mrvgarg
November 1st, 2006, 10:59 AM
After reading many broadcom wireless guides this is what finally worked for me. You should also install automatix2
Open terminal and type this:
sudo rmmod bcm43xx
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
add "blacklist bcm43xx" to the bottom of the file. Without the quotation marks.
Close terminal.
Open automatix2 and install ndwiswrapper.
Download your broadcom driver from the manufacturer's site to your desktop. If it is a .exe file use cabextractor to extract it. You should have a .inf and .sys file.
Open terminal. and go to desktop. (cd Desktop). Now type
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo gedit /etc/modules
and add ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
At this stage if you get fatal errors do
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.8 ndiswrapper-utils-1.1 ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-common
To get WPA working install the network manager.
Open terminal and type this:
sudo rmmod bcm43xx
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
add "blacklist bcm43xx" to the bottom of the file. Without the quotation marks.
Close terminal.
Open automatix2 and install ndwiswrapper.
Download your broadcom driver from the manufacturer's site to your desktop. If it is a .exe file use cabextractor to extract it. You should have a .inf and .sys file.
Open terminal. and go to desktop. (cd Desktop). Now type
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo gedit /etc/modules
and add ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
At this stage if you get fatal errors do
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.8 ndiswrapper-utils-1.1 ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-common
To get WPA working install the network manager.