wlan not working on a Asus F5R

[knbo]

:( Trying to install Ubuntu 9.04 on an Asus F5R. Everything function fine, except the wlan. Lspci provide the card to be: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311, but Asus provide: AzureWave GE-780. Adding the Broadcom STA driver, the computer find thenetwork, but can not log on. I do try to set up the original driver from Asus with ndiswrapper, but that does not function at all. Is there any solution to this problem.:confused:

[Sandhje]

Same problem here! Would really like to hear if anybody finds a solution. As soon as I do I'll post it!

[superprash2003]

post output of
1)sudo iwlist scanning
2)iwconfig

[Sandhje]

Hi,

With the help of a post on Launchpad forum I could solve my problem. If you have an ASUS F5R with BCM4311 rev01 wireless chipset, just type the following command in your terminal and you will be able to connect to the internet! :KS:KS:KS


sudo echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/wlan

To make sure you don't have to do this every time you boot, just open the terminal and do the following:


gksudo gedit /etc/rc.local

then before the line "exit 0" paste:


echo 1 | tee /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/wlan

With thanks to stenlikobra1 at launchpad :)
http://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/71530

Hope this helps anyone :cool: