so we can wait for mojo.

You might be able to help with another problem, if you could say exactly which slitaz flavor you are using and exactly which Agere modem you have (chipset?).

Thank you.

I'm using the Slitaz 3.0 Stable, (although when I boot it says cooking, I know I downloaded stable) and I have a Lynksys WPC54G ver. 1.2. (PCI card)

Sorry, I meant the Agere 56k winmodem in your lspci results because my lspci does not show my Agere.

The slitaz flavors are sometimes confusing but the md5 is a good id-

# md5sum name.iso

I forget if you can use a long filepath in the command or cd to the folder where the iso is.

Thank you.

Tim,
Your wireless chipset the BCM4306 is supported with the b43 module.
Do the following as root.
Install linux-wireless.tazpkg b43-fwcutter.tazpkg
Download,extract,and cut the firmware.
http://downloads.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
b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta_mimo.o
The 38 firmware files are in the /lib/firmware/b43 folder
Open wireless connections

root@slitaz: subox wifibox

Drivers tab,Module: b43 ,Load button
List files button shows installed b43 firmware
Lsmod button shows loaded b43 module
Firmware: Install button downloads and installs firmware if you have ethernet connection to internet
Networks tab,Refresh button,you see access point,dbl click to connect if open or enter key
Configuration tab add key,essid,click connect,favorites tab
Add ssb and b43 to /etc/rcS.conf LOAD_MODULES=
The other main configuration file is /etc/network.conf to enable wifi at boot=yes , default interface=wlan0 and many other settings

Thanks everyone! It's working, and as proof, this message is here, posted from my Slitaz laptop! Yay!

Thanks for the positive feedback!
Please change title to: [Solved] Linksys wireless card help

So, anybody know why my wifi would spontaneously stop working? While the computer was turned on and the internet was working fine, wifi suddenly stopped working, and it hasn't been working since then. Any ideas as to why and how that could happen?

Maybe someone is standing in front of your wifi waves.

Preferably with computer next to wifi source-

Manually click start of dhcp in network configure gui box.

In xterm as root-

# ifconfig eth0 up
# iwconfig eth1 up
# iwconfig wlan0 up

Some combination or variation of those commands might be necessary depending on your setup.

Vanilla gave me an error too even though the last post worked.

Testing forum.

Edit- Worked.

I got it working, somehow my network got erased from the settings.