Imac core2duo wireless poblem

[bimo]

Hey,

I am a newbie in linux world and just installed an OS for the first time
which is ubuntu 7.04 on my mac
but i have a problem with the broadcom BCM4328 device.
I have searched on the net for 5 days and already tried many guide using ndiswrapper and bcmxx cutter and none of them works
Can anyone help me....

[joselin]

Follow this howto (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-558940.html?sid=cab6d6cae8b5cb40bc7abcbec1d22daf) i found, works like a charm.

[bimo]

thx...

[bimo]

Can you help me with this
so when i entered the command on the terminal
it shows

bimo@bimo-desktop:/$ emerge ndiswrapper wpa_supplicant wireless-tools
bash: emerge: command not found
bimo@bimo-desktop:/$ cd /etc
bimo@bimo-desktop:/etc$ mkdir wireless
mkdir: cannot create directory `wireless': Permission denied
bimo@bimo-desktop:/etc$ cd wireless
bash: cd: wireless: No such file or directory
bimo@bimo-desktop:/etc$ wget http://www.touslesdrivers.com/fichiers/broadcom/Broadcom_BCM43XX_4.100.15.5.zip
--23:42:50-- http://www.touslesdrivers.com/fichiers/broadcom/Broadcom_BCM43XX_4.100.15.5.zip
=> `Broadcom_BCM43XX_4.100.15.5.zip'
Resolving www.touslesdrivers.com... 212.94.176.153
Connecting to www.touslesdrivers.com|212.94.176.153|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 42,172,583 (40M) [application/x-zip-compressed]
Broadcom_BCM43XX_4.100.15.5.zip: Permission denied

Cannot write to `Broadcom_BCM43XX_4.100.15.5.zip' (Permission denied).
bimo@bimo-desktop:/etc$ unzip Broadcom_BCM43XX_4.100.15.5.zip
unzip: cannot find or open Broadcom_BCM43XX_4.100.15.5.zip, Broadcom_BCM43XX_4.100.15.5.zip.zip or Broadcom_BCM43XX_4.100.15.5.zip.ZIP.
bimo@bimo-desktop:/etc$ ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

[joselin]

Instead of this use the following:

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 wpasupplicantand then:

Emerge is for gentoo like apt-get for ubuntu.


cd
mkdir wireless
cd wireless
wget http://www.touslesdrivers.com/fichiers/broadcom/Broadcom_BCM43XX_4.100.15.5.zip
unzip Broadcom_BCM43XX_4.100.15.5.zip
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

[You should get no errors here]

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
dmesg


At this point if you restart your network you must have wireless access.
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

[ronocdh]

I would just like to add that the permission error during mkdir was because the command wasn't preceded by sudo, which stands for "superuser do" and is basically the command that makes the system do what you want. ;)

Funny cartoon (http://meuk.infx.nl/sandwich.png). :popcorn:

[russo.mic]

Ronocdh,

Great cartoon.

Russo

[ronocdh]

Ronocdh,

Great cartoon.

Russo
I'm glad you enjoyed it; I for one really like it. Sorry to thread hijack, but I poked around the parent directory and found this one (http://meuk.infx.nl/vgcats.jpg), too. Hopefully you get a kick out of that one.

:popcorn: