HOW TO: Configure wireless cards with Broadcom chipsets

[adumas]

Thank you!

[Fiction]

Now I've got a new problem and I'm hoping someone's got an idea.

Every time I have to reboot now, it takes 5-10 minutes to boot, and almost all of that time is spent on the stage configuring network interfaces and waiting for network interfaces to come up. When it finally boots, everything's working great. Any ideas? I use about 20% of my battery waiting for this thing to boot up.


What I found I had to do was to disable the ethernet interface (eth0) in order to boot more quickly.

To do this run sudo network-admin
Then select your ethernet device and click the properties button. On the next screen you will see a box that says "Enable this connection". Unchecking that box is all I did to speed up my booting.

I had the "Default Gateway Device" set to wlan0 and still had the long booting until I disabled eth0.

I am guessing the delay is because the system is trying to connect using eth0 and eventually times out and then tries to connect using wlan0 and connects right away. I could be completely wrong about that but it removed the huge delay from my boot times!

[StaticBoy]

Thanks! Only my second day using Ubuntu (or Linux for that matter) and this forum is a goldmine.

I had a couple of problems setting up my BT Voyager 1060 PCMCIA card, so I though I'd share my experiences getting things to work.

First off, the instructions in Step 2 of the original HOW TO How to add extra repositories (http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories) relates to Ubuntu 5.04, so for 5.10 the name needs changing from "hoary" to "breezy". Also, from what I can tell, there isn't a "breezy-backports" yet at either http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ or http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ (although I did notice "breezy-backports-staging"). This led to an error when executing
sudo apt-get update
until I replaced the commenting in /etc/apt/sources.list file for the backports section.

Next, it was a complete pain getting the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys files. This is because they were buried away inside a Windows Installer executable BTVoyager1060.exe (http://www.voyager.bt.com/1040_1060/downloads/BTVoyager1060.exe), so I had to run the install on a Windows system to get the files (thanks BT for being so open-minded and only supporting Microsoft OS's). I've attached the both files in the archive BTVOYAGER1060_bcmwl5.tar.gz.

The only other issue was that my router (BT Voyager 2100) was set to use WPA-PSK protection, which was OK with Windows, but not with Ubuntu. The router offers both 64-bit (which I'm using) and 128-bit (not tested) WEP, so once the changes were saved wifi worked first time! Ubuntu offers the option to enter your WEP key as either a ASCII or hex (nice).

I can also report that the signal strength doesn't work, it always reads 100%, and that disabling eth0 chops off about 2-3 minutes of boot time.

Hope that helps all the other Day 2 Newbies crying over their inoperative WiFi!

[Maverick911]

My problem is getting the wireless to start up by itself at boot. I have an HP zx5000 with integrated Broadcom BCM4306 wireless. I have been able to get it working with the latest driver from HP's website and ndiswrapper1.5 from the terminal.

I have done

ndiswrapper -m


After a reboot

lsmod -l

shows that ndiswrapper is loaded.

iwconfig wlan0

shows no WEP or key or essid assigned even though I have entered them in network settings properties for wlano and in /etc/network/interfaces.

This is what it iwconfig shows immediately after startup

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


If I enter “iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX” at the command line and then iwconfig the connection comes up.(Sometimes)

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Wireless100"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:E9:B0:78
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-71 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


I then have to go back into network settings and set Default gateway device to wlan0 and disable eth0. (It always defaults to eth0)

I've set wlan0 up with a static IP address in System>Administration>Networking and entered the WEP key and essid.

Here is what's entered in /etc/network/interface

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
script grep
map wlan0


iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.13
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1


# The primary network interface
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.0.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
wireless-essid Wireless100
wireless-keymode open
wireless-key open




auto wlan0



Although I can eventually get the wireless working by activating, deactivating, reactivating, rebooting, iwconfig wlan0 key, default gateway device...etc,etc, I'd like it to “just work”.

Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated.

I Think I've fixed it!
My Netgear router is set to WEP open mode, not restricted. There is no way to specify mode in System>Administration>Networking (It defaults to restricted) so you need to set it in /etc/network/interfaces.
The problem was those 2 lines in /etc/network/interfaces that say:

wireless-keymode open
wireless-key open

I had edited this file and entered my wireless WEP key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.
I had also entered the key and essid in System>Administration>Networking

The problem was that when the interface is activated the line wireless-keymode open would change the key from it's previous setting to "open" in both the interfaces file and the in the System>Administration>Networking wlan0 properties dialog.

With some trial and error of different commands in different orders, it is working on bootup now.
Here is what finally worked for me in the interfaces file.
# The primary network interface
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.0.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
wireless-key open XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (insert your WEP key here)
wireless-essid Wireless100 (replace Wireless100 with the essid of your network)

Remember, this assumes that you've got ndiswrapper module loading at boot and the proper drivers.

I apoligize if my explanation isn't all that clear. I'll try to write a howto that goes into detail and is laid out clearly like the original post here was. Thanks to all who's help I've read.

Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd

[hadelikaruna]

Hello, hello..

Is there anybody who can help me with this kernel crash problem ? I have just bought a Belkin wireless PCMCIA. This is the result of the lspci:

Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

Then, I followed the whole steps to install the ndiswrapper. At the end, I did modprobe ndiswrapper. What happened next was the light at my PCMCIA card turned on, however the computer still doesnt detect my wireless card. Then I do dmesg, and I found out that my kernel crash with the wireless driver,

This is part of the dmesg log.
---

[4295279.550000] ndiswrapper version 1.5 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
[4295279.575000] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5a (Belkin,02/19/2004, 3.50.21.11) loaded
[4295279.576000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
[4295279.576000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[4295279.576000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
[4295279.584000] ndiswrapper: using irq 11
[4295279.729000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000001
[4295279.729000] printing eip:
[4295279.729000] e0ce6018
[4295279.729000] *pde = 00000000
[4295279.729000] Oops: 0000 [#1]
[4295279.729000] Modules linked in: ndiswrapper rfcomm l2cap bluetooth speedstep_ich speedstep_lib cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats freq_table cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative pcmcia i915 drm video tc1100_wmi sony_acpi pcc_acpi hotkey dev_acpi i2c_acpi_ec i2c_core button battery container ac ipv6 af_packet floppy pcspkr rtc yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc tpm_atmel tpm_nsc tpm pci_hotplug intel_agp agpgart nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat dm_mod joydev tsdev evdev psmouse mousedev parport_pc lp parport md ext3 jbd thermal processor fan usbhid 3c59x mii uhci_hcd usbcore ide_disk ide_generic piix ide_core unix vesafb capability commoncap vga16fb vgastate softcursor cfbimgblt cfbfillrect cfbcopyarea fbcon tileblit font bitblit
[4295279.729000] CPU: 0
[4295279.729000] EIP: 0060:[<e0ce6018>] Tainted: P VLI
[4295279.729000] EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.12-9-386)
[4295279.729000] EIP is at 0xe0ce6018
[4295279.729000] eax: cd558b88 ebx: d8531c98 ecx: 00000002 edx: 00000000
[4295279.729000] esi: c8926004 edi: c8926768 ebp: d8531ca0 esp: d8531c24
[4295279.729000] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
[4295279.729000] Process loadndisdriver (pid: 8026, threadinfo=d8530000 task=d098b020)
[4295279.729000] Stack: c89260f8 c8926004 00000000 00000000 00000000 dcbabfa0 00000086 d7224588
[4295279.729000] 00000246 d8531c68 c0112cf8 d7224590 00000003 00000001 00000000 00000086
[4295279.729000] c89f464c d8531cc8 000a0008 e0ce5d30 00120010 e0ce5d3c 00180016 e0ce5d18
[4295279.729000] Call Trace:
[4295279.729000] [<c0112cf8>] __wake_up+0x14/0x1e
[4295279.729000] [<e0c9ca4f>] miniport_init+0xee/0x16e [ndiswrapper]
[4295279.729000] [<e0c9d789>] ndiswrapper_start_device+0x1a/0x469 [ndiswrapper][4295279.729000] [<c0115742>] call_console_drivers+0xd3/0xdb
[4295279.729000] [<c0115a68>] release_console_sem+0x2c/0x87
[4295279.729000] [<c01159c4>] vprintk+0x1b1/0x1c2
[4295279.729000] [<c01159c4>] vprintk+0x1b1/0x1c2
[4295279.729000] [<c020b666>] pci_read+0x22/0x26
[4295279.729000] [<c019fccb>] pci_bus_read_config_word+0x2f/0x43
[4295279.729000] [<c01a10e7>] __pci_bus_find_cap+0x24/0xc1
[4295279.729000] [<c01a119c>] pci_find_capability+0x18/0x1c
[4295279.729000] [<c01a1306>] pci_set_power_state+0x3d/0x147
[4295279.729000] [<e0c8f980>] ndiswrapper_add_pci_device+0x14d/0x1b5 [ndiswrapper]
[4295279.729000] [<c01a2cdd>] pci_device_probe_static+0x2e/0x41
[4295279.729000] [<c01a2d0f>] __pci_device_probe+0x1f/0x32
[4295279.729000] [<c01a2d3e>] pci_device_probe+0x1c/0x31
[4295279.729000] [<c01ebfe6>] driver_probe_device+0x36/0x54
[4295279.729000] [<c01ec0be>] driver_attach+0x39/0x6a
[4295279.729000] [<c01ec444>] bus_add_driver+0x5e/0x80
[4295279.729000] [<c01ec7a5>] driver_register+0x23/0x25
[4295279.729000] [<c01a2f01>] pci_register_driver+0x5f/0x72
[4295279.729000] [<e0c909e6>] register_devices+0x393/0x4ab [ndiswrapper]
[4295279.729000] [<e0c90b34>] wrapper_ioctl+0x36/0xaa [ndiswrapper]
[4295279.729000] [<c0152fd8>] do_ioctl+0x48/0x4e
[4295279.729000] [<c0153233>] vfs_ioctl+0x172/0x17f
[4295279.729000] [<c0153286>] sys_ioctl+0x46/0x60
[4295279.729000] [<c0102e9f>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
[4295279.729000] Code: 54 07 00 00 00 80 be 2f 07 00 00 00 74 60 6a 02 8d 45 cc 50 ff 75 fc 8b c6 8d 5d f8 e8 68 ec ff ff 84 c0 74 42 8b 45 f8 8b 50 08 <80> 7a 01 00 8d be 34 07 00 00 8b cf 75 0e 0f b7 40 04 6a 20 50
[4295279.729000] <3>ndiswrapper (wrapper_init:1830): loadndiswrapper failed (11); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'


Is there anybody who know how can I fix this problem ? I have tried to browse, and did something for 3 hours, and I got no result. What a stressful job. I am very appreciate if anybody can help me. Please accept my gratitude for the help.

Regards,

[hadelikaruna]

I have solved the problem by uninstalled the ndiswrapper 1.5 and changed it to ndiswrapper 1.1.

This site is very helpful.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com//SetupNdiswrapperHowto

Thanks a lot to the writer.

[daller]

This is the repo-version in dapper...

Is it ok???

daniel@dallap:~$ sudo apt-cache show ndiswrapper-utils
Package: ndiswrapper-utils
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 128
Maintainer: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: ndiswrapper
Version: 1.1-4ubuntu2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), perl, ndiswrapper-modules-1.1
Suggests: ndiswrapper-source
Filename: pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils_1.1-4ubuntu2_i386.deb
Size: 25676
MD5sum: a2f339da1c7aca7e8747c54be6879259
Description: Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper
Some wireless LAN vendors refuse to release hardware specifications or
drivers for their products for operating systems other than Microsoft
Windows. NdisWrapper makes it possible to use such hardware with Linux by
means of a loadable kernel module that "wraps around" NDIS (Windows network
driver API) drivers.
.
This package contains the userspace tools. The default Ubuntu kernel
already provides the required modules. If you use a custom kernel,
you might also need the kernel module package.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

daniel@dallap:~$

[evilberg]

I can't get this too work.
I suspect it's because I had wlan disabled when i threw windows out and installed ubuntu.

If someone could help i'd really appreciate it.

I have set the RadioState|0, compiled my own ndiswrapper-modules and utils (version 1.5).

berg@lappyn:~$ dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
[17179582.956000] ndiswrapper version 1.5 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
[17179583.136000] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,12/22/2004, 3.100.46.0) loaded
[17179583.148000] ndiswrapper: using irq 10
[17179584.152000] wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0e:9b:cc:a8:e7 using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4318:1468:0311.5.conf

berg@lappyn:~$ dmesg | grep wlan0
[17179584.152000] wlan0: vendor: ''
[17179584.152000] wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0e:9b:cc:a8:e7 using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4318:1468:0311.5.conf
[17179584.152000] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
[17179676.268000] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

berg@lappyn:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

berg@lappyn:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0
Password:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management max timeout:0us mode:All packets received
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I'm unable to change essid, channel e.t.c. Only thing I could change was power wich didn't do any difference. Weird thing is it does not return any error when doing "sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid <essid>" e.t.c.

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:9B:CC:A8:E7
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:9bff:fecc:a8e7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Memory:c0204000-c0205fff

berg@lappyn:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results

Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?

Oh and I'm sry, did't see this was under hedgehog. If it matters I'm using breezy badger 5.10

[bbruecker]

Everything is working fine, but after every startup I have to do "modprobe ndiswrapper". Modeprobe -m didn't help to start the driver automatically. Can somebody help?
System: Dell Latitude 600,
Network: Broadcom 1350
Thanks, Benjamin

[daller]

Everything is working fine, but after every startup I have to do "modprobe ndiswrapper". Modeprobe -m didn't help to start the driver automatically. Can somebody help?
System: Dell Latitude 600,
Network: Broadcom 1350
Thanks, Benjamin


Did you add "ndiswrapper" to the bottom of /etc/modules ???

[bbruecker]

Thank you Daller! Benjamin

[TMG]

im getting this error, i dunno whats going on...


FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted

[daller]

im getting this error, i dunno whats going on...


FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted


It's obviously a permission error!

Did you remember to add "sudo" to the start of the command?

[kalosaurusrex]

I don't mean to be rude, but I don't believe his problem is a permissions issue. I've been working with the wifi and a broadcom device all day today and finally got it working. I ran into the exact same issues, and this is what I did to fix it. I actually believe this error is some sort of compatibility issue with ndiswrapper and the kernel or something is broke in the Ubuntu ndiswrapper package. But I could be wrong.

Steps:

sudo modprobe -r bcmwl5
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-utils
sudo rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/
sudo rm -r /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper

Install the kernel-headers for your kernel. If you don't know what kernel you are using, type:
uname -a
then using synaptic (or apt-get if you prefer, search for the kernel-header that matches your kernel.
then,
sudo apt-get install gcc-3.4

Copy the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys files to your desktop, or some location that you know where it is.

(I actually needed to use the bcml5a.inf, which took some searching to figure out, take that into consideration..maybe download both and have them both ready. If when you do a ndiswrapper -l )

Go here and download/complile then install the 1.5 release of ndiswrapper
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/
Download the 1.5 tarball
tar xvfz <file_name_here>
cd <file_dir>
sudo make
sudo make install

sudo ndiswrapper -i <dir_of_file>/bcmwl5.inf

ndiswrapper -l

This steps IS most important, check and make sure the result is something like:

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present

If it's not, you probably have the wrong driver, so don't waste any more time doing any other steps. It MUST say the above to work correctly. If you just tried the bcml5.inf and it didn't work you may need the bcml5a.inf driver. Always check this step, else you would be wasting your time and energy. Make sure the driver sees the device.

Then:

sudo ndiswrapper -m

Then:

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

The next step is just as important as all the others, it wont work until you do it:

Go to the system, admin, networking, and enable, configure your wifi device and activate it. deactive your eth0 connection. (i'm assuming you just want to use the wifi..)

And it should now be working.

Can we update the how to? It IS a good how to, but it's only a partial. All steps to perform a function should always be included. Like the steps for enabling the device and such, they should be part of the how to. INV.

And my wifi now is working! Sorry if I'm not clear, let me know if there are any questions. It's been a long day. :)

I've tested this several times on breezy and it works everytime for me.

Aaron

[TMG]

im going to give this a shot man, for the time being anyhow, i broke down and ordered an ORiNOCO Gold WiFi Card...hehe...thanks a ton!

[TMG]

here is what i get when trying to compile ndiwrapper


roger@rabbit:~/ndiswrapper-1.5$ sudo make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/roger/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver'
Can't find kernel sources in /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build;
give the path to kernel sources with KSRC=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/roger/ndiswrapper-1.5/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[TMG]

man, one thing after another, so i got all that squared away, installed the driver, everything looks good but when i modprobe i get this


roger@rabbit:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
Password:
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module format

[kalosaurusrex]

Did you reboot? If not try restarting then giving that another shot..

Aaron

[cayblood]

Thanks for a great HOWTO. Worked perfectly for me. Now that I've finished the installation, can I delete the .inf and .sys files from my desktop?

[punkr0x]

Sweet! After much configuration, removal and reconfiguration, I got my wireless card working on my compaq presario V2000 using this guide. BUT...

I have disabled WEP. I dunno if I was entering it in the appropriate format or what. In the network settings panel, for my wlan0 card (ubuntu 5.10), do I enter my WEP key as (Hexadecimal) XXXXXXXXXX.... or (hexadecimal) XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX..... or in some completely different form than the two I have been (unsuccessfully) trying?

Also I should note that it seemed like I had to restart the laptop AFTER making configuration changes to the wireless router. I set my ESSID broadcast to on, but the laptop still could not see the router using

iwlist config

until after I rebooted. Maybe that is part of my WEP problem, I will keep playing with it!

[stylesuxx]

Hi @ all!
so, now i`ve spent the whole weekend trying to install my wlan but no way!
I`m really going mad now!

I`ve done everything what was described in the howto and tried some of the other things that were suposed, but with no effect!

the wireless connection is displayed in the networking screen, but when i do a scan i find nothing, i disabled wep.

stylesuxx@ubuntu:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results

stylesuxx@ubuntu:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.


if there is something else you need to know please tell me!
i`m really going nuts.


chris
sorry for my bad english

[Eagleevil]

I have compiled and installed the 1.5 release of ndiswrapper.
I got the driver installed as well and the it says driver and hardware are present.

I can't seem to get it to connect and when I run iwconfig I get

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

I get the same thing when I try to do: iwlist wlan0 scan
and it says No scan results

I have tried the version of ndiswrapper that can be installed with apt-get before and scan would work but I wouldn't be able to connect to anything so I thought I would try the newest release.

Anyone know what the problem is and how to fix it?

[ErikTheRed]

I follow kalosaurusrex's guide, and i got to the point where i modprobe the ndiswrapper driver and i get this:

FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted


Any ideas?

EDIT: Figured it out. I had to use the 64-bit broadcom driver

[schwascore]

I successfully followed the guide with no problems at all, but my wireless card will not show up in System --> Administration --> Networking or under ifconfig.

ndiswrapper -l shows:
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

I have found no errors at all, yet my wireless card does not show up. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[kalosaurusrex]

Did you reboot? also did you perform these functions?

Then:

sudo ndiswrapper -m

Then:

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

Are the lights on your wifi card active?

Aaron

[schwascore]

Thanks for the response -

Yes, i did reboot and run those commands.

My wifi card does not have lights because it is embedded in my laptop.

I ran through the listed proceedure three full times without running into any errors, however the card still does not show up.

Any other suggestions?

[kalosaurusrex]

I'm assuming it worked with windows?

What's the model of the laptop/wnic? Can you try the bcmwl5a.inf driver?

Aaron

[bribera]

Hello Everyone-

I noticed this on digg.com:
A group has been working on reverse engineering the driver for cards based on the broadcom 43xx chip, and they've recently released it. I'm going to test it out on my Linksys card tonight... but I thought others might be interested in seeing if they can get a working driver without needing ndiswrapper.

Some Options:

Main Site:
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/

Checkout SVN repository:
svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/bcm43xx/trunk

Daily snapshots are available at:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/

Project Specifications:
http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/

It would be really cool if this proves to be a viable alternative to ndiswrapper!

[schwascore]

Thanks for the help, I needed the other driver.

[wish]

great How-to, work perfectly on my dell inspiron 5160.

Thank you very much.

[asad112]

I am running an Hp Pavillion ze4900. I already have ndiswrapper installed. Can anyone point to where i need to go from here to get my wireless to work?

[evilberg]

I had it working!
Hadn't gotten it to work so i gave up. Some week later i thought i'd give it another try.
Found a page wich said i should use autowlan=1 poll=0 force_series=5020 verbose=3 usedritek=1 when modprobeing acerhk. Compiled my own ndiswrapper and sure as hell it worked.
Next day it was gone again. My light on the laptop is lit and i can use iwlist scan and find aps. But i can't add essid as before. This is really starting to be anoying.

Anyways, for you with acer laptops who can't enable the wlan card. Do this:
Compile acerhk. Modprobe with
sudo modprobe acerhk autowlan=1 poll=0 force_series=5020 verbose=3 usedritek=1

force_series doesn't have to be used anymore i think but.. Good luck

[linguizic]

I've done everything in this howto and it still doesn't work. There is nothing in the output for iwconfig. When more run 'more /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper' the output is: "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper". An interesting note: All the RadioState keys were already set to RadioState| 0. I tried setting them all to 1, but that didn't work. Does anyone have any clue as to what's going on here?

BTW- is it necessary to have both the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys on your desktop? It doesn't appear that anything gets done to the .sys. I don't have it on my desktop, maybe I'll try it.

[evilberg]

I've done everything in this howto and it still doesn't work. There is nothing in the output for iwconfig. When more run 'more /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper' the output is: "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper". An interesting note: All the RadioState keys were already set to RadioState| 0. I tried setting them all to 1, but that didn't work. Does anyone have any clue as to what's going on here?

BTW- is it necessary to have both the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys on your desktop? It doesn't appear that anything gets done to the .sys. I don't have it on my desktop, maybe I'll try it.

Afaik you don't have to save the .sys-files. And yeah it was changed to 0 for me to. Have tried 1 and 2 both disables the wlan completly.

I have notices something else about IRQ. Can this have anything to do with the card not working?


[17179585.932000] ndiswrapper version 1.6 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
[17179586.052000] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,12/22/2004, 3.100.46.0) loaded
[17179586.052000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 10
[17179586.052000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[17179586.060000] ndiswrapper: using irq 10

[galderz]

Just registered and this is my first post:

installed linux for the first time ever yesterday and managed to get the wireless network card working the second time around!

thanks for this excellent how-to.

i'm loving ubuntu!

[grsing]

Argh, I had it working this morning, now it seems to be working, except I can't get it to connect to any APs. Here's the output of iwconfig, if it helps:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Any suggestions? If you need any more information, I'm happy to oblige (it's a Dell D600 with the Dell 1300 Broadcom chip). Thanks!

PS: WiFi Radar doesn't seem to be picking up any APs, either (I know they're out there).


Edit: Solved, I'm just stupid and didn't realize that at some point I had turned off the wireless while in Windows. Works now, thanks anyway, and thanks for the great howto!

[aredridel]

for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
done

Close! The rewriting of the config files doesn't work since sudo only applies to the cat command, not the whole pipeline. More easily:

for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo sed -i -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' $conffile
done

The -i means "in-place edit", and is possibly sed's coolest trick.

To make the driver load at every boot, add "ndiswrapper" to the list in /etc/modules --

sudo gedit /etc/modules

and add just "ndiswrapper" at the end of the list.

[rajesh.balu]

I performed all of the steps but couldn't get my card to work. In the Admin->Networking box, I dont see an entry for wlan0. When I do
sudo ndiswrappler -l
I get: bcmwl5 Invalid driver!
When I try to start over by cleaning up with this:
sudo modprobe -r bcmwl5
I get: FATAL: Module bcmwl5 not found.
ANy ideas? Anywhere else I can check for any logs?

[kalosaurusrex]

Have you tried to use the bcmwl5a driver? Sounds like your card doesn't like the bcmwl5 driver.

[killab]

:D :D :D :D :D

Thank you!!!!
Thank you!!!!
Thank you!!!!
Thank you!!!!
Thank you!!!!Thank you!!!!
Thank you!!!!Thank you!!!!Thank you!!!!Thank you!!!!Thank you!!!!Thank you!!!!Thank you!!!!Thank you!!!!Thank you!!!!

I feel a little newbish for not figuring out this part

for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
done

I was never prompted for the password and I was denied access.
I needed to su in to a root console first in order for it to work.

But after that little hurdle.... SUCCESS!!!!


Thanks again.

[Joel.s]

Thanks for a good howto!

I've followed the howto several times without any luck.
When i was in mood of stop trying i turned broadcast ssid on on my AP. Then suddenly i could see the network but couldnt connect. Then i tried booth System-Administration-Networking and the prompt way. -No succes

Then i realised that i had to convert the ascii-key on the AP to Hex. Suddenly i was connected wireless!

Hope my experiences could help somebody!

[Anivair]

1. Copy the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys files to your desktop

umm . . . I don't have these files. Should I? I just installed breezy and I'm trying to follow these instructions, but I lack these files and it's obviously a problem.

Anyone?

[kalosaurusrex]

Do a google search dude. Seriously.

okay here ya go:

http://www.kalosaurusrex.com/Belkin%20FD7001%20Drivers/

Try the bcmwl5.inf first then bcmwl5a.inf.

Post any issues, I hope you have none.

Aaron

[MetalMusicAddict]

Anivair. Please read through the thread or search the thread next time. Its been refrenced a couple of times. Reading is an important step of learning here.

[Anivair]

Broadcom wireless cards are tricky to set up in ubuntu

No joke!

it took me 3 days and in the end I had to use the a inf file, but your howto made it happen. thanks a bunch.

[kalosaurusrex]

I'm glad you got it working! Congrats! Welcome to the world of Ubuntu and Wireless. :)

Sorry if I came off a bit rough.

Take it easy!

Aaron

[Anivair]

Anivair. Please read through the thread or search the thread next time. Its been refrenced a couple of times. Reading is an important step of learning here.

Sorry. The reason the first 2 days weren't working is because I only had about an hour to dedicate to it at a time. today i actually sat down and did the work and it was cake.

[zossz]

This how-to was a GREAT resource for me. One sweep through the directions and the only hiccup was a need to throw this command into a shell script before bash quit puking on the context:

for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
done

...surfing free and easy ;)

[awahl]

I feel like I'm raining on the parade here--- but I have been unable to find joy with my broadcom laden pci card (belkin)- I tried the dell drivers, the belkin drivers (both bcmwl5 & bcmwl5a) - made sure my radio-state was set correctly, etc.

What's puzzling me is why I cannot set my essid (using iwconfig) unless I am in auto mode. (sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode auto). I can set via networking in gnome, and my /etc/network/interfaces file is correct- but when I sudo iwconfig wlan0 - I get ESSID off/any - Anybody else have that problem?

Ndiswrapper is installed and working fine, driver/hardware present, etc- I've tried everything including forcing the ap (again via iwconfig)- I opened up my router to broadcast and remove wep- Still...no joy....:(

Nevertheless- this IS a great how-to, and if I do find a solution (or the error in my ways)- I will update you all.

[greymaiden]

Hi,

Thank you so much for taking the time to offer such easy to follow steps. Unfortunately, not only did this method not work for me, but it seems to have caused a problem: after I followed these directions, GNOME got really slow. When I login it now takes five minutes for the desktop to load, and when I attempt to acess system -> administration -> networking it also hangs for about five minutes.

I posted a separate help request, but I was wondering of you could tell me how to undo your original instructions? (I'm a newbie - obviously alas - so please be specific!).

Thanks,
Jamie Lynn

[DerDon]

Unfortunately I just managed to read the first 5 pages of this thread. That's why I just post my problem.

I followed the instructions given on the first page to install my Belkin F5D7000 wireless card. But I think that it didn't work, because if I write "sudo modprobe ndiswrapper" following error message occurs:
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted

What can I do to make my card working?

HP

[mrfinch]

I did all that, with BCMWL5A.inf ... I restarted and my Adapter has a partially illuminated light.

On LSUSB I get:
finch@neith:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 050d:7051 Belkin Components

NDISWRAPPER -L gives:
finch@neith:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5a driver present

But on the Network jobby it doesn't have anywhere to add a 'wlan0' connection. I did a 'modprobe ndiswrapper' but it doesn't do much help as far as I can see.


Any suggestions?

[redheaddiesel]

I have an IBM Thinkpad 600 (just 600) and a Dell truemobile 1300 wi fi card. My problem with the above instructions is twofold:

1) I am not connected to the internet yet.
2) There are no drivers on the laptop.

So, I can stick stuff on there via a jumpdrive from another computer, but I'm not sure what to get, or where to put it, or how to install it once it is there.

Did I mention that I am a total Newbie? Thanks for your patience!

Matt

[tekwarren]

I've went over the tutorial several times and read through some of the initial problems some people had the possible solutions but I can't seem to get past this step using either driver. I have tried to remove ndiswrapper-utils and reinstall with synaptic as suggested but still get stuck here:

heath@ubuntu-Heath:~$ for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
> sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
> done
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301:103C:12F3.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:0E11:00E7.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:103C:12F4.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:103C:12F8.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:103C:12FA.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:103C:12FB.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324:103C:12F9.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324:103C:12FC.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324:103C:12FD.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324.5.conf: Permission denied
heath@ubuntu-Heath:~$



EDIT: ok i'm not sure what i did well I do but as to why I don't know :P I ran: sudo modprobe ndiswrapper and ...*pushed the button to turn on the wireless on my laptop* and the light comes on AND it shows up in the network devices...so I guess i'm good to go...time test!


Thanks for the HOW-TO

[eljaco]

Hey, I recently gave up on Windows and decided to go Ubuntu on my laptop. I'm having problems (as you can guess) with my Dell TrueMobile 1300 on my Inspiron 8500. I followed the HOWTO but I got
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid argument

after rebooting and running sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
I am using the bcmwl5, but I already tried using bcmwl5a and it didn't work.

Also, when I ran the for loop, I got the following warnings:
> for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
> sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
> done
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301:1028:0002.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301:1028:0407.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4307.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:1028:0001.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:1028:0002.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324:1028:0001.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324:1028:0002.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324.5.conf: Permission denied


Thanks in advanced.

[parad0x]

I got the driver installed, ndiswrapper says its working and hardware is present. I put ndiswrapper in the last line of /etc/modules, did sudo modprobe ndiswrapper and I still can't get the device to show up in the networking properties. Any hints?

[Frizguru]

Hey, I'm newer to Linux, and have spent about 10 hours now trying to get my Wireless to work. I have seen tons of sites saying what to do, but nothing seemed to work. Yours was the easiest to understand, but when I rebootedmy system, nothing worked. I continue to get error messages, and nothing happens.

[joepotter]

I got the driver installed, ndiswrapper says its working and hardware is present. I put ndiswrapper in the last line of /etc/modules, did sudo modprobe ndiswrapper and I still can't get the device to show up in the networking properties. Any hints?


I get the same here. No errors, just no working wireless card.

[evilmrt]

Hey folks, I've got a huge headache from trying to get my Belkin F5D7001 wifi card working in Ubuntu. I'm posting this in windows :P

After installing ndiswrapper from source...

I'm running into a couple problems. After modprobing ndiswrapper (everything before that step went fine), the console just hangs. Dmesg gives me this:

[4294691.271000] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
[4294691.315000] ndiswrapper (wrapper_init:173): loadndiswrapper failed (1792); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
[4294691.320000] ndiswrapper (wrapper_init:180): ndiswrapper: initialization failed

helllllpppp :???:

[Leviathan148]

i used the how to, everything worked no errors nothing but still my wifi card does not show up in the networking menu. Anything thoughts?

[YumaJim]

I am tring to compile ndiswrapper-1.8 and the following messages come up:

jim@tesla:~/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.8$ make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jim/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.8/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build SUBDIRS=/home/jim/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.8/driver \
DRIVER_VERSION=1.8
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 11: gcc-3.4: command not found
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 12: gcc-3.4: command not found
make[2]: gcc-3.4: Command not found
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386'
CC [M] /home/jim/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.8/driver/hal.o
/bin/sh: gcc-3.4: command not found
make[3]: *** [/home/jim/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.8/driver/hal.o] Error 127
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/jim/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.8/driver] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jim/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.8/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Looks to me like I need gcc-3.4 - where do I get that or can I edit
some file to use the loaded gcc-4.0.2. gcc-3.4 is not on my system.

Thanks,
YumaJim

[StaticBoy]

I've been watching the posts on this forum with great interest. Trying to get my wifi card to work was the first sticking point I had with Ubunutu i.e. about 2 hours after starting the installation. It is this sort of thing that has forced a return to Microsoft Windows XP. I really like the ideals of open source and enjoy the community experience, but at the end of the day I need to get my job done, and all too often it ends up taking a very long time to get it set up. And I still haven't found a way to VPN into the company network and run a Remote Desktop in Ubuntu even though I've read plenty of threads.

Can you imagine your average user (sending email, browsing the net, writing a letter and possibly a few digital photos) having to compile their own drivers using a command line interface?

My own Linux experience is limited, but I am an experienced software developer and consider that I can turn my hand to most things computer related. Getting a wifi card to work shouldn't have taken as much effort as it did.

On the upside though I just tried Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview. It lasted all of 3 hours before it was uninstalled! It was just like FireFox 1.5 (tabbed browsing, Google search box, RSS, etc) except that it wasn't done half as well. And it had some quite unpleasant bugs...

[byen]

Staticboy. I agree with what you say. Infact, it was what I felt too when I first tried fedora and could not get my Broadcom wifi card to work.I was a new user and knew squat about using the teminal. So I did what most new users would do. I went back to windows ! Now.. after a couple of months a buddy of mine tried the same distribution (fedora 3) and suprisingly his wifi card just worked outside the box! I was amazed ,as he could get something up and working without having to compile or install anythin while I toiled for ages to get my card up and running. So I tried again...found this thread and have been an Ubuntu User for 9 months straight!
So what did I learn here? It was not Ubuntu's (linux) developers fault that the drivers were not released for certain hardware...it is the hardware maker who has decided to ditch Linux support. So the only way around is by using techniques such as these to get things working.

But all in all.. in the end, I hear you. Linux would have been so much more popular and widely used if not for these issues. Well someday....

[StaticBoy]

Byen. I too hear what you say! I should add that in actual fact for personal use I am still using both Ubuntu and Kubunutu on the family laptops. Being a "techy" of course I've got a server at home (an old Compaq Proliant 800) which is running Fedora Core 4. All of these operating systems have been great for home use, runnning all the usual everyday software: FireFox, Thunderbird, etc, and overall with considerably less hassle than when it was all running Win2000/WinXP (and infinitely cheaper too!).

My problem is trying to ditch WinXP on the company laptop. I've got a spare hardrive that I can swap to experiment with Linux, but there are still a few things that I need Windows for. For example, when a client sends me a Visual Studio .Net C# project what else can I open it with other than VS.Net to debug it?

Sorry, I'm probably getting a bit off-topic for this thread, but I did manage to get my WiFi card to work on both Ubunutu and Kubunutu, so if any one has a BT Voyager 1060 PCMCIA card I may be able to help.

[macaodha]

hi there,
i trying to get my broadcom 4306 working on my hp amd64. when i load ndiswrapper it says device present using the bcwmla.inf (or what ever its called), but there is no wireless listng uner networking.
when i use the iwconifg command all i get is
l0
eth0
sit0
any idea what the sit0 is. why doesnt wlan0 get listed.

[macaodha]

hey YumaJim i feel your pain. i also tried to complie the latest ndiswrapper but with no luck. i got the same error as you.

[YumaJim]

Macaodha - did you read jonny's how to at the beginning of this thread?
If so did it work for you. I am going to try it. Will post results later.

[fizzybrain]

Sorry, I am still positively soaking behind the ears at this ubuntu thing.

Err. Where do the files in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcml5/ come from? My directory is empty. Everything up to the setting of the RadioState seems to be fine

This topic is a bit huge - doesn't it deserve to be split up? I mean the pages of people saying "thanks it worked" are very heartening, but it takes up a hull of a lot of space (and time ... or should that be "space-time"?). I wonder if there is any better way of organising it (sorry, still also unfamiliar with how these posts are organised). Someone has probably suggested this on page 18 or so, but it would take an age to find it.

Share and Enjoy

[Scotland]

Sorry if this is on previous pages but my Broadcom 440x/10/100 wired connection was detected and works 'automagically' on breezy 5.1 on a Dell Inspiron 9400.

Waiting Q1 2006 for Intels wireless driver for 3945 abg wireless.

Dougie.

[Disastorm]

doesnt work for me. at the end when i try sudo modprobe ndiswrapper it says
Error inserting ndiswrapper (some stuff in here/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted

Ive tried with both bcmwl5 and bcmwl5a

[evilmrt]

WOOHOO! Finally got it to work! I used the newest 1.9 ndiswrapper (1.8 wouldn't work)....and it compiled and installed! \\:D/

This is great! And I was about to give up on ubuntu :-#

I should mention that I have a Belkin F5D7001 card, and used the bcmwl5a.inf file from the AR folder in the driver package found on the Belkin website. I basically just followed the installation directions on the ndiswrapper site, and followed that up by configuring the ubuntu networking panel. Works!!! :-D

If anyone needs help, I'll try to help!

ALSO:

Is there a utility I can install to see connection strength/info...maybe a scanner as well? A gui util please.

EDIT:

Found GTKWifi, in the 3rd party forums. Just what I was looking for! Works good as well.

[ztirffritz]

I've been watching this thread for several months. Between getting my ATI 200m card working and the Wireless card, Linux has been a disaster. I know that the OS is not at fault, but rather equipment vendors for not supporting it. I would strongly recommend that every single person reading this thread should right an angry letter to ATI and Broadcom. That would do more to solve this problem than posting angry letters. I really think that the time has come for an opensource hardware movement. Imagine Apple as an opensource movement. We throw our resources toward designing, manufacturing, and selling quality equipment, but it is open source, so we control the whole process from top to bottom and it WORKS with Linux, Apple, and Windows. It would be a win-win-win scenario. Now if we could just get Shuttleworth to foot the bill...

[YumaJim]

I found the Broadcom driver files on my XP Windows Partition at:
C:\Driver\Wireless.

The built in PCI cards works very well with Windows so here's hoping I can get it working as well with Kububtu. System is an Emachines M6807 laptop.

[YumaJim]

Here's the attchments per previous post....

YumaJim

[tjputerboy]

Thanks for the information I have mine working just after a couple of hours and happily posting now from my Ubuntu Dell laptop via a wireless connection. My Specs are the following:

Dell Precision M50 Laptop
Ubuntu 5.10
Dell TrueMobile 1300
ndiswrapper 1.2
bcmwl5.inf driver
Linksys WRT54G

Thanks again for this wonderful community, being a linux noob I couldnt have done it without this forum.

[hyde200j]

Could someone please help me? I've been trying for a sickening long time on this and am in desperate need of advice.
I have a BCM 4306 and I managed to install ndiswrapper and the driver with relative success. So ndiswrapper -l shows bcmwl5a installed and present.
After that, nothing can be done to configure the connection. I followed all of the steps in the first post and looked at the wiki as well; nothing works.

For example, iwconfig will always show AP equal to 00:00:00... and ESSID as "off/any" regardless of what I do to change them (as far as I know). Maybe this alone is the problem, but even that I cannot fix.

Please help. Any advice you have is appreciated.

[YumaJim]

Could someone please help me? I've been trying for a sickening long time on this and am in desperate need of advice. I have a BCM 4306 and I managed to install ndiswrapper and the driver with relative success. So ndiswrapper -l shows bcmwl5a installed and present. After that, nothing can be done to configure the connection. I followed all of the steps in the first post and looked at the wiki as well; nothing works. For example, iwconfig will always show AP equal to 00:00:00... and ESSID as "off/any" regardless of what I do to change them (as far as I know). Maybe this alone is the problem, but even that I cannot fix. Please help. Any advice you have is appreciated. I had to very same problem. Go through the procedure found at: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation starting at the "Install Windows Driver" I am writting this using my Broadcom card now. It is very important to do the "dhclient wlan0" or you will not be able to connect to any web sites.:-) YumaJim

[swkiller]

Hey everyone

I've recently installed Kubuntu and am trying to set up my wireless drivers through ndiswrapper. I've followed the steps on page 1 and have skimmed through most of the other pages in search for my answer but nothing has helped :(

I've followed the steps and never can get wlan0 to show up when i type in iwconfig. My driver is the bcmwl5

Has anyone else run into this problem, and actually fixed it?

side note:
I THINK I was able to set up this driver back when I used ubuntu...so I see no reason why it wont work now...although I may be thinking of my past laptop that I tried it with.


EDIT:

I went and built ndiswrapper from the new test source and got my driver to be reconized. Now I have a problem when I go to enable my wireless driver, that it disables itself....any help? :(

[Spagnutty]

I'm trying to help a friend with her Dell laptop. It has a BCM4306 wireless chipset. Will it be possible to get her wifi working just while using an Ubuntu Live CD? Or would we have to do an actual install?

[esmclega]

I have been trying to get my wireless working on my HP DV4000 with on board Broadcom wireless for about a week now. I've tried just about everything in this thread but still can't get it working. Ubuntu sees my network and my neighbor's network but won't connect. I was trying to upgrade to a newer version of ndiswrapper (I'm using 1.1) but had problems with the installation. I was following the instructions on page 6 but it seems like anytime I stray from Synaptic I fall on my face. Does anyone know of any repositories that have a newer version of ndiswrapper than the Ubuntu ones?

[hotpurple]

Hi, I've followed the instructions through several times now. I keep getting an error message about the drivers.


ndiswrapper -l

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!



Any ideas anyone?

Cheers

Chris

[Allianz]

I'm quite new using linux, and i've heard alot of good things about ubuntu. I'm trying to install my wlan but it seems im doing something wrong. I'm following the steps below, maybe i'm missing something or i'm doing it wrong, but i dont have any RadioState in any of my file in the folder /etc/ndiswrapper/....

thx
Allianz

[LinuxKid]

Can you do this using live cd and is there any clearer instructions on how to set up repositories

[pgoetz]

The instructions provided at the beginning of this thread will not work with newer laptops unless you get a newer ndiswrapper first -- the ndiswrapper module which ships with Breezy -- version 1.1 is too old. After wasting hours trying to find an "easy" way to build a package from newer source, I gave up and downloaded the ndiswrapper source tgz from sourceforge, installed the kernel-headers and gcc-3.4 packages, and simply ran "make" and "make install". I consequently had functional wireless on my new Dell Latitude D610 with Broadcom 1370 wireless chip.

If you do this, you will need to set the following entry by hand in the /etc/network/interfaces file:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up modprobe ndiswrapper
post-down rmmod ndiswrapper

[Viriiguy]

I have been trying for months to get my wireless working on my M6805.
I have tried every method that I have read ont he net, and none of them will work for longer than one use.

Is there anyway I can get a Norton Ghost image of someone's WORKING Ubuntu on an Emachine's M6805?

I just simply cannot make this work. :(

[YumaJim]

Hi, I've followed the instructions through several times now. I keep getting an error message about the drivers.


ndiswrapper -l

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!



Any ideas anyone?

Cheers

Chris
Did you use the bcmwl5a.inf and bcmwl5.sys. It's quit important to use the
bcmwl5a.inf and not the bcmwl5.inf as the 'a' version is the ascii (text) version of the file that can be read by the system. I also had the bcmwl5.bin file with the other driver files just incase the system needed it.

YumaJim

[clearscreen]

I'm getting so frustrated.. just like anyone else, the wlan0 device shows up perfectly, it's in iwconfig, it's in ifconfig, ndiswrapper list displays that hardware is found, but it just does NOT find any AP's... All the .conf files already have RadioState set to 0.. I dont know if that's a good sign.. The light just doesnt come on, it doesnt come on when I install acer hk and I press it either.. :( I hate broadcom right now

[clearscreen]

Ok I've had it.. Im going to install 64bit linux so it supports acer_acpi which supposedly has to solve the problems.

[YumaJim]

Did do the following:
sudo dhclient wlan0 seems that one has to do this to get an Ip address assigned.

YumaJim

[scottporad]

I'm getting so frustrated.. just like anyone else, the wlan0 device shows up perfectly, it's in iwconfig, it's in ifconfig, ndiswrapper list displays that hardware is found, but it just does NOT find any AP's... All the .conf files already have RadioState set to 0.. I dont know if that's a good sign.. The light just doesnt come on, it doesnt come on when I install acer hk and I press it either.. :( I hate broadcom right now
Have you checked the BIOS to verify that the wireless is turned on? I've experienced many of the frustrations as the people on this thread. I had a brand new Dell 600m, wiped the drive, then installed Ubuntu...wlan0 coudln't talk to the access point. Ug!

Well, it turns out that Dell configures the BIOS to have the wireless off by default, then they have a service (Dell Quick Set) that runs under Windows that turns it on. Obviously, since I wiped the drive and am running Ubuntu, Dell Quick Set wasn't getting the job done.

Anyhow, once I edited the BIOS to have the wireless be on by default, everything worked properly.

[mooswa]

Ok I've had it.. Im going to install 64bit linux so it supports acer_acpi which supposedly has to solve the problems.. :) Wish me luck lol

You don't need to install 64bit linux for acer_acpi to work. I have seen several posts where peple for some reason associated acer_acpi with 64bit only. That is not true. I think the confusion comes from the fact that acer_acpi was developed to support 64bit because the way acerhk used to work was not available for 64bit (direct calls to BIOS or something like that). However, acer_acpi works for BOTH 32 and 64 bit. I have Acer TravelMate 4404 with ndiswrapper-1.10 and acer_acp-0.3 (both build from source) and my wireless works just fine on the 32 bit Breezy Badger.

EDIT: Also note that after enabling wireless with acer_acpi the light doesn't go on immediately. Don't get alarmed. You need to do ifup to see the light blinking.

[NotJayKay]

Ugh, for the life of me I cannot get my stupid WiFi working on Ubuntu. I did have it working following these directions http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25683 last night. However I screwed up my MBR earlier and couldn't recover so I had to flatten and reinstall everything.

I tried doing it again and now it wont appear in my stupid network connections. The only difference I can think of, is that I might be using newer drivers for my Broadcom WiFi from Dell as I had to download them tonight.

(For what it's worth, I'm on a Dell Inspiron 2200 that has the MiniPCI 1370 WiFi.)


jaykay@jaykaylaptop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present


This shows me that the driver was installed correctly and the hardware seems to be present.

From digging around the ndiswrapper FAQ, it seems like my driver isn't compaitble with Linux. Can someone help me out here?


Edit: This is the pertinent part of the dmesg


[4294930.003000] ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
[4294930.011000] ndiswrapper (import:238): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:strrchr
[4294930.011000] ndiswrapper (import:238): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:MmFreeContiguousMemorySpecifyCache
[4294930.011000] ndiswrapper (import:238): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:MmAllocateContiguousMemorySpecifyCach e
[4294930.011000] ndiswrapper (import:238): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:MmGetPhysicalAddress
[4294930.011000] ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:456): unable to prepare driver 'bcmwl5'
[4294930.030000] ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_load_driver:92): loadndiswrapper failed (11); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'



and


jaykay@jaykaylaptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

[kalosaurusrex]

Did you compile the ndiswrapper or do a sudo apt-get ndiswrapper? Honestly I've found that the compiled version seems more stable for me. and there is always a slight lag in when a version of software is released and when it's available as a deb package. as well have you tried the bcmwl5a driver? I've found that it worked better for my wifi card. However I have a belkin broadcom based.

Aaron

[NotJayKay]

Did you compile the ndiswrapper or do a sudo apt-get ndiswrapper? Honestly I've found that the compiled version seems more stable for me. and there is always a slight lag in when a version of software is released and when it's available as a deb package. as well have you tried the bcmwl5a driver? I've found that it worked better for my wifi card. However I have a belkin broadcom based.

Aaron

I actually ended up searching around the forums and found this thread here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=120383 which recomeneded to try the Acer drivers which I found here ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3020_5020/driver/80211g.zip

And guess what, it works!

[umuro]

Well, I tried the suggestions and failed.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with Dell True Mobile 1300. I have Ubutun 5.10

I get:

ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

However, the wireless card does not appear in the list of interfaces:

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.

I copied bcmvl5.inf and bcimwl5.sys from the working Windows XP installation. Failing on that I also downloaded from Dell and unzipped the setup. Still failed.

I searched found lots of pages about ndiswrapper. More or less they are telling the same thing.

Is there anybody who could use Dell Inspirion with Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN?

I am hopeless now.

[umuro]

Strange but... I installed ndiswrapper graphical front end and...

Now I see wlan0

[leon-1]

I am still playing with Ubuntu, but I had a very strange happening with a broadcom chipset on SuSE a couple of weeks ago (I have a linksys card with with a bcmwl5 chipset in one of my other computers).

I loaded ndiswrapper, got everything working and rebboted later, afterwards when it re-booted I could not get it to work. In the end I changed a name in my config file from wlan0 to the result from a lspci. So the device name was;

bus-pci:00:00:0a.0

afterward the card worked without a problem, if I get a chance I'll see if I can recreate it so that peple can see what sort of results you get.

[kenny23692]

I'm pretty new to Ubuntu, just started like 2 days ago and when trying to install wireless care i got this after doing sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
I using the drivers i downloaded from the site..

ken23@ubuntu:~$ for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
> sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
> done
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318.5.conf: Permission denied
ken23@ubuntu:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -l

any responses would help

[hanspb]

Hi, I don't have the patience to read all 35 pages of this thread, but I can't get it to work. I have a HP Pavilion laptop with a Broadcom wireless card, which of course works flawlessly in Windows. I got as far as trying to substitute Radiostate|1 with RadioState|0 in the config files manually, because the automatic method failed. then I discovered that RadioState was not mentioned in any of the files. Then I found out that Ubuntu does not even know I have a wireless card! System>Administration>Networking does not mention my wlan0. Also the Device Manager lists my card as Unknown. But the vendor is recognized as Broadcom Corp. There is a light near the wireless on/off button, but the light is always on, at least in Linux. Haven't tried pressing that button in Windows...

Anyway, ndiswrapper seems to be installed:

hpb@HPlaptop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
hpb@HPlaptop:~$

but
hpb@HPlaptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.



so I guess I just wonder if there is any point in continuing with the guide? At the moment I am not within reach of a wireless network either...

Edit: Stupid me...
I just tried to reboot anyway, and my wireless card shows up all right. So I'll just wait until I get home to see if it all works!

[brallan]

YES! it works!!!!

I have an ASUS laptop Z9200U with an internal wlan card, which as far as i could tell was something generic, called an "ASUS 802.11g". In XP under properties it mentioned broadcom, and sure enough, it was a broadcom chipset. when i got back into ubuntu I mounted the xp partiton, searched for bcmwl5 and the sys and ini files came up in <programs><Asus><wlan card utilities><driver><WL-103&WL-120&WL-100g&WL-103g&WL-120g>. i followed the instructions, ignored the error messages, and it works wonderful!

is there a database where i can send data about my card so a hardware probe on dapper install could automate the ndiswrapper install for anyone with this card? since all i did was cut and paste, i'm guessing it could be automated, no?

the ubuntu community is amazing! thanks so much.

brian russell (barcelona)

[fezzik]

I have had this working several times now. I recently tried to install Debian and it messed up my whole computer apparantly my computer scares the Debian Kernel cause it tends to get all paniced. Anyway after all that and I reinstalled Ubuntu 5.10 from scratch I can't get the stupid wifi working. I have done everything on this list except for using a newer Ndiswrapper cause everytime I try to install it it fails cause it is looking for some file that doesn't exist. Besides I used to get it working with no trouble before. Like I say I have done this several times before. Including three fresh installs and two new kernel compiles. Everything seems to come up fine like everything is working fine except the radio. I tried doing the RadioState thing but the .conf files don't have it. I tried newer Ndiswrappers but installing them always failed cause they were looking for a file that didn't exist or directory or something. Can someone please help. I don't know what I am missing. Like I say it used to be fairly simple to get it going now it is like nothing works despite my doing everything exactly as I always have.](*,) ](*,) :confused: :confused: :-k :-k :mad: :mad:

[utopcats]

PLS help me ......
i am very new user of ubuntu ..
i have work on wireless problem about 2 mouth now ....
and after the frist clean install of 5.10...

then i have try every you say which inculde:
install ndiswrapper and the driver .....with no problem....
and the *.conf file are already 0 ......in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/....
i even put ndiswrapper at the end of modules and hopedully it will make the ndiswrapper boot up it sef .....but it doesn;t work either
but how come the wireless light just doesn't turn on ......

[utopcats]

i sorry that i have forget to say i am using ferrari 4005 ....

[sithia]

I've been reading up on wireless tonight and I've managed to get wireless to scan and detect my AP but that's as far as I've gotten. Everytime I try to run iwconfig I get a warning about the version of Wireless Extension. Seems I've got v17 but I need v18. From what I can tell, this is built into the kernel so I'd need to build a new kernel from source to update this. Am I correct in this? I'm running the latest 2.6.12-10-amd64-generic (updated 5 minutes ago) and have build Wireless Tools v27 yet I still get the same warnings every time. I tried over and over to connect to my AP with iwconfig until I realized "key restricted" was trying to send a WEP key but I'm using WPA/TKIP which seems wasn't supported until v18 of Wireless Extension. I realize I could change my AP settings and run "key open" but that's not an option in my neighborhood. Way too many people crammed in here to open my bandwidth.

Can someone confirm any of this for me? Is a newer kernel with v18 built-in on the horizon anytime soon?

[fezzik]

I have now figured out what the problem was. Last time I had everything working I went a long time without redoing anything. During that time I had set up my router to stop broadcasting the essid. I not only didn't know that I had done that (it had been quite a while) but I didn't even know what the name of it was. I had changed it and Lord knows I didn't remember doing that. I went into the set up and reset all the settings and now I have wireless working beautifully. Now I can get back to the important things like getting dvd's working and mp3's and internet videos. Freaking Microsuck Monopoly.

Anyway thanks for all your help everyone. I really was starting to feel like a Linux idiot. Turns out I am just a networking idiot still. And that is ok with me.

[Llwyd]

Great post,

I have followed many instructions in this thread which seems to be working.

My issues are this do you have to use WEP encrytion for your wirless router my router set-up is currently using 'WPA-PSK' is this possible??

I have set the card up, it can scan for networks and information but I cant seem to connect to my network.

Any idears.

[Jonhoo]

Allright, pretty big Linux-newbie speaking :P

First of all, I just figured out I actually like tinkering around in Linux :)

Now, to my problem..

I have followed all of the instructions above, and have got no errors at all.. The network light on my F5D7010 is green (Not the powerlight strangely, only the traffic light which is on continously..) , and I can configure the device in the networking manager, the only problem is that the card doesn't find any networks.. :( I have SSID broadcasting enabled on my router which is placed a bit under 10 feet from laptop with the card...

Even if I try to set the SSID through iwconfig, the SSID simply says 'off/any' when I run iwconfig..

iwlist wlan0 scan

produces:

wlan0 No scan results

Does anyone know what may cause this to happen?

Appreciate the help :)
Jon

[Jefim]

Ok, everyone who didn't get this to work should first of all do a
lsmod | grep bcm
and if you see something like bcm43xx, then remove it by doing
sudo rmmod bcm43xx
And only after that do modprobe ndiswrapper. This was my problem. This bcm43xx is a kernel module for broadcom, which messes things up! It just has to be removed in order for ndiswrapper to work normally. I suppose, that this rmark could go to the front page.

[suspend]

Anyone know what this error means? I am trying to get a Broadcom to work on my Gateway 7405GX with 64bit Edubuntu(Dapper Drake).


Errhttp://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main ndiswrapper-utils 1.8-0ubuntu2
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (82.211.81.182). - connect (113 No route to host) [IP: 82.211.81.182 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils_1.8-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (82.211.81.182). - connect (113 No route to host) [IP: 82.211.81.182 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

[Jefim]

suspend, I guess that this means that you don't have internet access when you try to install ndiswrapper-tools - basically it says you, that it can't contact the ubuntu downloads site (archve.ubuntu.com).

So, first of all check if you cable in plugged in correctly, if yes, start up ubuntu and go to System->Administration->Networking and chck hat you have your device enabled and activated, if not, then click Properties, check "Use this device" and select DHCP from the drop-down list (this is the most common option). Press ok, select your net device and precc "Activate". Now you should have the access to internet and be able to install packages from synaptics.

I hope that this helps.

[x5452]

ive just installed the new version ubuntu, breezy, and Ive tried following the how to steps at the beginning of this thread, but i cant open the /etc/ndiswrapper file thing. I type gedit and it brings up a blank page, i try open location and typed etc/ndiswrapper but it says it cant open it, not a normal file, so how can i edit things? everything seemed to be entering fine as i followed along until the forconggile line... then i got syntax error near unexpected token sudo. Thats when i tried to edit manually as per the temp instructions up front but cant open the file. I have now just typed the commands in to 'wipe clean' what ive done and start over. when i typed in i got:
FATAL: module bcmwl5 not gound.
ERROR: module ndiswrapper does not exist in /proc/modules

what is my next step, starting from thebeginning?
I have bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys on my desktop

[Zoomy]

Hi,

I am a newbie to Linux, but have done a fair amount of experimenting in a short time.... I started with an old laptop and installed Ubuntu, and was amazed that all the devices were correctly detected - except my Linksys wireless card.

Since then, I went out and bought a brand new laptop (Acer 5002WLMi)- it was time, I needed more space, and I looked forward to seeing how Linux would work on it.

I temporarily was unfaithful to Ubuntu and tried tried other flavors, then Fedora Core 5 - I had read that this was the Linux of Linux's and the easiest.
However, Fedora didn't detect my soundcard, my video was locked at 800x600, and of course, the wireless on the new computer was Broadcom, and of course it didn't work either.

So - back to Ubuntu. I FIXMBR'd the partition and started over. Ubuntu again impressed, and detected everything, but the Broadcom is still an issue.
I tried the instructions in this post, but to no avail. I copied the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys from my Windows Xp installation to a CD, then rebooted and dragged them onto the desktop, but the files had a strange syringe symbol on the icon. I can't interpret what that means, but it must be something to do with virus protection

Any ideas?

[henkstubbe]

If got the Gnome logo on bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys, looks something like this:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/presentations/GUAD3C/making-apps-accessible/gnome-logo-large.gif

So, no problem if you have this.

[henkstubbe]

Finally got the broadcom BCM4306 working on my Dell Latitude D600!

After an upgrade to Dapper, the wireless connection did not work anymore. I just followed the instructions listed in this thread, but nothing worked. Until I did

$ sudo dmesg

This gave a lot of output and that last lines told me:

bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed

I found the solution here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Broadcom43xx

What I did
$ lspci -v |grep -i bcm
$ sudo rmmod bcm43xx
$ sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

This worked immediately, to get it working after reboot, visit the link I gave.

[nate_k]

The wireless how-to wiki and the instruction you give here are very helpful. With this information I was able to achieve connectivity with my router and reach the internet. However, once WPA was activated, I could no longer connect with the wireless router.
I installed and configured the WPA supplicant, but had no success with connecting.
Have you or has anyone been able to achieve and maintain a connection to the Internet with Broadcom and WPA?

[jscat]

$ sudo dmesg

This gave a lot of output and that last lines told me:

bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed

I found the solution here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Broadcom43xx

What I did
$ lspci -v |grep -i bcm
$ sudo rmmod bcm43xx
$ sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

This worked immediately, to get it working after reboot, visit the link I gave.


Thanks for that reply got it working right away! Motorola 825G

[coderunner]

Just as an FYI, in case someone else stumbled onto this thread after initially having trouble with ndiswrapper. I actually tried the drivers that came with my laptop (presario v5000), and the included inf file did not work with breezy. I spent a long time trying the howto here with the editing of the included inf file.

I ended up getting mine to work by using the bcmwl5a.inf file included in this setup program:
ftp://ftp.gateway.com/pub/hardware_support/drivers/win_xp/portable/m360/D00268-001-002.exe
since that model gateway uses the card in my laptop (bcm4318). I just did a normal

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf
modprobe ndiswrapper

and it showed up in networking options and connected to my router w/o problems.

[Horizon]

Thanks for a good howto!

I've followed the howto several times without any luck.
When i was in mood of stop trying i turned broadcast ssid on on my AP. Then suddenly i could see the network but couldnt connect. Then i tried booth System-Administration-Networking and the prompt way. -No succes

Then i realised that i had to convert the ascii-key on the AP to Hex. Suddenly i was connected wireless!

Hope my experiences could help somebody!
Just for the record, for ascii / plain text you can use

sudo iwconfig wlan0 key s:<password here>


God forbid me having to dabble with HEX and the likes.
Besides, i prefer my 12345 to be ascii :mrgreen:

[sliverman69]

does anyone know if this process works on Kubuntu?

[coderunner]

iirc, kubuntu is exactly the same as ubuntu except with the KDE window manager. Then, whether or not it works would not have anything to do with whether you are using kubuntu or ubuntu.

[sliverman69]

thanks I really appreciate the response, I thought that it was the same and it would be compatible, but I was not certain.

[phyre-x]

Hey, been reading this thread for a few hours now and tried to get my broadcom hunk of junk working. i must have had some success because i was able to run

phyre@ubuntu:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
phyre@ubuntu:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:B5:B2:D7:AE
ESSID:"NETGEAR"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-58 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Bit Rate:22 Mb/s
Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Extra:wpa_ie=dd160050f20101000050f20201000050f2020 1000050f202
Cell 02 - Address: 00:12:BF:07:43:B9
ESSID:"HVAC's Network"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-83 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0

from here im well, frankly stuck lol. the network i want to connect to is my own and is wpa-psk protected but i have no idea. the other network is my school (live next door). i tried to connect with the system>admin>networking 'thing' and no joy. any chance someone can point me in a direction to connect to my own wpa-psk network ? or atleast get onto the other wlan which is unprotected.

thanks

[TRINIDADUBUNTU]

This is sooooooo good. Finally I am back up with wireless running on my Acer Aspire 3003 with broadcom wireless!!!

To all, don't forget to turn off the eth0 interface. When I tried to connect wirelessly with eth0 still activated, X killed itself, lost the keyboard, and had to reboot. Not so sure why X died, but no matter. When I rebooted, I killed eth0 and I am up and running again. I followed the instructions from the original post and voila!!! Instant wireless, no need to sudo modprobe ndiswrapper on reboot. All I do is activate the wireless interface from network-admin and badda bing badda boom...I'm up and running. Next is to tackle WPA so the networks not open to anyone. Thanks for the original post.

-Trin

[El Cacahuete]

This thread is great. Just one problem internet speed is UBER slow. I have a 256k DSL connection that runs at 150k (its a long story and i am trying to fix it with qwest but they are being stupid :( )

I changed the radio settings too, but I did it a couple steps later, I wouldnt expect that to slow my connection down to non-excistant, would it?

[El Cacahuete]

Hi,

I am a newbie to Linux, but have done a fair amount of experimenting in a short time.... I started with an old laptop and installed Ubuntu, and was amazed that all the devices were correctly detected - except my Linksys wireless card.

Since then, I went out and bought a brand new laptop (Acer 5002WLMi)- it was time, I needed more space, and I looked forward to seeing how Linux would work on it.

I temporarily was unfaithful to Ubuntu and tried tried other flavors, then Fedora Core 5 - I had read that this was the Linux of Linux's and the easiest.
However, Fedora didn't detect my soundcard, my video was locked at 800x600, and of course, the wireless on the new computer was Broadcom, and of course it didn't work either.

So - back to Ubuntu. I FIXMBR'd the partition and started over. Ubuntu again impressed, and detected everything, but the Broadcom is still an issue.
I tried the instructions in this post, but to no avail. I copied the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys from my Windows Xp installation to a CD, then rebooted and dragged them onto the desktop, but the files had a strange syringe symbol on the icon. I can't interpret what that means, but it must be something to do with virus protection

Any ideas?

Does it look like a little golden lock? Right mouse click on the file and click on properties. Give yourself write permisions to the three options it shows.

[neopirus]

This thread is great. Just one problem internet speed is UBER slow. I have a 256k DSL connection that runs at 150k (its a long story and i am trying to fix it with qwest but they are being stupid :( )

I changed the radio settings too, but I did it a couple steps later, I wouldnt expect that to slow my connection down to non-excistant, would it?

I found the thread very helpful too, but just like El Cacahuete my connection is very slow. In windows XP the connection is much faster. Actually I had Mepis Linux 3.4 installed on my laptop and not only did Mepis automatically detect and configure my dell 1350 card, it works with with 128bit encryption and it's just as fast as my windows. I'm not sure what the reason for having this happen with ubuntu is.
i finally got my card to work with WEP with the WAP at work where I can't dissable the encryption. I pick up an unencrypted signal which is pretty far from where I am and the internet speed seems to be the same as my work.
Actually I looked in the .conf files in ndiswrapper. I can't even find radio settings in there...
Any ideas?

Thanks

[Nutronion]

OK, I'm new to linux, so this is probaly just a n00bish problem but...

When looking for the drives for the wireless card I have a BVMWL5.SYS file but not a BVMWL5.inf file.. That original file was located in the SYSTEM32/Drivers folder (the directory listed in the guide was empty)

Where can I find this file?

[neopirus]

I have a dell inspiron which uses this driver. i found the windows driver at the dell website and unzipped it. it includes both the .inf and the .sys file.

[luca.costantino]

Broadcom wireless cards are tricky to set up in ubuntu, and the forums are full of frustrated users seeking advice. Broadcom provide no Linux support (feel free to complain to your hardware vendor or choose a different card if you haven't yet shelled out your cash), but they can be made to work - and you're in the right place if you want to know how.

First, you need to find out if this How To is for you. Broadcom wireless cards come under many brand names and, in particular, are used in many Dell and Acer laptops. Look for the drivers supplied with your card (Dell usually store a copy in C:/DRIVERS/NETWORK/ADDON); if you have a file called bcmwl5.inf or bcmwl5a.inf then keep on reading. You won't succeed without following these instructions!

0. Before you start, clear out any mess from existing failed attempts to use ndiswrapper. Note that you shouldn't use a root terminal to execute the code in this how-to; use a normal terminal session instead.sudo modprobe -r bcmwl5
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-utils
sudo rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/
sudo rm -r /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapperSome of these steps may report errors; just ignore them.

1. Copy the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys files to your desktop

2. Follow the advice given here under How to add extra repositories (http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories)

3. Open a terminal session and enter this code. Note that you need an active network connection for this to work; I've assumed that if you have access to a wireless LAN, you also have access to a wired network as a fallback.sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m
for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
done4. Reboot your PC. On restarting, the light on your wireless card should come on. If not, try enteringsudo modprobe ndiswrapper5. Your card is now working. Open the networking configuration tool System --> Administration --> Networking

6. Select your wireless network card (probably wlan0) and hit the properties button.

7. Tick the 'This device is configured' box, and enter your network name and connection settings. Ask your office network administrator for support if you don't know what this question means, or copy your settings from Windows.

8. BE CAREFUL entering your WEP key, if you're using one. You're expected to enter this in hexadecimal form; if you don't speak hex, prefix your key with s:

9. Click OK. The screen should close fairly quickly; if it hangs, you probably aren't connected properly.

10. Back in the Network Settings screen, select your wireless device as the default gateway device.

11. Click OK. Again, the screen should close fairly quickly.

12. Enjoy wireless nirvana. If everything works, you can delete the file from your desktop.

13. You might notice that the signal strength applet doesn't work properly. This is a known bug with these cards.

If you have trouble, try booting into Windows - if you dual boot - and checking that the card is enabled. Some laptops allow the wireless card to be switched off, usually with a special key combination, and I've not found a reliable way to make this work in Linux.

(Note: This how-to has been updated to reflect all comments from the thread up to 19 April)



hi
first of all sorry for my bad english

i followed step-by-step your tutorial, but my bcm4301 wifi card still does'nt work!

now this is my situation

iwconfig returns

root@hfish-laptop:/home/hfish# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"ZyXEL" Nickname:"Broadcom 4301"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

root@hfish-laptop:/home/hfish#

so, I think that the problems is that aliases are made for wlan0 instead of eth1

now I have a fresh install of kubuntu 6.06 Beta 2


2 days ago i had 5.10, and wifi worked correctly, because the wifi adapter was recognized by wlan0 instead of eth1


what can i do??

thanks a lot
luca
luca.costantino@gmail.com

[luca.costantino]

sorry...
i forgot one thing

modprobe -r bcmwl5 returns an error, module not found
modprobe bcmwl5 returns the same error

[luca.costantino]

here i am again...

i've noticed one thing

the module i have is not bcmwl5, but bcm43xx, and i get an error loading it



[4295206.083000] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
[4296540.396000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:02.0 disabled
[4296540.400000] ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL'
[4296554.903000] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
[4296554.948000] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:112): loadndiswrapper failed (65280); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
[4296565.307000] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[4296565.311000] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
[4296565.311000] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[4296565.369000] bcm43xx: driver
[4296565.370000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
[4296565.654000] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode2.fw" not available or load failed.
[4296565.665000] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode2.fw" not available or load failed.
root@hfish-laptop:/home/hfish/.aMule#

some hints
thanks

[tomy4ever]

luca, i'm trying to get my wireless working as well ;) I'm following step by step the thing that "jonny" posted but It still doesn't work. I've gotten the bcmwl5 module by typing that on google, it's on the first sites.
Well I've done everything Jonny's said until point 4. . However it's not working, the interface won't appear in System -> Administration -> Networking.
I've got an icon on top right of my screen right next to the eth0 connection which is RJ45 and perfectly works (as i'm replying on this board ;d)
Are there any tests I could make to know what is wrong according to the fact it couldn't really be an hardware issue since it's working on windows xp.


edit:
I actually noticed that the following hasn't got any effect:

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m
for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
done

plus if I dont chmod 777 all the files (/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf) it says permission denied (lol) although the command is run as sudo.

[Nutronion]

I have a dell inspiron which uses this driver. i found the windows driver at the dell website and unzipped it. it includes both the .inf and the .sys file.

Cheers for that, found file, downloaded, followed instrucitions and BANG! Writing this from ubuntu WITHOUT wires =D

*is happy*

[tomy4ever]

I've just read something interesting :)

from http://linux-laptop.net/hosted/dell-inspiron-9400.html

*

WLAN

1.

Download original driver from INTEL. Read and follow the installation instructions as described here in short:
2.

Download ieee80211 from www.sourceforge.net
3.

Build your own kernel WITHOUT ieee80211 support. Boot it.
4.

In the ieee80211-subdirectory do make && make install. („y“ to „delete old modules“)
5.

Now copy the INTEL Firmware to /lib/firmware (the INSTALL-Document by INTEL wants to use hotplug. Don't use the document here.)
6.

type „make“ in the driver and daemon subdirectories. Copy the daemon to /sbin.
7.

Go into the driver subdir and type „./load“ . If everything works, you copy the .ko-Module to /lib/modules/KERNEL-VERSION and do a „depmod -a“.
8.

Wonderful. We're done.

just when i read "Build your own kernel WITHOUT ieee80211 support. Boot it." I was like :wtf: how do u build your own kernel :o never done such a thing, if someone could help..

[dunnerz]

Hi,

The ndis solution did not work for me with dapper - i used the solution found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

(the section about dapper)

I have to modprobe the driver at start up (apparntly i can add it to a list somewhere) + the connection is not as quick as the ndis - but it works, so thats good enough for me!!

hope this helps someone

[DavidFourer]

I got stelmate's error message and I'm trying to follow his advise:

If you have
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted That's what I got

...just reinstall the older version from the synaptic manager under packages>force version> hoary version

The pkg mgr menu selection package>force version>hoary version is faded and not accessible. (I'm not at all familiar with compiling modules) Am I doing something simple wrong?

Perhaps I'm in the wrong forum--These instructions are only for Hoary? I am using Breezy 5.10--I'm looking for another thread.

[ozzymud]

*EDIT: replied to wrong message in wrong forum even.. sorry :(*

Card was picked up on install, but not working because of missing firmware, after Ubuntu finished installing, extracting firmware and rebooting... setup with no security (i used MAC filters on my router) and static IP (no dhcp) all worked,
here were my steps.

Chip is 4318 in HP/Compaq Presario M2000
kernel is: 2.6.15-22-386
install is Ubuntu Dapper Daily 05112006 (yesterdays as of this posting)

# bcm43xx-fwcutter -i bcmwl5.sys

filename : bcmwl5.sys
version : 3.100.46.0
MD5 : 38ca1443660d0f5f06887c6a2e692aeb

(i got mine from a link in a Fedora post about this card:
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3020_5020/driver/80211g.zip)
i also attached the sys/inf files only in an attachment to this post.. i think :P

# sudo bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/2.6.15-22-386/ bcmwl5.sys

clicked activate...

try google... bingo... connected to the net! *biggrin*

NetworkManager Applet 0.6.2 does not see it at all
(while downloadng this daily iso i tried Fedora FC5, NetworkManager
seen the connection although the signal strength didnt work.)

Blue wireless light works when wireless is up.

Wireless blue-light button DESTROYS connection until POWER DOWN reboot!!

after a hard reboot...

iwconfig eth1 gives:

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:11:XX:11:X1:11
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=2/3 Noise level=185/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

iwlist eth1 scan gave:

eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:XX:XX:X1:11
ESSID:"linksys"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
Quality=100/100 Signal level=-169 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 81ms ago

ifconfig eth1 down
will turn light and net off (i assume card is powered down)
ifconfig eth1 up
brings light back on and net is still down....

iwlist eth1 scan..
eth1 No scan results

iwconfig eth1 results are the same... no "Access Point: Invalid" looks
like everything is "ok" but it aint.


time for another power-down reboot.... but wait... lets try:

sudo ifconfig eth1 down
sudo modprobe -r bcm43xx
sudo modprobe bcm43xx
(Note: Pressing the "wireless button" causes even this to fail to work)

... try google... WHEEE! it's back up :)

iwlist scan now shows my linksys router again...

NetworkManager still shows nothing (No Connections)

so...
System->Preferences->Sessions->Startup Programs->
nm-applet --sm-disable <--- disable

Network Monitor 2.12.0 properly shows eth1 up and 100% signal strength.
(gnome-netstatus) Network Monitor via "Add to Panel"

Just my $.02 for anyone still hassling with this card.

[i++]

brilliant! amazingly helpful, thanks!

[ztirffritz]

OK, the good news is that the blue light on my Presario os finally blue. The bad news is that it doesn't seem to do much of anything else besides being blue.
1) How do I run the modprobe command during startup?
2) why doesn't eth1 show up in Network Manager?

After my original post in this thread about 5 months ago, I glad that the nerds kept at it and finally got this working...somewhat. Shame on Broadcom for not helping though!

[blackest_knight]

thank you thank you-- perfect instructions for my nx6110 hp laptop

I copied the inf and sys file from the hp drivers dvd that came with this laptop and
after the first line of the removal stuff said there wasnt anything to remove continued from the installation block of code

I very nearly didnt enter the following as one command line

"for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
done"

(without the quotes of course)
thinking i was just meant to type
"sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile"
which is wrong.

I thought I'd mention this in case some else doesnt think type everything in the code box means everything :)

i rebooted after the code block and rebooted after the modprobe and configuring the wireless lan bit. (nothing seemed to want to connect after i switched to wifi)
on rebooting there was a longish pause before the networking setup (upto a minute max) before ubuntu carried on booting and wireless came on and is working flawlessly.
I don't use wep encryption (just mac address filtering) so i just selected the ssid for my network and set wlan0 as the default gateway.

Thanks again for perfect instructions on setting up wifi with broadcom and the ndiswrapper.

[slyboots]

Hello I use HP nx6110 (model PM730 Code PG841ES.) with Ubuntu Brezzy 5.10 (Linux zer0 2.6.12-10-686 #1 Fri Apr 28 13:21:56 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux).

I have this card 0000:02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

It is corectly installed in windows but i cant find the bcmwl5.inf file. The bcmwl5.sys i found in c://windows/system32/

I will make on my wlan card becouse i will use it. I download Automatix with Windows wireless driver program and this program will help with them. But it will search for .inf file and i have bcmwl5.inf not. I dont now why but i search on all prtitions and nothing...

I look in this forum and i see that you have make this guide... But what should i make?

Thanks for help.

[slakkie]

[QUOTE=jonny]
for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
done

This can be changed to:

for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf
do
sudo sed -i -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' $conffile
# or via perl
# sudo perl -p -i -e 's/(RadioState\|)1/${1}0/' $conffile
done

#
# OR..
#
sudo sed -i -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf
# or perl again
# sudo perl -p -i -e 's/(RadioState\|)1/${1}0/' /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf




Because you sudo and then redirect you will not be able to write the new conffile. Your user is not allowed to recreate the files.

And thanks for the HOWTO, I will try to get my wireless working in combination with the LiveCD (do not want to switch unless I get my primary needs working).

[solarwind]

My router is currently using WPA encryption for my wireless network. How do I get this to work with the dell 1370 cards? Do I have to install a special package?

Thanks for any replies, all help is much appreciated.

[slakkie]

solarwind: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WPAHowto

[solarwind]

Thanks a lot! Ubuntu 6.06 will surely own!

[blackest_knight]

or not just tried these instructions which worked under 5.10 and my wireless isnt working under 6.06 :(
any idea's ?

[aldegaz]

why when I input

ndiswrapper -|

I get thjis for an answer:

>

[atrus123]

why when I input

ndiswrapper -|

I get thjis for an answer:

>

It should be ndiswrapper -l (as in lamb or lame or lucky), not ndiswrapper -| (as in the pipe symbol).

J.

[gregoo]

Brilliant, thanx a million!!!

[aldegaz]

so, in this last part of the code, it would be the same?

sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile

???

[jlpicardus]

Did anyone get the Broadcom 4318 rev 02 working?
I read the forum and the internet back and forth, pulled all my hairs out, but my wireless is stil not working under Ubuntu. I have an ASUS A6U (6000 series), I have no errors during the install process as described in the first post here, but it just don't work.

My card is listed as eth0 although I get a wlan01 during installation of the drivers using ndiswrapper.

I am out of options here ...... nothing seems to work.

Regards from Germany,

Herman

[aldegaz]

Herman

I have got the same problem as you, you can read my thread here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1129622#post1129622

[asad112]

Hey, I followed the steps, and my light came on, but it is blinking. Is this wrong? I am still not able to get internet either...

[jlpicardus]

Today I thought about my old laptop wich had a Benq AWL-100 pcmcia-card. I installed this card on my new laptop and that worked without a glitch.

However, I will keep on trying to get my onboard wireless to work.

Herman

[aldegaz]

I am still trying to get the broadcom chip to work

This is PROOF that this tutorial IS NOT for everyone.

[hangfire]

I am still trying to get the broadcom chip to work

This is PROOF that this tutorial IS NOT for everyone.

I hate to be critical, I'm sure the original poster had good intentions, but someone really needs to correct the original HOW-TO post which has caused so many people so many problems.

Details here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=393062&postcount=210

HF

[trubblemaker]

here's some updated howto's that may help. I prefer the native driver ones, (but you need to be using Dapper for them)

[jak]

Most broadcom chipsets have been supported out of the box in Dapper.
Upgrade!

[trubblemaker]

Most broadcom chipsets have been supported out of the box in Dapper.
Upgrade!
sort of, if you had ndiswrapper before you upgraded unfortunately this 'causes issues, alot of people don't know that their is native support and go crazy trying to remove this "obviously broken driver"..... so think bigger, yes it's supported out of the box but their are complications.

[thenowherekid]

Im new to this ubuntu/kubuntu thing too. Ive been using slackware for the past 2 years, and i read that this was easily done on this Dell XPS m1710 laptop. well yeah everything was workin fine when i installed Kubuntu dapper. the wireless even worked. crazything. cuz since after that first boot, it hasnt worked. and now i am trying to ndiswrapper to work with this. i have the driver present. But i cannot get the hardware present. I've read and read and read. but i dont see anyone that didnt get the hardware present, plus its 3:30 in the morn. if someone could maybe help me make ndiswrapper see the wireless device, i can get the wireless going again. thanks a million.

[trubblemaker]

Read the howto you need to make sure that you don't have both ndiswrapper and bcm43xx present at the same time that causes all sorts of issues.

make sure to add:

blacklist bcm43xx to /etc/modules.d/blacklist (I"m pretty sure on a windows box so I can't check, but it's in the howto in my signature.)

I'm not on kubuntu, there is another forum for them and that may provide more help. I think that this should be the key for you though post back and I'll try and help you some more.

All hail debian derivatives.

[phyre-x]

everything now works fine for my broadcom card with network manager and wpa support, had to black list the native broadcom driver and took a while playing around but all seems well now. thanks

[Shane_S]

I had beat my head against a wall for a week trying to get my Broadcom card in my Dell Inspiron 5160 working with Dapper. The tutorial in the first post in this thread worked PERFECTLY for Breezy. But wouldnt work at all with Dapper. I finally stumbled across a working fix for it after trying all of the other tutorials on the forums and beating google to death with the searches. lol.

http://www.beginningubuntu.com/dapper_tips.html#Using_Ndiswrapper_to_get_wifi_wor king

It worked like a charm for me. Hopefully the origonater of this thread will add it to his initial post.

Enjoy

shane

[rwestgeest]

[QUOTE=jonny;125537][i]6 July 2006 Update
Sorry guys,

But THIS


for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
done


Will erase all config files in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/ !!!!!!!!!

Have you really tested this.

The output of sed should be redirected to a tempfile instead and then copied back to the original.

Something like:


cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile.tmp
mv $conffile.tmp $conffile


If you have tested this and your conffiles have not been erased, then take a closer look. Have they really changed? I would expect not for i would expect that you need a sudo for the sed command, not for the cat command.

Cheers
Rob

[trubblemaker]

straight up forget that radio state ********, that needs to be taken out of the howto.

[rodonea]

OK!!I can't believe!
After a long day trying ](*,) now I'm posting with my wireless.
Features:
HP Pavilion zv5000
Broadcom Corporation BCM4303 802.11b Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

Thank you for supporting

[francisco tovar]

hello
I have a problem,
when I put:
for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/'
$conffile
done


I get:
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301:103C:12F3.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318:103C:1355.5.conf:.. Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318:103C:1356.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318:103C:1357.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318.5.conf: Permission denied
......
(and like fifteen lines similar)....

do you know what is the mistake?
thank you
FT

[jedleman]

hi. Thank you for posting. The steps are very clear. However, I receive the following during step 4: Can you assist?

jedleman@jedleman-laptop:~$ for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
> sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
> done
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301:1028:0002.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301:1028:0407.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4307.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:1028:0001.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:1028:0002.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324:1028:0001.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324:1028:0002.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324.5.conf: Permission denied
jedleman@jedleman-laptop:~$

Thank you in advance...

[trubblemaker]

Yeah don't do the radio state thing it really out of date check the howto's in my signature to get you going or check the wiki for the howto on dniswrapper

[turntabletux]

Hey guys,

Little frustrated. I followed everything that I have read on this topic. Great tutorial by the way, helped me even though I am still not connected.

Anyways, I have ndiswrapper-utils and ndisgtk installed. I install the "bcmwl5.inf" file no problem. I ran "ndiswrapper -l" and my driver is there and present. However, when I open up Network Settings, that is where my probelm is. I click on eth1 and enter in my "ESSID," I have no "WEP Key," and I am using "DHCP."

I click "activate" and it hangs, so obviously it didn't activate. Then it says "eh1 activated." I click "ok" to exit and once again it hangs, so I know that it's not going to work. When I open Network Settings again, "eth1 is not active."

I open "eth1 connection properties," and I have sent 9 packets and recieved 9 packets, but no signal whatsoever, the bar is still empty.

I do "iwconfig," and I get everything correct and fine, except no "Access Point." My wired and wireless connections on my other pc's at home work flawlessly.

When I ping a site, it won't go through. I have uninstalled ndiswrapper and my drivers. Rebooted, installed everything and still no luck. I have up to date drivers and ndiswrapper. Any command on this site that I have ran comes out with no errors.

I am so frustrated because I know that I am so close. I have no clue what I am missing, and usually I am very good with ndiswrapper as I have used it many times with Suse, so this is making me feel stupid. ](*,)

Any help guys would be amazing. I start school again (ITT Tech) and I would like to have my wireless up and running because I use it during class, lab, and to keep myself from falling asleep sometimes.

Thanks guys for reading my novel. I woke up at 4 with hope and it is 8, so I have decided to call it quits until I wake up later. Thanks again guys and I hope to hear from you soon. I know you guy usually respond fast, this an amazing forum, I am proud to be a part of it.

Thanks!!

Ant

[trubblemaker]

ok so if you are using dapper and not hoary you might run into an issue with a the native driver that comes pre-installed. to solve this issue you need to blacklist the bcm43xx driver
echo "blacklist bcm43xx" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
alternativly you could blacklist ndiswrapper and try use the native driver (but you may need to trouble shoot it as there is a reason you tried to use ndiswrapper)
echo "blacklist ndiswrapper" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

the reason I'm guessing your on dapper is hoary is old and you talked about the computer hanging when you tried to activate the ndiswrapper. The above steps should help you out.

if you really wanted to know if the driver was installed before you ran a code to remove it you could check many things one is too:
lspci | grep controller and if a broadcom driver is listed there and you are on dapper then you will have a native driver installed.

[Karl S.]

DHCPACK problem. Done various searches, and seen what looks to be similar problems, but I've not yet seen an answer that makes any sense to me (probably because I'm not a computer person)....

Here's my output:

karl@karl:~/Desktop$ sudo ./ndiswrapper_setup
0000:05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
ndiswrapper_setup, Copyright (C) 2006 Adam Blackburn
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.
Installing ndiswrapper...
(Reading database ... 77822 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ndiswrapper-utils 1.8-0ubuntu2 (using ndiswrapper.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ndiswrapper-utils ...
Setting up ndiswrapper-utils (1.8-0ubuntu2) ...

Extracting the drivers...
Deleting temporary files...
Changing driver permissions...
Changing working directory...
Removing previous attempts to use ndiswrapper, if any...please ignore errors in this section...
Driver bcmwl5a is not installed.Use -l to list installed drivers
ndiswrapper died with exit status 23
Removing default driver...
ERROR: Module bcm43xx does not exist in /proc/modules
rmmod died with exit status 1
Installing driver through ndiswrapper...
Installing bcmwl5
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1
modprobe config already contains alias directive

Modprobing ndiswrapper...
Moving back to original working directory...
Deleting more temporary files...
Blacklisting bcm43xx...
Adding ndiswrapper to /etc/modules, so it should load on boot...
Removing excess entries from your network interfaces file...
Searching for a wifi point...
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:14:BF:71:EC:EE
ESSID:"karl steel"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-33 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Extra:rsn_ie=30180100000fac020200000fac04000fac020 100000fac020000
Extra:wpa_ie=dd1c0050f20101000050f20202000050f2040 050f20201000050f2020000

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

Listening on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:1a:30:e3
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:1a:30:e3
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:c0:9f:d1:74:1b
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:c0:9f:d1:74:1b
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.101 -- renewal in 35449 seconds

[trubblemaker]

I don't understand what your asking for help with... you have an Ip address, "192.168.1.101" and you can see your wirless network. I do see the ndiswrapper did have an error while installing, but what is your actuall problem?

to be honest you need to format your output better, break it up into parts. I'm willing to help you, but you need to put a little more effort into your post help the people that are trying to help you so to speak.

[Trabi]

who can help me...

I've changed from mandriva 2006 to kubuntu (latest version) and i'm trying to get my wli-cb-G54a broadcom to work.
With mandriva it was no problem, i just had to load the bcmwl5a.inf with ndiswrapper and it worked, but with kubunu, damnd !!!

i followed the steps of the howto and this is the result:

stefan@Ledda:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present

this looks good, driver present and hardware present, but the indication lights on my card wont light up.

stefan@Ledda:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


iwconfig, it seems likes it works, bit rate = 1mb/s , verry strange, the lights wont light up, i have no wireless network (ps, in mandriva my wireless network interface was called wlan0)

dmesg gives me this :
[17179925.064000] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
[17179925.088000] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.

seems to be that there must be something wrong, but i cant find the solution... Can someone help me??

thanks !!!

[Karl S.]

My "actual problem" is that DHCPACK problem. I don't know what it's doing, but it seems that it's asking me to wait nearly 10 hours for it to 'renew.' Searching for DHCPACK on the forums indicates that other people seem to be having this problem.

If no one can help me, I'll just wait for Edgy Eft & maybe Ubuntu will have working wireless for non-computer people like me cursed w/ a Broadcom 4318.

....20 minutes later I have working wireless.

*shrugs shoulders*

I have no idea how I got it working. If it was this thread (which was one of about 10 'how to' thread I read), thanks.

[sirkamran32]

Hey, i have ubuntu 6.06. i also got ndiswrapper 1.23 on my machine. However, my machine is not connected to the internet, and my "sudo make" commands do not work either (i cant find my disk).
can anyone help me get my wireless card (wmp54gs linksys) working?
i can get any necessary files from a windows machine and transfer them to my linux machine. this is frustrating, i dont have a wired connection near my linux computer. I want to be able to get my wireless card working so i can play with linux. btw, i am a huge newbie. thanks for any help. a how-to install ndiswrapper w/o internet connection would be nice! i need that. just tell me what files to get from my windows machine, and ill transfer and install then on my linux one. i need "sudo make" to work and also ndiswrapper. thanks for any help!!!

[trubblemaker]

Tabi, what version of ubuntu are you running if your on dapper you need to blacklist the native driver also... the microcode issue I've seen before but was recently deleted off the wiki I wanted... but I've seen the error and i think it's cause the wrong driver was loaded, but I can't remeber however a quick search of the forms on micro code not loading should let you know

[trubblemaker]

sirkamran32.

I do have a link in my signature(the one on to the automated installation of ndiswrapper) that has zipped files at the end of the howto that should help you as an all in one solution. I'm not sure but I think that your driver might have native support but I"m not really sure which card you have. can you run

lspci | grep Broadcom and let me know what you get.
also you output for
iwconfig list
ifconfig

would also help out in helping you solve your issue, I will check my email again tomorrow am(PST) and will try and help you out.

[sirkamran32]

trubblemaker.
thanks for the response! i will try what you said out as soon as i can, i am busy with other stuff, so dont think i'm ignoring you. Just to let you know, i have a desktop with a Linksys wmp54gs with speed booster PCI card. I'll post what happens soon, thanks again. btw, if i dont have to use ndiswrapper thats fine, i just need a solution, to make my wireless card work. thanks.

[trubblemaker]

ps if you just upgraded your machine and then wireless stopped working it's definitly the native driver/ ndiswrapper conflict.
in that case you need to blacklist one of the native driver or ndiswrapper. if you do a search on blacklist on the howto in my signature you will get instructions on how to fix this.

[method_lam]

sorry the ultimate noob here, but i hope someone can help me.

problem with the WEP key...when it is enabled, i cant get on :(

in the initial post, it says to prefix the wep key with s:

say the wep key was 0123456789. what do i type in? surely not s:0123456789 because that doesnt work for me.

[altern]

hi

I am trying to get Belkin F5D701 to work on a IB X24. I am running Dapper. I followed few howtos with litle luck. I never get hardware present on ndiswrapper. This is the info i get from few commands on my system:

$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present


$ sudo ifup wlan
Error for wireless request "Set AP Address" (8B14) :
SET failed on device wlan ; No such device.
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan.


$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

irda0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.


$ lspci | grep Broadcom
0000:03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)


I am wondering if i might be using a driver that doesnt work with my card. Or I have done something wrong in the process maybe.

My /etc/networks/interfaces looks like this

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-ap any

I added ndiswrapper to /etc/modules and blacklist bcm43xx in /etc/modprobe.d as the howtos suggested

any ideas?? ... thanks!

[trubblemaker]

method_1am

This is how I get my card to work in my /etc/network/interfaces file I have

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto ra0

iface ra0 inet dhcp
pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid linksys
pre-up /home/archiver/network
pre-up ifconfig ra0 up


then in the highlighted file /home/archiver/network

#/bin/bash
iwpriv ra0 set NetworkType=Infra
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=SHARED
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=WEP
iwpriv ra0 set DefaultKeyID=1
iwpriv ra0 set Key1=610EDCE1B9

of course this isn't broadcom card but it might work for you so give it a shot. also you can see now, I hope, how you can use pre-up to use commands to bring up your connection. If you can get your key entered succesfully and bring up your driver, then add those commands like I have to a script with a pre up.

ps any script that you run should have the permissions changed on it so that it can run. (chmod u+x file-name)

[trubblemaker]

ok first try ndiswrapper -m
then see if you have a wlan0
if you still don't

Start again with the howto, and remove your installation of ndiswrapper. I bet that if you look in you
dmesg
that it says somewhere in there that the micro code didn't load. I think that you probably used the incorrect driver. if your on a dual boot windows can tell you what file to copy, ( I'm on the same driver) you can also get the driver off the installation CD don't use the bcmwla driver it's the old windows98 wirless driver, use the bcmwl driver it's for XP not a big difference but I found I could do more with the XP driver.

[method_lam]

i have a d-link di-524 and still cant connect with WEP enabled.

i can connect to other routers running the same settings, but not mine at home.

authentication type is OPEN

how can i manually set the channel?

(trubblemaker: i havent tried what u suggested yet, but i will soon, thanks)

[method_lam]

didnt work trubblemaker, dammit.

[trubblemaker]

you don't want to set the channel generally the computer will pick the correct one.
You generally want to set the essid to the one you use at home.

iwlist scan

then if you see the correct network:
change your essid with

iwconfig <interface> essid <linksys_or_your_router_essid>

then you need to do whatever you normally do to connect to a wep
setting the password and auth mode.
then type:

sudo dhclient <interface>

it's important not to use 'sudo ifup <interface>' as that reads you /etc/network/interfaces file and will totally negate all the settings that you just changed. Once you get connect adding all these commands to /etc/network/interfaces ifup will work to get you connected, but not until then.

in all this I assume that you have already connected to your network without encryption, if you have not, stop do that first then come and read these instructions over again.

[ctopkelly]

I am trying to get my hp zd 8215us with a Broadcom wnic. i follow all of the howto. but when i get to the point
ckelly@ckelly-laptop:~$ for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
> sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
> done

what i get is here

bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4311:103C:1363.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4311:103C:1364.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4311:103C:1365.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4311.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4312:103C:135F.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4312:103C:1360.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4312:103C:1361.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4312:103C:1362.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4312.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318:103C:1355.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318:103C:1356.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318:103C:1357.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4319:103C:1358.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4319:103C:1359.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4319:103C:135A.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4319.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:0E11:00E7.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:103C:12F4.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:103C:12F8.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:103C:12FA.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:103C:12FB.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324:103C:12F9.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324:103C:12FC.5.conf: Permission denied
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4324.5.conf: Permission denied
i know i am really close to getting this to work,

i am new to linux and i want to make the change but i need this to work. so please someone help.

Thank Chris](*,)

[trubblemaker]

i don't know which howto you followed, but I suggest the one in red in my signature, or building it from source. The instruction your talking about isn't as far as I know a vital step in getting you nic up and running, to help you further can you do a couple things for me.
give me the output of the following commands:
[code]
lspci | grep road
ndiswrapper -l
iwlist scan
sudo dhclient wlan0
ping www.google.ca
cat /etc/network/interfaces
[code]

[ctopkelly]

ok thank you for your help. here is what you requested
lspci
[code]
0000:0b:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
[code]
ndiswrapper -l
[code]
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!
[code]
iwilist scan
[code]
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 No scan results
sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
[code]
sudo dhclient wlan0
[code]
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
[code]
ping www.google.ca
no responce

cat /etc/network/interfaces
[code]
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth1 inet dhcp
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
auto eth1
auto eth0
[code]

I am going to try to set using your howto. but if you can help me out that woule be great. i want to make the switch to linux i am getting sick of Microsoft BS. thanks
chris:D

[trubblemaker]

K so two things pop out I think you need add 'blacklist bcm43xx' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist as seeing eth1 with no scan results hints to you having the native bcm43xx driver enabled. it would also interfer with you ndiswrapper code loading at boot. so try blacklisting it and then reboot, see if internet comes up.

if it doesn't then you do need to start from scratch with the proper bcm driver, if you dual boot you can look at you network and get it to show you the driver it's using, (it will even show you the location on your windows partition.) Don't ask me how to do it, I just dug around in the network settings and eventually I made it tell me. Failing that there are lists of where to get drivers including the red howto in my signature that is an automated installation of ndiswrapper. Try it out it might fix you up.

[ctopkelly]

I have tried the Red HowTo with no success. I will trt the black list part and reboot.

In running through the HowTo i get all the way to the end and it asks me to run ndiswrapper -l
and here are my results

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!

not sure if that helps out

if i duel boot in to windows and find the drivers that it is using i should move it over to the linux computer and run the first post in this string to get it to work? I have see so many posts i am not sure what one is the best for my computer.

Thanks for your help
Chris
:D

[trubblemaker]

you want to get the driver, and then just use:
ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
then make sure that the driver is removed
ndiswrapper -l
install the driver
ndiswrapper -i /path/to/bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m
make sure ndis is loaded
sudo modpobe ndiswrapper
then try out
iwlist scan
if you get an essid listed then your on the road to the internet use:
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid <your-essid>
sudo dhclient wlan0

Then we can move on to fixing your ugly /etc/network/interfaces file

[ctopkelly]

went and got the drivers from my windows XP drive. here is what i get after following your directions.

root@ckelly-laptop:/home/ckelly# ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
root@ckelly-laptop:/home/ckelly#

root@ckelly-laptop:/home/ckelly# ndiswrapper -l
No drivers installed

root@ckelly-laptop:/home/ckelly/Desktop# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
Installing bcmwl5
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
root@ckelly-laptop:/home/ckelly/Desktop# sudo ndiswrapper -m
modprobe config already contains alias directive

root@ckelly-laptop:/home/ckelly/Desktop# sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
root@ckelly-laptop:/home/ckelly/Desktop# iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 No scan results

The only thing is see diffrent is the when i goto the network app it says the wireless card is active. It always said it was not active. "Things that make you go hummmmm". I do think we are on to some thing and i am learning about linux by doing this.

oh yea... also when i look at the network app i see the AP name is the essid dropdown. i tried to connect to it but that was a negitive.

I will keep messing around with it till i hear back from you.

Thanks
Chris ( an almost Linux user).
:smile:

[trubblemaker]

ok now I want you to reboot the computer give me the output from these commands:

dmesg
ifconfig
iwlist scan
iwconfig
ndiswrapper -l
cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

and just because

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up; sudo dhclient wlan0

[ctopkelly]

This is great. Thanks for the help one thing how do you get the little code boxes in your posts.

here we go

ckelly@ckelly-laptop:~$ dmesg
[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.15-27-386 (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:51:59 UTC 2006
[17179569.184000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000d8000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fef0000 (usable)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fef0000 - 000000001fef9000 (ACPI data)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fef9000 - 000000001ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000001ff00000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[17179569.184000] 510MB LOWMEM available.
[17179569.184000] found SMP MP-table at 000f7a70
[17179569.184000] On node 0 totalpages: 130800
[17179569.184000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] Normal zone: 126704 pages, LIFO batch:31
[17179569.184000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] DMI present.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 HP ) @ 0x000f79c0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 HP 3082 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1fef1a59
[17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v001 HP 3082 0x06040000 PTL 0x00000003) @ 0x1fef8ec0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 HP 3082 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1fef8f34
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 HP 3082 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1fef8f70
[17179569.184000] ACPI: BOOT (v001 HP 3082 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1fef8fd8
[17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 HP 3082 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
[17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[17179569.184000] Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
[17179569.184000] Processor #1 15:4 APIC version 20
[17179569.184000] WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached. Processor ignored.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[17179569.184000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[17179569.184000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[17179569.184000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000)
[17179569.184000] Built 1 zonelists
[17179569.184000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
[17179569.184000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[17179569.184000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[17179569.184000] Initializing CPU#0
[17179569.184000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
[17179569.184000] Detected 2793.449 MHz processor.
[17179569.184000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
[17179569.184000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[17179572.416000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179572.416000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)[17179572.424000] Memory: 508212k/523200k available (1976k kernel code, 14412k reserved, 606k data, 288k init, 0k highmem)
[17179572.424000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[17179572.504000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5592.98 BogoMIPS (lpj=11185978)
[17179572.504000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[17179572.504000] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[17179572.504000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[17179572.504000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000
[17179572.504000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000
[17179572.504000] monitor/mwait feature present.
[17179572.504000] using mwait in idle threads.
[17179572.504000] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
[17179572.504000] CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
[17179572.504000] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00100000 00000000 00000080 0000441d 00000000 00000000
[17179572.504000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
[17179572.504000] CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 01
[17179572.504000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[17179572.504000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[17179572.504000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[17179572.520000] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[17179573.060000] Freeing initrd memory: 6616k freed
[17179573.100000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
[17179573.124000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[17179573.124000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[17179573.268000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[17179573.268000] EISA bus registered
[17179573.268000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[17179573.284000] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd95e, last bus=11
[17179573.284000] PCI: Using MMCONFIG
[17179573.284000] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20051216
[17179573.312000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[17179573.312000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[17179573.312000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[17179573.312000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[17179573.312000] PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
[17179573.312000] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[17179573.316000] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
[17179573.316000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[17179573.320000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEG_._PRT]
[17179573.324000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.EXP0._PRT]
[17179573.324000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]
[17179573.324000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 *10 11 14 15)
[17179573.324000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *5
[17179573.324000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 10 *11 14 15)
[17179573.324000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *7
[17179573.324000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *7
[17179573.324000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
[17179573.324000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 10 *11 14 15)
[17179573.324000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *7
[17179573.324000] ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 29) interrupt mode.
[17179573.328000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[17179573.328000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[17179573.332000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 9 devices
[17179573.332000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[17179573.332000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[17179573.332000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[17179573.332000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
[17179573.332000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
[17179573.332000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
[17179573.352000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[17179573.352000] IO window: 4000-4fff
[17179573.352000] MEM window: c8100000-c81fffff
[17179573.352000] PREFETCH window: d0000000-d7ffffff
[17179573.352000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
[17179573.352000] IO window: disabled.
[17179573.352000] MEM window: disabled.
[17179573.352000] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[17179573.352000] PCI: Bus 12, cardbus bridge: 0000:0b:00.0
[17179573.352000] IO window: 00005400-000054ff
[17179573.352000] IO window: 00005800-000058ff
[17179573.352000] PREFETCH window: 30000000-31ffffff
[17179573.352000] MEM window: 32000000-33ffffff
[17179573.352000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
[17179573.352000] IO window: 5000-5fff
[17179573.352000] MEM window: c8200000-c82fffff
[17179573.352000] PREFETCH window: 30000000-31ffffff
[17179573.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179573.352000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
[17179573.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17179573.352000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
[17179573.352000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
[17179573.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179573.352000] Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1
[17179573.352000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[17179573.352000] audit(1162341291.352:1): initialized
[17179573.352000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[17179573.352000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[17179573.352000] Initializing Cryptographic API
[17179573.352000] io scheduler noop registered
[17179573.352000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[17179573.352000] io scheduler deadline registered
[17179573.352000] io scheduler cfq registered
[17179573.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179573.352000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
[17179573.352000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[17179573.352000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[17179573.352000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[17179573.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17179573.352000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
[17179573.352000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[17179573.352000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[17179573.352000] Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
[17179573.352000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[17179573.352000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[17179573.708000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[17179573.724000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[17179573.732000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[17179573.732000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[17179573.732000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[17179573.736000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1e.3[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
[17179573.736000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1e.3 disabled
[17179573.736000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[17179573.736000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[17179573.736000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[17179573.736000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[17179573.736000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[17179573.736000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[17179573.736000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 3
[17179573.736000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
[17179573.736000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5
[17179573.736000] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[17179573.736000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[17179573.772000] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[17179573.772000] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[17179573.772000] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[17179573.772000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[17179573.772000] TCP reno registered
[17179573.772000] TCP bic registered
[17179573.772000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[17179573.772000] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[17179573.772000] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[17179573.772000] Using IPI Shortcut mode
[17179573.772000] ACPI wakeup devices:
[17179573.772000] LAN KBC0 MSE0
[17179573.772000] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
[17179573.772000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed
[17179573.772000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[17179573.812000] vga16fb: initializing
[17179573.812000] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
[17179573.928000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25
[17179573.928000] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
[17179574.996000] Capability LSM initialized
[17179575.144000] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
[17179575.144000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (61 C)
[17179575.624000] ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
[17179575.624000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
[17179575.624000] ICH6: chipset revision 3
[17179575.624000] ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[17179575.624000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3c40-0x3c47, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
[17179575.624000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[17179575.916000] hda: ST9808211A, ATA DISK drive
[17179576.700000] hdb: MATSHITAUJ-840D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179576.756000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[17179576.760000] hda: max request size: 1024KiB
[17179576.760000] hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
[17179576.768000] hda: cache flushes supported
[17179576.768000] hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
[17179576.812000] hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, (U)DMA
[17179576.812000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[17179577.064000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[17179577.064000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[17179577.068000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
[17179577.068000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 225
[17179577.068000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
[17179577.068000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
[17179577.068000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[17179577.068000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 225, io base 0x00001800
[17179577.068000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179577.068000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179577.144000] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[17179577.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 233
[17179577.172000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
[17179577.172000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
[17179577.172000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[17179577.172000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 233, io base 0x000038c0
[17179577.172000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179577.172000] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179577.276000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
[17179577.276000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
[17179577.276000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
[17179577.276000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[17179577.276000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 217, io base 0x000038e0
[17179577.276000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179577.276000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179577.380000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179577.380000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
[17179577.380000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
[17179577.380000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[17179577.380000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 169, io base 0x00003c00
[17179577.380000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179577.380000] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179577.484000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 225
[17179577.484000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
[17179577.484000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
[17179577.484000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
[17179577.484000] PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
[17179577.484000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[17179577.484000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 225, io mem 0xc8000000
[17179577.488000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[17179577.488000] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179577.488000] hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[17179577.592000] ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
[17179577.592000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:00.2[C] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
[17179577.640000] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[209] MMIO=[c8208000-c82087ff] Max Packet=[2048]
[17179577.676000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[17179578.256000] Attempting manual resume
[17179578.292000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[17179578.308000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[17179578.912000] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[08002856000a7eff]
[17179588.576000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[17179588.580000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[17179588.700000] hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting
[17179588.708000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[17179588.712000] agpgart: Detected an Intel 915G Chipset.
[17179588.728000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x0
[17179589.348000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[17179589.372000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179589.372000] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:0b:00.0 [103c:3082]
[17179589.372000] Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
[17179589.372000] Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
[17179589.372000] Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
[17179589.372000] Yenta TI: socket 0000:0b:00.0, mfunc 0x01a01b22, devctl 0x64
[17179589.520000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1e.2[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
[17179589.520000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.2 to 64
[17179589.624000] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0cf8, PCI irq 169
[17179589.624000] Socket status: 30000006
[17179589.624000] Yenta: Raising subordinate bus# of parent bus (#0b) from #0d to #0f
[17179589.624000] pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x5000 - 0x5fff
[17179589.624000] cs: IO port probe 0x5000-0x5fff: clean.
[17179589.624000] pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xc8200000 - 0xc82fffff
[17179589.624000] pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x31ffffff
[17179589.660000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
[17179589.832000] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54304 usecs
[17179589.832000] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
[17179589.968000] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
[17179589.968000] cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
[17179589.972000] cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
[17179589.972000] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
[17179589.972000] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
[17179590.140000] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x80b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x20040a
[17179590.176000] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input2
[17179590.188000] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[17179590.356000] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
[17179590.356000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:02.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 50
[17179590.356000] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe0a44400, 00:c0:9f:b9:58:7e, IRQ 50[17179590.356000] eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
[17179590.364000] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
[17179590.424000] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver, 0.10
[17179590.424000] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[17179590.428000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:0b:00.4 (0000 -> 0002)
[17179590.428000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:00.4[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179590.476000] sdhci: ============== REGISTER DUMP ==============
[17179590.476000] sdhci: Sys addr: 0x00000000 | Version: 0x00008400
[17179590.476000] sdhci: Blk size: 0x00000000 | Blk cnt: 0x00000000
[17179590.476000] sdhci: Argument: 0x00000000 | Trn mode: 0x00000000
[17179590.476000] sdhci: Present: 0x00020000 | Host ctl: 0x00000000
[17179590.476000] sdhci: Power: 0x00000000 | Blk gap: 0x00000000
[17179590.476000] sdhci: Walk up: 0x00000000 | Clock: 0x00000002
[17179590.476000] sdhci: Timeout: 0x0000000e | Int stat: 0x00000000
[17179590.476000] sdhci: Int enab: 0x11ff00cf | Sig enab: 0x11ff00cf
[17179590.476000] sdhci: AC12 err: 0x00000000 | Slot int: 0x00000000
[17179590.476000] sdhci: Caps: 0x01821090 | Max curr: 0x00000000
[17179590.476000] sdhci: ===========================================
[17179590.528000] mmc0: SDHCI at 0xc8209000 irq 169 DMA
[17179590.576000] sdhci: ============== REGISTER DUMP ==============
[17179590.576000] sdhci: Sys addr: 0x00000000 | Version: 0x00008400
[17179590.576000] sdhci: Blk size: 0x00000000 | Blk cnt: 0x00000000
[17179590.576000] sdhci: Argument: 0x00000000 | Trn mode: 0x00000000
[17179590.576000] sdhci: Present: 0x00020000 | Host ctl: 0x00000000
[17179590.576000] sdhci: Power: 0x00000000 | Blk gap: 0x00000000
[17179590.576000] sdhci: Walk up: 0x00000000 | Clock: 0x00000002
[17179590.576000] sdhci: Timeout: 0x0000000e | Int stat: 0x00000000
[17179590.576000] sdhci: Int enab: 0x11ff00cf | Sig enab: 0x11ff00cf
[17179590.576000] sdhci: AC12 err: 0x00000000 | Slot int: 0x00000000
[17179590.576000] sdhci: Caps: 0x01821090 | Max curr: 0x00000000
[17179590.576000] sdhci: ===========================================
[17179590.676000] mmc1: SDHCI at 0xc8208c00 irq 169 DMA
[17179590.724000] sdhci: ============== REGISTER DUMP ==============
[17179590.724000] sdhci: Sys addr: 0x00000000 | Version: 0x00008400
[17179590.724000] sdhci: Blk size: 0x00000000 | Blk cnt: 0x00000000
[17179590.724000] sdhci: Argument: 0x00000000 | Trn mode: 0x00000000
[17179590.724000] sdhci: Present: 0x000a0000 | Host ctl: 0x00000000
[17179590.724000] sdhci: Power: 0x00000000 | Blk gap: 0x00000000
[17179590.724000] sdhci: Walk up: 0x00000000 | Clock: 0x00000002
[17179590.724000] sdhci: Timeout: 0x0000000e | Int stat: 0x00000000
[17179590.724000] sdhci: Int enab: 0x11ff00cf | Sig enab: 0x11ff00cf
[17179590.724000] sdhci: AC12 err: 0x00000000 | Slot int: 0x00000000
[17179590.724000] sdhci: Caps: 0x01821898 | Max curr: 0x00000000
[17179590.724000] sdhci: ===========================================
[17179590.824000] mmc2: SDHCI at 0xc8208800 irq 169 DMA
[17179591.400000] eth0: link down
[17179591.756000] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[17179591.812000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[17179591.820000] sbp2: $Rev: 1306 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
[17179591.820000] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
[17179591.820000] ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
[17179591.864000] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
[17179591.992000] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,07/21/2005, 3.140.16.0) loaded
[17179591.992000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:0b:03.0 (0000 -> 0002)
[17179591.992000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:03.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17179591.996000] ndiswrapper: using irq 177
[17179592.444000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[17179593.008000] wlan0: vendor: ''
[17179593.008000] wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:14:a5:14:0a:d6 using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4320:103C:12F8.5.conf
[17179593.008000] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
[17179593.056000] Adding 1510068k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1510068k
[17179593.292000] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
[17179593.472000] md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
[17179593.472000] md: bitmap version 4.39
[17179593.884000] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[17179594.948000] hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[17179594.948000] hdb: packet command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 }[17179594.948000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[17179594.948000] cdrom: open failed.
[17179600.240000] ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
[17179600.240000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
[17179600.316000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[17179600.316000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[17179600.316000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[17179600.316000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
[17179600.396000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[17179600.424000] pcc_acpi: loading...
[17179600.460000] wmi_add device=dfe2f800
[17179600.460000] calling WQBA
[17179600.512000] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[17179604.612000] [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
[17179604.624000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179604.624000] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.24.0 20060225 on minor 0
[17179605.780000] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[17179605.780000] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
[17179605.780000] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
[17179605.828000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[17179606.540000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[17179606.540000] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[17179610.588000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
[17179610.588000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[17179610.588000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[17179610.588000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[17179610.636000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[17179610.636000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[17179610.656000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[17179610.656000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[17179610.656000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7
[17179632.012000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[17179632.012000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[17179632.016000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[17179632.016000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[17179642.692000] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
[17179674.608000] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
[17179674.608000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[17179690.288000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

ckelly@ckelly-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:B9:58:7E
inet addr:192.168.2.104 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:feb9:587e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1714 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1613 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1415995 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:307317 (300.1 KiB)
Interrupt:50 Base address:0x4400

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:14:0A:D6
inet6 addr: fe80::214:a5ff:fe14:ad6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:177 Memory:c8206000-c8208000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:379 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:379 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:18972 (18.5 KiB) TX bytes:18972 (18.5 KiB)

ckelly@ckelly-laptop:~$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 No scan results
sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

ckelly@ckelly-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

ckelly@ckelhttp://ubuntuforums.org/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=1695554ly-laptop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

ckelly@ckelly-laptop:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
# This file lists those modules which we don't want to be loaded by
# alias expansion, usually so some other driver will be loaded for the
# device instead.

# evbug is a debug tool that should be loaded explicitly
blacklist evbug

# these drivers are very simple, the HID drivers are usually preferred
blacklist usbmouse
blacklist usbkbd

# replaced by e100
blacklist eepro100

# replaced by tulip
blacklist de4x5

# causes no end of confusion by creating unexpected network interfaces
blacklist eth1394

# snd_intel8x0m can interfere with snd_intel8x0, doesn't seem to support much
# hardware on its own (Ubuntu bug #2011, #6810)
blacklist snd_intel8x0m

# causes failure to suspend on HP compaq nc6000 (Ubuntu: #10306)
blacklist i2c_i801
blacklist bcm43xx
#module below does not work with Broadcom 4318 wireless cards
blacklist bcm43xx

ckelly@ckelly-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig eth1 up; sudo dhclient eth1
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

Listening on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:14:0a:d6
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:14:0a:d6
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.


the one thing i see is that the eth1 (Wireless) interface is setup with a inet6 addr: fe80::214:a5ff:fel4:ad6/64. it looks to me like the interface is not getting the ip address but an ip6 address? coule this be the problem?

you are almost there my friend

Thanks
Chris ( About 98% linux user):-D

[trubblemaker]

nah but for kicks you can black list it

sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

add

"blacklist ipv6"

do you like having eth1 as the ndiswrapper? as most howto's tell you to do ndiswrapper -m with would change the name to wlan0 you might give this a shot to change things up a bit.

what version of ndiswrapper did you use? I hate to make you do another howto but here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1696835&postcount=33) is a link to another post to show you howto do it from source, I think it's a matter of being on the latest ndiswrapper version. Wait your on edgy right or are you using dapper?

[trubblemaker]

you know what I changed my mind blacklist the ipv6 as I said above and while your at it for sure do
ndiswrapper -m

if that doesn't work (after reboot for good measure) then try the howto.

[ctopkelly]

Right now i am using Dapper. but i am going to upgrade to the latest version

[ctopkelly]

I know i am going to sound stupid but your first request was

sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklistnot sure that i can edit that file. i know ther is a way i can just blacklist something form the command line. Do you know what that is ?

your second request was

ndiswrapper -mthis is what i get

ckelly@ckelly-laptop:~$ ndiswrapper -m
modprobe config already contains alias directive
do i need to put eth1 or waln1 after that to make the change?

one other thing. how long have you been working with linux?

Thanks
Chris
( you can lead a horse to water but i cant get the broadcom chip to work )

[trubblemaker]

think it's time to start of with a clean install from source

that means removing all instances of ndiswrapper

sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper*
echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

*stop* if you can think of anywhere else that their might be ndiswrapper parts lying around, now is the time to find and destroy them.

then get and install from source.

cd ~
sudo apt-get install build-essential # install's make among other things
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` #needed so you can build kernel modules
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.37.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-1.37.tar.gz
cd ndiswrapper-1.37
sudo make uninstall
sudo make uninstall
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i /path/to/drivers/bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m

just paste the commands and all should be well.

*note* some users have reported they had to put 'ndiswrapper' at the bottom of '/etc/modules' so that it would load on boot.

[ctopkelly]

Ok my friend Let me tell you what i did, i just went out and got the latest version of ubuntu (the Edgy Eft 6.10) and installed it on my computer.

So i think i am starting from scrach as you are talking about in your post.

Lost allot of things i was working on but not a big deal.

if there is something i should do different then your post please let me know. I thought that being on the most uptodate so might have fixed things.

thanks
Chris

[trubblemaker]

clean install or update?

update
the above should work, (i upgraded from dapper, sucks as things broke. not a good upgrade)

install (recommended)
you may have to 'blacklist bcm43xx' if you did a clean install and you'd also need to find the drivers for you wireless card again.

I still recommend making from source and above instructions should do that without an issue.

[ctopkelly]

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

when i type this i get

-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-'uname-r'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-uname-r


what is uname-r part? sorry dont mean to sound stupid.
ctop

[ctopkelly]

it is a clean install

ctop

[trubblemaker]

awesome clean installs rule
it's a back-quote [`] not a quote[']
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
it just gets you the name of your current kernel.
if you paste it as is it'll run

[ctopkelly]

awesome clean installs rule
it's a back-quote [`] not a quote[']
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
it just gets you the name of your current kernel.
if you paste it as is it'll run

when i run

chris@MyOwnGeek-laptop:~/ndiswrapper-1.28$ ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/bcmwl5.inf
bash: ndiswrapper: command not found

???
ctop

[trubblemaker]

and all the previous steps ran without error? can you run and post the out put and yes I want you to run uninstall twice

sorry mixed up the order on some steps

sudo make install
ndiswrapper -i /path/to/drivers/bcmwl5.inf
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo ndiswrapper -m

should have been
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i /path/to/drivers/bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m

my bad

[ctopkelly]

this is what i got. but i think i got something diffrent the first time. does this mean it is already installed?

chris@MyOwnGeek-laptop:~/ndiswrapper-1.28$ sudo make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/chris/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/chris/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic'
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic'
echo /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/misc
/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/misc
mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/misc
install -m 0644 ndiswrapper.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/misc
/sbin/depmod -a 2.6.17-10-generic -b /
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chris/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver'
make -C utils install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/chris/ndiswrapper-1.28/utils'
gcc -g -Wall -I../driver -o loadndisdriver loadndisdriver.c
loadndisdriver.c:15:20: error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:16:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:17:19: error: errno.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:18:20: error: string.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:19:20: error: libgen.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:21:22: error: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:23:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:24:23: error: sys/ioctl.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:25:22: error: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:26:20: error: unistd.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:27:19: error: fcntl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include/syslimits.h:7,
from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include/limits.h:11,
from loadndisdriver.c:28:
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include/limits.h:122:61: error: limits.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:29:19: error: ctype.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:30:20: error: dirent.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:31:20: error: syslog.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:34:25: error: linux/major.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:35:25: error: linux/ioctl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from loadndisdriver.c:37:
../driver/loader.h:24: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘size_t’
loadndisdriver.c: In function ‘load_file’:
loadndisdriver.c:67: error: ‘size_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:67: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
loadndisdriver.c:67: error: for each function it appears in.)
loadndisdriver.c:67: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘size’
loadndisdriver.c:68: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:69: error: storage size of ‘statbuf’ isn’t known
loadndisdriver.c:71: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘basename’
loadndisdriver.c:71: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
loadndisdriver.c:73: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘open’
loadndisdriver.c:73: error: ‘O_RDONLY’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:75: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘syslog’
loadndisdriver.c:75: error: ‘LOG_KERN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:75: error: ‘LOG_INFO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:75: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strerror’
loadndisdriver.c:75: error: ‘errno’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:76: error: ‘EINVAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:79: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘fstat’
loadndisdriver.c:81: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘close’
loadndisdriver.c:84: error: ‘size’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:86: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘mmap’
loadndisdriver.c:86: error: ‘PROT_READ’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:86: error: ‘MAP_PRIVATE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:86: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
loadndisdriver.c:87: error: ‘MAP_FAILED’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:93: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strncpy’
loadndisdriver.c:93: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strncpy’
loadndisdriver.c:95: error: ‘struct load_driver_file’ has no member named ‘size’
loadndisdriver.c:96: error: ‘struct load_driver_file’ has no member named ‘data’
loadndisdriver.c:69: warning: unused variable ‘statbuf’
loadndisdriver.c: In function ‘parse_setting_line’:
loadndisdriver.c:109: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘isspace’
loadndisdriver.c:115: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strchr’
loadndisdriver.c:115: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strchr’
loadndisdriver.c:115: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:117: error: ‘LOG_KERN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:117: error: ‘LOG_INFO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:118: error: ‘EINVAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:138: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strlen’
loadndisdriver.c:138: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strlen’
loadndisdriver.c: In function ‘read_conf_file’:
loadndisdriver.c:150: error: storage size of ‘statbuf’ isn’t known
loadndisdriver.c:151: error: ‘FILE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:151: error: ‘config’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:157: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘lstat’
loadndisdriver.c:158: error: ‘LOG_KERN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:158: error: ‘LOG_INFO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:158: error: ‘errno’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:160: error: ‘EINVAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:163: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘sscanf’
loadndisdriver.c:163: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘sscanf’
loadndisdriver.c:179: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘fopen’
loadndisdriver.c:179: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:183: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘fgets’
loadndisdriver.c:195: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strncpy’
loadndisdriver.c:206: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘fclose’
loadndisdriver.c:150: warning: unused variable ‘statbuf’
loadndisdriver.c: In function ‘load_bin_file’:
loadndisdriver.c:219: error: ‘LOG_KERN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:219: error: ‘LOG_INFO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:221: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘tolower’
loadndisdriver.c:223: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘chdir’
loadndisdriver.c:224: error: ‘errno’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:226: error: ‘EINVAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:232: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strncpy’
loadndisdriver.c:234: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ioctl’
loadndisdriver.c:234: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘_IOW’
loadndisdriver.c:234: error: expected expression before ‘struct’
loadndisdriver.c: In function ‘load_driver’:
loadndisdriver.c:252: error: ‘DIR’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:252: error: ‘driver_dir’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:254: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:258: error: ‘LOG_KERN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:258: error: ‘LOG_INFO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:260: error: ‘errno’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:262: error: ‘EINVAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:264: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘opendir’
loadndisdriver.c:270: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘malloc’
loadndisdriver.c:270: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘malloc’
loadndisdriver.c:274: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘memset’
loadndisdriver.c:274: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘memset’
loadndisdriver.c:275: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strncpy’
loadndisdriver.c:283: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘readdir’
loadndisdriver.c:283: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
loadndisdriver.c:285: error: storage size of ‘statbuf’ isn’t known
loadndisdriver.c:287: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:290: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘stat’
loadndisdriver.c:290: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:291: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘S_ISREG’
loadndisdriver.c:292: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:297: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strlen’
loadndisdriver.c:297: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:299: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strcasecmp’
loadndisdriver.c:299: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:302: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:305: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:306: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:308: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:314: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:315: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:316: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strcpy’
loadndisdriver.c:316: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strcpy’
loadndisdriver.c:317: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:320: error: ‘struct load_driver_file’ has no member named ‘size’
loadndisdriver.c:321: error: ‘struct load_driver_file’ has no member named ‘data’
loadndisdriver.c:324: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:285: warning: unused variable ‘statbuf’
loadndisdriver.c:347: error: expected expression before ‘struct’
loadndisdriver.c:349: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘closedir’
loadndisdriver.c:351: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘free’
loadndisdriver.c:358: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘munmap’
loadndisdriver.c:358: error: ‘struct load_driver_file’ has no member named ‘data’
loadndisdriver.c:358: error: ‘struct load_driver_file’ has no member named ‘size’
loadndisdriver.c:360: error: ‘struct load_driver_file’ has no member named ‘data’
loadndisdriver.c:360: error: ‘struct load_driver_file’ has no member named ‘size’
loadndisdriver.c: In function ‘get_device’:
loadndisdriver.c:371: error: storage size of ‘statbuf’ isn’t known
loadndisdriver.c:374: error: ‘LOG_KERN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:374: error: ‘LOG_INFO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:377: error: ‘errno’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:378: error: ‘EINVAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:380: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘snprintf’
loadndisdriver.c:380: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘snprintf’
loadndisdriver.c:403: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strncpy’
loadndisdriver.c:371: warning: unused variable ‘statbuf’
loadndisdriver.c: In function ‘load_device’:
loadndisdriver.c:415: error: ‘DIR’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:415: error: ‘dir’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:419: error: ‘LOG_KERN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:419: error: ‘LOG_INFO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:420: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘memset’
loadndisdriver.c:422: error: ‘errno’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:423: error: ‘EINVAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:425: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:430: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
loadndisdriver.c:431: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:432: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:435: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
loadndisdriver.c:444: error: expected expression before ‘struct’
loadndisdriver.c: In function ‘get_ioctl_device’:
loadndisdriver.c:461: error: ‘FILE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:461: error: ‘proc_misc’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:469: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strstr’
loadndisdriver.c:469: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strstr’
loadndisdriver.c:470: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strtol’
loadndisdriver.c:470: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:480: error: ‘LOG_KERN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:480: error: ‘LOG_INFO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:485: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘unlink’
loadndisdriver.c:486: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘mknod’
loadndisdriver.c:486: error: ‘S_IFCHR’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:486: error: ‘MISC_MAJOR’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:488: error: ‘errno’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:493: error: ‘O_RDONLY’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c: In function ‘main’:
loadndisdriver.c:509: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘openlog’
loadndisdriver.c:509: error: ‘LOG_PERROR’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:509: error: ‘LOG_CONS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:509: error: ‘LOG_KERN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:509: error: ‘LOG_DEBUG’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:511: error: ‘LOG_INFO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:513: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strncmp’
loadndisdriver.c:515: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘printf’
loadndisdriver.c:515: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf’
loadndisdriver.c:525: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘atoi’
loadndisdriver.c:540: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘atof’
loadndisdriver.c:547: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strcmp’
loadndisdriver.c:554: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘sscanf’
loadndisdriver.c:588: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘closelog’
make[1]: *** [loadndisdriver] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chris/ndiswrapper-1.28/utils'
make: *** [install] Error 2


This i get this
chris@MyOwnGeek-laptop:~/ndiswrapper-1.28$ modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted


and then this

chris@MyOwnGeek-laptop:~/ndiswrapper-1.28$ ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/bcmwl5.infbash: ndiswrapper: command not found


then
chris@MyOwnGeek-laptop:~/ndiswrapper-1.28$ sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo: ndiswrapper: command not found


Ctop

[trubblemaker]

looks like make never worked. you need to run

cd ndiswrapper-1.28
sudo make clean
sudo make uninstall
sudo make uninstall
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i /path/to/drivers/bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m

and post the output to me or check that all ran without errors, make sure to run "sudo make uninstall" twice this time. as you didn't install for some reason last time. If the make step fails then their may have been an issue installing your kernel source

[ctopkelly]

the strangest things are happing my wireless card worked last night but today it is not showing up in the network App.

when i do a ndiswrapper -l
installed drivers:
bcmwl5,inf invalid driver!

if config gives me this
th0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:B9:58:7E
inet addr:192.168.1.8 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8654 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4313301 (4.1 MiB) TX bytes:796894 (778.2 KiB)
Interrupt:50 Base address:0xa400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)


iwlist scan gives me this
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

also when i try to uninstall the bcmwl5.inf driver i get this
couldn't delete /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5.inf


I have no idea. i want this to work so bad

Ctop](*,)

[robin.w]

Hey ctopkelly :-k ,

I also used ndiswrapper approx. 3 days ago and unfortunately I lost my wi-fi interface eth1, too!!! I checked all lists (lspci, modprobe) and everything seems to be fine but you know. ](*,) It's awful.

If you get any idea how to fix it please let me know.

[ctopkelly]

if i get anything i will post it for you

this is killing me

ctop

[trubblemaker]

you need to remove the invalid driver and install the good one again.

there is a way to manually delete the "driver" it actaully just a folder located somewhere, sorry can't remeber where, I'll do a find and post back in a second.

you should remove the driver, and then try to install the correct one, then modprobe ndiswrapper.

dmesg | grep ndis will probably show some errors.

[ctopkelly]

yes i see this folder under etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl6.inf just delete the folder and reinstall the driver?

one other thing if you want to delete the folder in a file browser how do you do that? it keeps telling me i do not have the rights. or how do you get the root rights while doing that?

Thanks
ctop

[trubblemaker]

found it

rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5,inf
should get rid of your bad driver, then you just have to follow the rest of the above post
*note to others *
rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/<name of driver> will remove other bad drivers

[trubblemaker]

yes i see this folder under etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl6.inf just delete the folder and reinstall the driver?

one other thing if you want to delete the folder in a file browser how do you do that? it keeps telling me i do not have the rights. or how do you get the root rights while doing that?

Thanks
ctop

just do it in a terminal

sudo rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/<bad driver>

[ctopkelly]

i just have one question.

i just removed the driver and installed a new one but when i run the command

sudo ndiswrapper -m
modprobe config already contains alias directive

This is what i get? is this right?

I am going to reboot and let you know what happens

Ctop

[trubblemaker]

that is the expected behavouir yes, if you've already done it once.
good luck

[trubblemaker]

FYI reboot are rarely necessary in linux, as we can load and unload drivers, unlike windows, only if you want to test boot time settings, or don't feel like stoping and starting a service.

[ctopkelly]

OK after reboot i checked the network app and it was there!!!!

then i did a sudo iwlist scan and got this
$ sudo iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:30:BD:63:A0:82
ESSID:"WLAN"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:78/100 Signal level:-46 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Cell 02 - Address: 00:06:25:3C:1A:FB
ESSID:"NJPRWAP01"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:48/100 Signal level:-65 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Cell 03 - Address: 00:06:25:67:1C:C6
ESSID:"Audiology"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:15/100 Signal level:-86 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Cell 04 - Address: 00:12:17:A2:66:60
ESSID:"linksys-g"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:29/100 Signal level:-77 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0


looks like it is up and running. great i wounder what happend today and why it worked last night and not today? clueless.....

Ctop

[trubblemaker]

probably some wierd driver loading thing,

now there is the matter of my fee. You have to at one point in your life, not necessarily today or tomorrow, help someone fix a problem on a forum. And one day add something to a howto on a wiki. (not write a wiki-page but help contribute even if it's only one line)

Glad to have you one step closer to tossing windows out.

[ctopkelly]

Hey ctopkelly :-k ,

I also used ndiswrapper approx. 3 days ago and unfortunately I lost my wi-fi interface eth1, too!!! I checked all lists (lspci, modprobe) and everything seems to be fine but you know. ](*,) It's awful.

If you get any idea how to fix it please let me know.

we worked out the answer to my problems. you may wnat to read the post and fix yours. what driver are you using? first thing i did was delete the folder under /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5.inf
then ran
sudo ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5.inf
then reinstalled it
sudo ndiswrapper -i /path to the driver/bcmwl5.inf

i rebooted but i was told you dont have to reboot much in linux. ( old windows habit)

if you have any questions let me know i am not the best but i just worked this whole thing out over the past two day.

latter

Ctop

[freshmaker]

I am abslolutely green newbie using Ubuntu or any kind of Linux for the first time in my life. I isntalled it on my Gateway 7430JP which is the Japanese version of Gateway 7510GX Laptop. Initially my Wireless Lan did not want to start at all. I tried everything I could find in ubuntu forums but nothing worked for me. I was almost desperate when I found this http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25683 it took me not more than 5 minutes and ... everything went just the way it had to be. I am so excited now... 8)
thank you ... :D

[StormGuy]

I attempted to follow the guide, but it's not working for me. Whenever I ndiswrapper -l, it tells me that bcmwl5 and bcmwl5.inf are invalid drivers. If I try to use the wireless config commands, it fails to find any wireless devices. I have uninstalled ndiswrapper, attempted to uninstall the drivers (it won't let me, telling me it can't unlink them), and rebooted. I've done these things in as many different orders as I can think of and also restarted at the beginning of the guide several times.

I'm a complete newb, so it's likely that I just don't really understand what I'm doing, and in trying to follow instructions, left something important out that was implied, but I failed to pick up or...I don't know. ](*,)

Sorry about the vagueness. I know I have a broadcom 4311 card and that it is integrated into my machine. I know the machine initially detected it when I installed Ubuntu, but now it isn't. Other than that, I'm kinda lost. :confused:

This is the most recent thing I tried:

opus@Serenity:~/Desktop$ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5
Installing bcmwl5
couldn't copy bcmwl5 at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.8 line 144.
opus@Serenity:~/Desktop$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!

edit: Oh...wasn't using sudo. That's why I couldn't remove em. Well, I can remove them now, but it still insists they're invalid when I attempt to reinstall them.

I then tried this:

opus@Serenity:~/Desktop$ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
Installing bcmwl5
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
opus@Serenity:~/Desktop$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!

:(

[trubblemaker]

did you remove the old driver first?
I suggest
sudo ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
ndiswrapper -l
[code]
if it's uninstalled great !
other wise to manually uninstall it.
[code] sudo rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5
make sure the old bcm43xx driver is blacklisted.
then add the new driver and reboot.
then try and see if the card is recognized.

[StormGuy]

opus@Serenity:~$ sudo rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5
opus@Serenity:~$ ndiswrapper -l
No drivers installed
opus@Serenity:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5
Installing bcmwl5
couldn't copy bcmwl5 at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.8 line 144.
opus@Serenity:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!
opus@Serenity:~$


It looks like I'm able to remove it...but it's still invalid. Also, what is blacklisting? Sorry...I'm completely new :(

[trubblemaker]

ok so couple things, with the bcmwl5.inf file do you also have the bcmwl5.sys file? It's not often explicilty mentioned that both files need to be in the same dircectory when you run

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

or pointed to like so

ndiswrapper -i /path/to/driver/files/bcmwl5.inf

secondly there is a native driver that is installed by default that 'causes issues with ndiswrapper. We blacklist the driver so it doesn't load and we can use ndiswrapper. (for instruction on howto use the native driver, check the howto in my signature.)
the onliner to blacklist the native driver is:

echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

you can get more info on why the driver failed to load with

dmesg | grep ndis

it would also be nice if you posted the output of that above command so I could further help you

[StormGuy]

That command doesn't seem to work for me

opus@Serenity:~/broadcom$ dmeg | grep ndis
bash: dmeg: command not found

[mrpeanut]

Does anyone know whether or not this method works with the AMD64 version of Edgy? I was browsing through the bcmwl5.inf file and I saw that there was a section labeled AMD64 Specific. I have a HP Pavilion dv2125nr Notebook. I will attempt this method soon on the AMD64 version, and post whether it's successful or not.

[MisterD]

That command doesn't seem to work for me

opus@Serenity:~/broadcom$ dmeg | grep ndis
bash: dmeg: command not found

Just a typo, instead of dmeg substitute dmesg and that will work.

[StormGuy]

Ah, sorry.


opus@Serenity:/sbin$ dmesg | grep ndis
[ 39.217198] ndiswrapper version 1.22 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
[ 39.315461] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:113): loadndiswrapper failed (65280); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'


This is what I found in the log file the command mentioned:


opus@Serenity:/sbin$ cat loadndisdriver
#!/bin/sh

set -e

if [ -z "$3" ]; then
echo "Error: no version specified!" 1>&2
exit 1
fi

/sbin/loadndisdriver-$3 "$@"
opus@Serenity:/sbin$

[trubblemaker]

don't have my machine to check but the ndiswrapper your using looks old (1.22) I thought the version you installed was 1.8? and just to confirm, the bcmwl5.sys file is in the same directory as the bcmwl5.inf?

also I think that dmesg | grep loadndisdriver might also be helpfull I didn't think they meant to cat loadndisdriver, that message looks like it would print for you using the wrong driver or missing the bcmwl.sys file.

[StormGuy]

Ah, before I installed all of the ndis packages in synaptic. I went back and only installed Common and 1.8utilities. Is that right?

Here's what I get now:


opus@Serenity:~/Desktop$ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5
Password:
Installing bcmwl5
couldn't copy bcmwl5 at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.8 line 144.
opus@Serenity:~/Desktop$ ls
bcmwl5.inf bcmwl5.sys
opus@Serenity:~/Desktop$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!
opus@Serenity:~/Desktop$


and


opus@Serenity:~/Desktop$ dmesg | grep loadndisdriver
[ 39.315461] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:113): loadndiswrapper failed (65280); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'


And yeah, both bcmwl5.sys and .inf are on my desktop. Though, it's only them. And this is where I do my ndissing

[trubblemaker]

I don't know how else to say it, but it dapper /deb apparently doesn't work with edgy and I've been helping alot of people that upgraded and are now broken.

I suggest installing it from source, follow this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1699287&postcount=451) and it should only take 10 mins. Ignore the blacklisting of ipv6 that's for a different issue.

[StormGuy]

That worked perfectly, thank you so much :)

[trubblemaker]

it's all about karma, now hopefully you will help someone some day,

[dtlinker]

Thank you. This fixed my broken wireless connection on a Dell Inspiron B130 after upgrading to Edgy.

[Protoplasm]

hi... look here's my problem

6 July 2006 Update
I haven't had a Broadcom card for many months, but I've been told this how-to doesn't work properly under Dapper. Here are a couple of links that have been passed to me - but I can't vouch for their quality.

http://www.beginningubuntu.com/dappe...wifi_wor king
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201902

Good luck. I'm very happy that this how-to has helped so many people in the past year or so.

Broadcom wireless cards are tricky to set up in ubuntu, and the forums are full of frustrated users seeking advice. Broadcom provide no Linux support (feel free to complain to your hardware vendor or choose a different card if you haven't yet shelled out your cash), but they can be made to work - and you're in the right place if you want to know how.

First, you need to find out if this How To is for you. Broadcom wireless cards come under many brand names and, in particular, are used in many Dell and Acer laptops. Look for the drivers supplied with your card (Dell usually store a copy in C:/DRIVERS/NETWORK/ADDON); if you have a file called bcmwl5.inf or bcmwl5a.inf then keep on reading. You won't succeed without following these instructions!

0. Before you start, clear out any mess from existing failed attempts to use ndiswrapper. Note that you shouldn't use a root terminal to execute the code in this how-to; use a normal terminal session instead.
Code:

sudo modprobe -r bcmwl5 sudo rmmod ndiswrapper sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-utils sudo rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/ sudo rm -r /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper

Some of these steps may report errors; just ignore them.

1. Copy the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys files to your desktop

2. Follow the advice given here under How to add extra repositories

3. Open a terminal session and enter this code. Note that you need an active network connection for this to work; I've assumed that if you have access to a wireless LAN, you also have access to a wired network as a fallback.
Code:

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/bcmwl5.inf sudo ndiswrapper -m for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile done

4. Reboot your PC. On restarting, the light on your wireless card should come on. If not, try entering
Code:

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

5. Your card is now working. Open the networking configuration tool System --> Administration --> Networking

6. Select your wireless network card (probably wlan0) and hit the properties button.

7. Tick the 'This device is configured' box, and enter your network name and connection settings. Ask your office network administrator for support if you don't know what this question means, or copy your settings from Windows.

8. BE CAREFUL entering your WEP key, if you're using one. You're expected to enter this in hexadecimal form; if you don't speak hex, prefix your key with s:

9. Click OK. The screen should close fairly quickly; if it hangs, you probably aren't connected properly.

10. Back in the Network Settings screen, select your wireless device as the default gateway device.

11. Click OK. Again, the screen should close fairly quickly.

12. Enjoy wireless nirvana. If everything works, you can delete the file from your desktop.

13. You might notice that the signal strength applet doesn't work properly. This is a known bug with these cards.

If you have trouble, try booting into Windows - if you dual boot - and checking that the card is enabled. Some laptops allow the wireless card to be switched off, usually with a special key combination, and I've not found a reliable way to make this work in Linux.

(Note: This how-to has been updated to reflect all comments from the thread up to 19 April)


i do all the thing but when i restarta my pc and start on ubuntu i type

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

but nothing happend... i can't use my card and on the networking window it not appear...

pls help mee...](*,)

[trubblemaker]

Protoplasm great that you posted. Next time, it would help if you did something to show the difference between the steps you followed and your question. like using indentations or something.

Now as per your question.

well define nothing happens:

In linux, nothing happening is a sign that things are working properly so you won't get any output from "sudo modprobe ndiswrapper". Can you post the output of the following commands for me:

sudo ifup wlan0 # looking for ip address if you get one... your done
ifconfig # lists interfaces currently 'up'
iwconfig # lists wirless interfaces
iwlist scan # tells you close wireless networks
cat /etc/network/interfaces # lists interfaces that wakeup on boot
ndiswrapper -l # lists ndiswrapper installed drivers
dmesg | grep ndiswrapper # looks for ndiswraper errors
lspci | grep controller # tells me your physical wireless card

ping 192.168.1.1 # tests local network


this will help me to figure out where your at

[Early Uiniverse]

Hi, I am trying to set up Ubuntu 6.06 on Acer 5102 WLMi (dual booting with Windows). I decided to go with the 64bit version... And as almost everybody here I have a problem setting up the wireless. I've seen some really promising threads on the Broadcom cards but alas none worked so far although I reckon it is just my inexperience] :-?

To make it short:

1. I have a fresh install and I followed the steps in this howto

2. I manage to install the drivers bcmwl5.inf/sys at least judging from

ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

But I have a problem using this driver instead of the 43xx one. When I blacklist the 43xx there is n wireless interface eth1/wlan0 vanish :(
As far as I can tell it is probably connected to

dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
[ 44.449928] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
[ 44.485584] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:112): loadndiswrapper failed (65280); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'

The other problem I noticed is that during the boot there is a message that some .conf file cannot be read...

Yet another issue I'm not sure about is which interface ndiswrapper works with is it wlan0 or eth1 can there be a clash?? No clue on this...

Hope someone can help... Thx

[trubblemaker]

Hi, I am trying to set up Ubuntu 6.06 on Acer 5102 WLMi (dual booting with Windows). I decided to go with the 64bit version... And as almost everybody here I have a problem setting up the wireless. I've seen some really promising threads on the Broadcom cards but alas none worked so far although I reckon it is just my inexperience] :-?

To make it short:

1. I have a fresh install and I followed the steps in this howto

2. I manage to install the drivers bcmwl5.inf/sys at least judging from

ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

But I have a problem using this driver instead of the 43xx one. When I blacklist the 43xx there is n wireless interface eth1/wlan0 vanish :(
As far as I can tell it is probably connected to

dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
[ 44.449928] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
[ 44.485584] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:112): loadndiswrapper failed (65280); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
The other problem I noticed is that during the boot there is a message that some .conf file cannot be read...

Yet another issue I'm not sure about is which interface ndiswrapper works with is it wlan0 or eth1 can there be a clash?? No clue on this...

Hope someone can help... Thx
yes totally there is a clash. both drivers try and work with the hardware at the same time.

I think that you need to actually work with the red howto in my signature as it has 64-bit drivers. It's really easy, I think it even comes with a script to do it all for you.

[Early Uiniverse]

Thanks trubblemaker for getting back to me... I tried that howto by compwiz412 as the first thing but it didn't work. I then found out that there is no driver ndiswrapper can work with as I didn't install the bcmwl5.inf/sys drivers. If it is supposed to load any of the 64-bit drivers than it failed as there was no output on

ndiswrapper -l

Should I install the bcmwl5.inf before executing the script ?

Thx

[trubblemaker]

To get the best answer you should post on that forum. I'm not sure of the exact steps that script follows it's been a while. I'm aware of it's success and have heard alot about it's ease of use. I'm sure if you post to it you'll get more specfic help

[StormGuy]

I somehow managed to break my wireless after having it work for several months. It happened right after I changed a setting in my bios so that it knew that my OS was plug-and-play. I tried changing it back, and that didn't help. I also tried removing and reinstalling ndiswrapper along with the wrapped driver for my broadcom card...still nothing :(

I went back through all the steps I went through to get to this point...but something is still wrong.

[trubblemaker]

You might need to install from source it's a good fix if this doesn't work, check my signature "ndis for form source"

[mzweili]

Hi,
I folowed exactly your instruction and got the following message:
marc@marc-laptop:~$ for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
> sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
> done
bash: /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318.5.conf: Permission non accordée

Could you give me a hint how to continue?

Marc

Acer 500sWMLI Ubuntu 6.10 64 bit

[trubblemaker]

it sucks but you can manually

sudo gedit /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318.5.conf

and change the radio state

RadioState|1 --> RadioState|0

then close and save the file then you can continue with the steps.

[mzweili]

it sucks but you can manually

sudo gedit /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318.5.conf

and change the radio state

RadioState|1 --> RadioState|0

then close and save the file then you can continue with the steps.

Could you tell me what I have to edit?

NdisVersion|0x50001
Environment|1
BusType|5
class_guid|4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318
mac_address|XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
driver_version|Broadcom,02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0

Afterburner|0
antdiv|-1
ApCompatMode|0
BadFramePreempt|0
BTCoexist|0
ccx_rm|1
ccx_rm_limit|300
Channel|11
Country|
EnableAutoConnect|0
EnableSoftAP|0
frag|2346
FrameBursting|0
gpio0|-1
gpio1|-1
gpio2|-1
gpio3|-1
IBSSGMode|2
IBSSGProtection|2
IBSSLink|1
Interference_Mode|3
MPC|0
NetworkAddress|
NetworkType|-1
PLCPHeader|0
PowerSaveMode|0
PwrOut|100
RadioState|0
Rate|0
RoamDelta|1
RoamTrigger|-70
rts|2347
scan_channel_time|-1
scan_home_time|-1
scan_passes|-1
scan_unassoc_time|-1
SSID|
WEP|
WME|0
WZCCoexist|0

Marc

[trubblemaker]

Could you tell me what I have to edit?

NdisVersion|0x50001
Environment|1
BusType|5
class_guid|4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318
mac_address|XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
driver_version|Broadcom,02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0

Afterburner|0
antdiv|-1
ApCompatMode|0
BadFramePreempt|0
BTCoexist|0
ccx_rm|1
ccx_rm_limit|300
Channel|11
Country|
EnableAutoConnect|0
EnableSoftAP|0
frag|2346
FrameBursting|0
gpio0|-1
gpio1|-1
gpio2|-1
gpio3|-1
IBSSGMode|2
IBSSGProtection|2
IBSSLink|1
Interference_Mode|3
MPC|0
NetworkAddress|
NetworkType|-1
PLCPHeader|0
PowerSaveMode|0
PwrOut|100
RadioState|0
Rate|0
RoamDelta|1
RoamTrigger|-70
rts|2347
scan_channel_time|-1
scan_home_time|-1
scan_passes|-1
scan_unassoc_time|-1
SSID|
WEP|
WME|0
WZCCoexist|0

Marc

so that file was already edited... weird, ok I guess it's time to try out ndiswrapper,

try
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo dhclient wlan0