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HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards
Hardy
This process is vastly simplified in Hardy. The easiest way to do it is to open the Hardware Drivers program (go to the System menu in the top left corner of the screen, and click Administration, and then Hardware Drivers) and check the Broadcom B43 wireless driver box, and reboot.
Done. :KS
A couple of notes about that procedure:
It installs the b43 driver, which is semi-open source. The b43 driver works decently and will cover most peoples' wireless needs, and is easy to setup. However, you can also choose to use ndiswrapper, which will provide you with a slightly faster connection. For information on how to set that up, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766560.
Those of you using WEP may also want to note:
Quote:
Originally Posted by DrSpirograph
However, you may want to mention that there seems to be a bit of a bug with the way NetworkManager handles WEP + DHCP.
(See here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/139812)
The bug made me (and I suspect may make others) think that their card isn't working, when in fact it is.
To work around and get WEP going, you can do the following:
Code:
sudoedit /etc/network/interfaces
add the line
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
then, to get the network up, do the following (replacing $ESSID and $KEY with the proper ESSID and key):
Code:
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid $ESSID key $KEY sudo ifup wlan0
About
The information below is for versions of Ubuntu older then Hardy (Gutsy, Feisty, Edgy, Dapper)
This HOWTO is for people who have a Broadcom 4318 Wireless card in their laptop. This card can sometimes be a bit ;) difficult to setup, so I have provided a working method (for me, anyway).
To check if you have a Broadcom 4318 Card, open up the terminal (click the Applications button, then Accessories, and then Terminal) and run (just copy and paste the code from the code boxes throughout the HOWTO [in the terminal, this is done by right click anywhere and clicking paste, ctrl+v doesn't work])
Code:
lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation
If your output looks similar to
Code:
0000:05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
or you can see the string BCM4318 in the output, then this should work for you.
Please note that this was really designed to be run on a very fresh install, right after Ubuntu has come up for the first time. It is mostly likely to work then. If you have tried other attempts at making this card work, I have no promises for you, but it only takes two minutes, so it is worth a shot (most people can get it to work, even on a not-so-fresh install).
The point of this HOWTO is to make it as simple as possible (not to educate people - if you want to know how this works, open the script and read it) for people who have just installed Ubuntu for the first time, so I wrote a script and have provided a set of drivers that worked for me. Not all drivers will work with ndiswrapper, so please use the ones I have provided.
The script requires no internet connection after it is downloaded...all required files are on the CD you installed Ubuntu with, and the package manager should recognize this.
Feisty and Gutsy
If you post for help, please post the log file, which can be found on your Desktop after you run the script.
You have two options (I'll try and outline them for you):
- Use the native bcm43xx driver. This driver is open source and included with the kernel. It can not run at any speed higher then 11mbps, is some what flaky, and supports promiscuous mode. Requires user to be somewhat close to the access point. Is a bit easier to install.
- Use ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper is open source, however the driver is not. It can run at 54mbps, is stable, and does not support promiscuous mode. I have had some trouble with it and hidden networks. Supports a large distance from the access point.
If you aren't sure what to use and just want wireless, I suggest ndiswrapper (option 2) See section Dapper and Edgy (and Feisty/Gutsy with ndiswrapper) below.
Dapper and Edgy (and Feisty/Gutsy with ndiswrapper)
- Put the CD that you installed Ubuntu with in the CD drive.
- Download this file to your Desktop (the Firefox default, so if you haven't changed it, that's where it went/will go).
- Open a terminal (click the Applications button, then Accessories, and then Terminal)
- Change the current directory to the desktop (copy and paste the following commands exactly into your terminal by right clicking anywhere on the terminal and clicking paste)
- Extract the compressed file
Code:
tar -xf bcm4318*.tar.gz
- Run the script, which will install ndiswrapper on your system, and set it up.
Code:
sudo ./ndiswrapper_setup
- Use the internet (you will have to open the System menu at the top of the screen, go to Administration, and then click Networking. Configure the interface eth1 or wlan0, and connect to your wifi network)
- If you are an Acer user, you will need to use the acerhk driver.
- If it doesn't work, reboot.
- If that doesn't work, read the troubleshooting section below.
- If you still can't make it work, try reading this post by The Raven, which is so long I can't even fit it in here without doubling the length of the post =D>
Troubleshooting
- If the normal Feisty method fails, try the Edgy/Dapper method. It also has support for Feisty using ndiswrapper.
- Try
Code:
sudo ndiswrapper -a 14e4:4319 bcmwl5
and then
Code:
sudo rmmod bcm43xx
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
- If the light doesn't come on, try:
Code:
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.8 ndiswrapper-utils-1.1 ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-common
- If you are using 64bit Edgy Eft and the 2.6.17-10-generic, make sure you are NOT using the 2.6.17-10-generic kernel as it doesn't work (after running the script, you will be warned if there is a problem). If you need help finding a different kernel, check here.
- If you have issues with Network Manager, make sure that all lines in /etc/network/interfaces that have anything except the word (interface) LO in them are commented out (have a # in front of them) or do not exist (the installation script should have removed them)
- If you are having issues, try running, in this order, one at a time:
Code:
sudo rmmod bcm43xx
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo ifdown eth1
sudo ifup eth1
sudo dhclient
- If you get the error "The NetworkManager applet could not find some required resources. It cannot contine.", run:
Code:
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor/
- If you are using Edgy, try enabling the Universe and Multiverse, then run the script again.
- If, when you turn your computer on, Network Manager asks for your password, and then sits there and twirls, but doesn't connect, and eventually times out, and THEN will connect, try removing wifi radar (or another wireless manager if you have one)
Code:
sudo apt-get remove wifi-radar
OR
Code:
sudo apt-get remove NAME-OF-YOUR-WIFI-MANAGER
- Try reading this post, which is incredibly long and very helpful
- If you want to know how to remove it, either (a) read the script and undo what it does, or (b) post a message here and I will write an undo script for you, or (c) reinstall Dapper.
- Make sure that the card is enabled in the BIOS.
- If you've got a HP dv8000 series that doesn't work quite right, or even if you don't and have run out of ideas, try http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...&postcount=432
Mirrors
Posting for help
If you post for help here, please attach the log file, which will be on your Desktop after you run the script, to your post. Make sure you wrap your log file in
HTML Code:
[CODE]log-file-goes-here[/CODE]
tags, which makes reading the log file much easier.
Updates
EDIT: This was updated on June 20, 2006 to make the size smaller, and include ndiswrapper so that an internet connection is not required. Also, some steps were removed from the installation process.
EDIT: This was updated on June 21, 2006 to add a 64-bit version (thanks redmoth!) and to make a few minor changes.
EDIT: This was updated on June 22, 2006 so that now it supports network manager AND WPA encryption (use WPA supplicant) -thanks magomago!
EDIT: This was updated on June 28, 2006 to add some troubles and answers from the thread, up to page 11. I'm not promising I got everything, but most of it.
EDIT: This was updated on July 7, 2006 to include a GTK enabled C++ application that will automatically install the drivers WITHOUT use of the terminal. If you run the program from a terminal, additional output will be visible. This requires internet access, but looks really pretty :P
EDIT 2: That didn't work out, so I removed it. If you still wanna give it a go (you need gtkmm installed), download the bcm4318.gtk.tar.gz attachment.
EDIT: This was updated on August 7, 2006 to include a new and improved i386 (NOT AMD64) script that will actually work on the LiveCD now, I believe. Thanks iandefor!
EDIT: This was updated September 2, 2006 with some awesome new features. The network-manager-gnome setup should now actually work correctly on a fresh install. The script that includes network-manager-gnome will automagically connect to the internet using your nearest wifi hotspot or an ethernet connection if you're plugged in. The 64bit drivers are also updated and should work right now (I can't say if they do, as I don't have a 64bit Ubuntu to test them on)
EDIT: This was updated September 3, 2006. All versions of the program are now distributed under the GPL.
EDIT: This was updated September 21, 2006 to include a link to another howto for HP dv8000 series laptops.
EDIT: This was updated September 30, 2006 to include directions for Edgy.
EDIT: This was updated October 4, 2006 to include scripts for Edgy.
EDIT: This was updated October 28, 2006 so that there is only one script, which takes care of all arches and versions.
EDIT: This was updated March 13, 2007 to add a link to the Feisty installation information. Sorry, no script yet.
EDIT: This was updated April 20, 2007 to add the script for Feisty support, in case the .deb method fails.
EDIT: This was updated July 2, 2007 with an updated script (thanks LowMemory!)
EDIT: This was updated April 18, 2008 with instructions for Hardy.
Comments and suggestions are appreciated.
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>The point of this HOWTO is to make it as simple as possible....
You achieved your goal.....thank you very much......
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Getting ready to try this. Does it install ndisrapper from the ubuntu install cd or do I need to be connected to the internet? Thanks.
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Ok...I tried this out. Had to connect with my wired NIC and enable the extra repositories to det ndiswrapper. My light didn't light up so I thought it didn't work, but when I rebooted it came on. I get the green bars in the toolbar but I can't laod any websites. Firefox just sits there and says something like locating page or loading page, something like that. I've got WEP setup on my router and properly entered in network properties and everything. I'm not sure why I can't view any sites. Any ideas?
Thank for this script. This is the closest I've come to getting wireless to work on my laptop (compaq v2508wm). I feel like I'm one step away from getting it to work completely.
Any help is appreciated.
**EDIT
I rebooted back into Ubuntu and now it's working. I'm not sure what happened but I'm posting from Ubuntu now thanks to compwiz18. Much appreciated. Only took me about a week to get it working ;).
Now I'm scared to install all the updates it's telling me are available for fear it will screw something up.
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I updated the guide to reflect comments and questions, so now it should be easier to use.
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Thanks so much for the help! I was slightly discouraged when my wireless stopped working after I upgraded Breezy to Dapper, but it's working perfectly now.
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This did the trick with my Dell Inspiron B120 laptop. Thanks for the great info!:-P
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My Presario V2000 works with these drivers... Thanks for your help!
-Brad
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Got mine working but can't see it in network manager. Anyway to use something other than wep? Maybe because it is marked as eth1 instead of wlan in network settings?
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Originally Posted by biggreensupreme
Got mine working but can't see it in network manager. Anyway to use something other than wep? Maybe because it is marked as eth1 instead of wlan in network settings?
I couldn't figure out how to make network manager work. But if someone did with this script, and posts the instructions here, I will add the steps to the script so that it is automatically configured as well.
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Your method looked really promicing, it got me much closer than the others in that ndiskgtk now acknowledges that the hardware is present and it gets an IP address. Unfortunately I still can't get online (or even ping out), even on a wire. If I disable eth1 (formerly wlan0) eth0 suddenly starts working again. Any ideas? If it helps, this wasn't the first thing I tried to make it work.
I appreciate the help in advance.
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Originally Posted by teryret
Your method looked really promicing, it got me much closer than the others in that ndiskgtk now acknowledges that the hardware is present and it gets an IP address. Unfortunately I still can't get online (or even ping out), even on a wire. If I disable eth1 (formerly wlan0) eth0 suddenly starts working again. Any ideas? If it helps, this wasn't the first thing I tried to make it work.
I appreciate the help in advance.
Can you run iwlist eth1 scan in a terminal, and also iwconfig? And post the results please? As for eth0 suddenly working when you disable eth1, try changing the default gateway interface:
http://static.flickr.com/67/17036861...b4619c.jpg?v=0
by selecting eth0...that might fix it.
Hope this helps.
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Good to call me on the default gateway, because sometimes it is the simple stuff, but this time I think it was just me going faster than the computer could apply changes, and it got bogged down. That part is working now.
As for the output of those two commands, they look to the untrained eye to be symptoms of a correctly configured card. The only problem is that it just doesn't like to ping anywhere or look at any website. Since I most recently enabled eth1
I have sent 9 packets according to the connection properties... that seems low given the number of times I submitted http requests to test it.
Code:
matt@matttop:~$ iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:3D:37:DB:7B
ESSID:"KeepOff"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-80 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
matt@matttop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"KeepOff"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:3D:37:DB:7B
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:-83 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
eth0 no wireless extensions.
matt@matttop:~$
Edit: and one other observation, it's reading out at 100% signal quality, regardless of whether I'm a meter from the WAP or my current position of across the house in the basement (where Windows tells me the signal is weak).
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teryret - it looks like you have it configured right...do you have some sort of MAC filtering enabled, or something else? static ips?
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Nope, no security whatsoever, and it does get a valid IP from DHCP, it just doesn't know what to do with it. Plus, the laptop is dual booting with vista and it works flawlessly (same MAC, and usually the same IP too).
Even if there were some sort of filtering going on, wouldn't the counter show more than just 9 packets sent?
Edit: Also, why would iwconfig and iwlist disagree about the link quality?
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Now I'm having the same problem. Connects, gets an IP, but won't download any pages. I can ping the router though, at 192.168.1.1 . Works great in XP, but just won't work in Ubuntu. On the other hand, I have 128 bit encryption...this might be part of the problem. Should probably turn that off before I try to fix this.
If there is someone else out there who knows how to fix this, speak up :D Any help is appreciated.
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Great, I'm conceptually contageous, the mere thought of this type of problem causes it... Quick, to the placebo store, I heard they just found a cure.
In any case, mine is back to not letting me online when I have the wireless card turned on, despite eth0 being plugged in and the default gateway.
I don't think the encryption matters, because I've currently got the box over at a friend's house and his 64 bit WEP is doing the same thing as my unencrypted wlan and your 128 bit one.
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Originally Posted by teryret
Nope, no security whatsoever, and it does get a valid IP from DHCP, it just doesn't know what to do with it. Plus, the laptop is dual booting with vista and it works flawlessly (same MAC, and usually the same IP too).
Even if there were some sort of filtering going on, wouldn't the counter show more than just 9 packets sent?
Edit: Also, why would iwconfig and iwlist disagree about the link quality?
Ok now i am having the exact same problem. ](*,)
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Mine is still working, but one thing I've noticed is sometimes when I boot up it hangs on configuring network devices. It finally turns my wireless light on but when it boots up it won't connect. I have to reboot, then it has connected everytime (knock on wood). I've broken the connection twice now by screwing around with different things trying to learn Linux, but I just run this script again and it fixes it.
If anyone would like me to post any settings I'd be glad to. Just tell me what you'd like to see and I'll do my best. Keep in mind my experience with Linux is about 1 week old.
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Originally Posted by revilot
....but I just run this script again and it fixes it....
What is this "script"? :confused:
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Originally Posted by s2k
Ok now i am having the exact same problem. ](*,)
Muahhahahahaha, now you will all taste my disease! It's like spoiling a movie, you can't unlearn it!
I'm going to try the 2.6.17 kernel thanks to the /. story, I'll let you guys know how it goes.
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Ok i think i have a new finding. when i have a wired connection to my router and im viewing a site such a google images and i disconnect the plug from my laptop i notice that if i click links in the same site the page loads and packets are being sent and recived on the wireless connection. But i cannot go to sites such as yahoo.com, gamefaqs.com.....
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Originally Posted by s2k
What is this "script"? :confused:
Maybe I should have said this "procedure".
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Yeah, I'm way too much of a noob to deal with 288 warnings/errors. 2.6.17 is going to have to remain a mystery for the time being.
Great news, I got it! My steps were fairly simple.
Step 0: Make sure it's plugged in (to the wired lan).
Step 1: Format the hard drive and re-install from the Dapper 6.06 disk.
Step 2: Run the script from the tarball per your instructions in the first post
Step 3: Enable eth1 in the Networking admin tool.
Step 4: sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
Step 5: Reboot.
Edit:
Step 6: Install automatix and begin running it.
Step 7: Notice that it gets stuck mid download (side effect of a fickle signal and an installer that doesn't retry anything) and attempt to jump start it by pressing the "enable/disable wlan" button on the keyboard twice. Noting that the software connection strength meter dropped to zero when I pressed it the first time then never came back.
Step 8: Disable then re-enable eth1 in the Network admin tool, noting that the signal strength meter returned to it's normal (albiet probably incorrect) 100%. Also noting that it won't surf the internet... or ping out... but it did have a good IP and a signal.
Step 9: Cry, then simultaneously pray and reboot.
Step 10: Wonder why gnome locks on bootup.
Step 11: GOTO step 0.
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Originally Posted by teryret
Yeah, I'm way too much of a noob to deal with 288 warnings/errors. 2.6.17 is going to have to remain a mystery for the time being.
Great news, I got it! My steps were fairly simple.
Step 0: Make sure it's plugged in (to the wired lan).
Step 1: Format the hard drive and re-install from the Dapper 6.06 disk.
Step 2: Run the script from the tarball per your instructions in the first post
Step 3: Enable eth1 in the Networking admin tool.
Step 4: sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
Step 5: Reboot.
Edit:
Step 6: Install automatix and begin running it.
Step 7: Notice that it gets stuck mid download (side effect of a fickle signal and an installer that doesn't retry anything) and attempt to jump start it by pressing the "enable/disable wlan" button on the keyboard twice. Noting that the software connection strength meter dropped to zero when I pressed it the first time then never came back.
Step 8: Disable then re-enable eth1 in the Network admin tool, noting that the signal strength meter returned to it's normal (albiet probably incorrect) 100%. Also noting that it won't surf the internet... or ping out... but it did have a good IP and a signal.
Step 9: Cry, then simultaneously pray and reboot.
Step 10: Wonder why gnome locks on bootup.
Step 11: GOTO step 0.
THANK YOU!!!111
im not sure exactly what i just did but it seemed to have worked. Im using automatix right now over my wireless connection...=D> .....but i hope to god this works when i restart:confused:
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Edit: Didn't see the third page, some of this is repeated.
Edit 2: You can edit /etc/modules and add ndiswrapper to the bottom...I will update the script to do that automatically. This fixed a few problems, such as running the dumb thing at every boot.
I WIN :D
Ok, so it appears that there was an update maybe? that everyone downloaded that broke it. Anyways, running dhclient fixed it for me :D
I did, in this order, all as superuser
Code:
modprobe ndiswrapper
[push wifi button on computer - it didn't light up, pushing it fixed it]
ifdown eth1 [where eth1 is the network interface]
ifup eth1
dhclient
If your ISP gave you DNS servers you have to use, add them in the network manager under the DNS tab.
Otherwise, it should work :D
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Thanks, it works.
I had to run dos2unix on the ndiswrapper_setup script file for some reason. Not sure if anybody else had to do that. I also had to execute
to stop the wired lan port since it was set as the default gateway. After that it seems to work fine.
Not why the wl_apsta.o nor bcmwl5.sys don't don't work directly. I'm going to try to keep working with that too to see if I can get it to work. I think there actually included in the 2.6.17 kernel.
The Network Manager Applet doesn't seem to work now. Possibly because the wireless lan is now identified as wlan0 instead of eth1. I can live with that for now.
Has there been any discussion on somehow making netowrking automaticlly select the best lan for the gateway?
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This works great.. been using it for about a week with no problems.. but you could make it even easier by including ndis with the script ;)
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That would be nice...but there is a ~800kb size limit on files, and the drivers are rather large - about 75% of that. Maybe I'll try later...
EDIT: It is updated. Have fun.
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OK, I updated the script. I removed extra driver files that you don't need, added ndiswrapper to the tarball so you don't need an internet connection to install, had the script automatically add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules (this should load it at startup, fixes a couple problems), AND I updated the steps to make it easier to install :D
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I followed the instructions after downloading the newest tarball (jun 20,2006) for a Compaq v2000 with the BCM4318 wireless chipset. Keep in mind that this laptop does have an AMD Turion64 processor, though I do not know if this will make a difference. However, after running the script, the wireless light did not light up...so I rebooted, but it did not help. I verified that after the reboot the ndiswrapper was loaded as a module using
Code:
modprobe -l |grep ndiswrapper
also i verified that that ndiswrapper loaded a driver using
the output of which was
Code:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
after the reboot, the wlan0 interface (which was previously there) does not show up in the Network Interface Manager, and only eth0 (the wired interface) remains. Also, the iwconfig command does not indicate any interfaces that have any wireless extensions, nor does it show up in ifconfig.
Im a bit lost...Any ideas as to what to try next? I am going to attempt to look at the windows installation that is on the laptop, then see if I can get a copy of the files it is using as a driver for the chipset, then hopefully, get ndiswrapper to install those...
Any suggestions extremely welcome!
thanks,
-rob
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I have a v2000 too...it worked for me. Are you using the 64bit version of Ubuntu? Oh yeah...also, pushing the button worked for me..it lit up and then everything was good.
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your script worked flawlessly for one reboot, now im having trouble.
Quote:
Originally Posted by redmoth
after the reboot, the wlan0 interface (which was previously there) does not show up, and only eth0 (the wired interface) remains. Also, the iwconfig command does not indicate any interfaces that have any wireless extensions, nor does it show up in ifconfig.
-rob
i may have the same problem (but im a slight newbie, so i may be confusing errors). my eth1 interface does not show up under my gnome-netstatus-applet, and nm-applet only shows my wired network. network settings does show eth1, and it being active; and iwconfig also shows eth1 as present. so probably a different error. however, my network is wpa encrypted, so ill just throw that in the mix too. suggestions?
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Also try sudo rmmod bcm43xx maybe?
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i have a compaq v2000 running ubuntu amd64...
here's a couple concerns i have:
a) does this work for amd64 installs of ubuntu?
b) when i run ndiswrapper, it states that bcmxx is not found in /proc/modules, how do i fix that?exit
c)i get a lot of line xx: ndiswrapper: command not found errors
thanks for your help
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Originally Posted by zany
i have a compaq v2000 running ubuntu amd64...
here's a couple concerns i have:
a) does this work for amd64 installs of ubuntu?
b) when i run ndiswrapper, it states that bcmxx is not found in /proc/modules, how do i fix that?exit
c)i get a lot of line xx: ndiswrapper: command not found errors
thanks for your help
a - not sure, i have 32 bit on a 64 bit processor
b & c - try running sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper before running the script, not sure about those 2
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Originally Posted by compwiz18
Also try sudo rmmod bcm43xx maybe?
Quote:
Originally Posted by zany
b) when i run ndiswrapper, it states that bcmxx is not found in /proc/modules, how do i fix that?
bcm43xx does not exist in /proc/modules. (just trying to add data, my experiences since i cant really help in any other way.)
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okay! I thought about it for just a second and looked at the output of
and saw that up near the top when ndiswrapper is loaded that it gave an error noting that the driver is not a 64 bit driver. So I googled for it, and found a Suse post regarding a similar situation for another user for 64bit Suse. Some guy with the awesome nic GenericHuman pointed towards the 64bit drivers for the bcm4318 chipset at linuxant here:
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php
what i ended up doing (after reading the script in the original attachment of this thread, and discovering that it removes any previous installations of the driver) was just repackaged the 64 bit drivers in the tarball, and reran the script according to the instructions in the original post of this thread...
needless to say I am proudly using the laptop to post this message now.
I will attach the tarball that I have recreated TO BE USED ONLY FOR 64 BIT INSTALLS WITH THE BCM4318 CHIPSET!
man, many thanks to compwiz18 for the superbly written script, and all the real groundwork!! thank you, thank you!!
-rob
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thanks guys..
i'm going to keep cracking at this
it says that bcmwl5: driver present, hardware present but won't show up in network manager in ubuntu
also says
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 repeated several times..
looks like the driver got installed though,
not sure what the next step is...
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zany, if you are using ubuntu64, then you want to use the attachment that i posted a few minutes ago. the drivers that are bundled in the attachment compwiz18 uploaded are 32bit only drivers and you will find that the output of dmesg will show you that it does not like that...
first, unload the driver that you installed with compwiz18's script by typing:
Code:
ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
then use the instructions from compwiz18 with the attachment that i uploaded a few minutes ago...i _think_ that will work for you
-rob
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Just want to say thanks for the great script!
I would also like to add that I spent a lot of the day messing with the bc43xx driver and then ndiswrapper. And I now realize that one of the main problems was a user headspace error. In System-.Administration->Networking->Wireless Connection->Properties, the essid comes up blank by default. You have to click the drop down and select the essid and *then* activate.
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I have a Dell Latitude D610 with a Dell 1370 wireless card, which is based on the Broadcom 4318 chipset. I believe I have enabled the wireless card. However, my network runs with WPA2 encryption, but it seems that this driver only supports WEP, which is not good enough for me. How do I go about enabling at least WPA, ideally WPA2, in Ubuntu 6.06?
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Dell latitude 110L worked flawlessly, just ran the script and rebooted came back up no problems connected right up to my WAP..
:-({|= =D> =D> =D> =D>
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redmoth,
thanks for your help. i downloaded the x64 driver but it says invalid driver. Still doesn't list the device in network devices. any ideas? i might re-install ubuntu amd64 if i get the chance...but any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
zany.
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I'm gonna take the 64-bit tarball and stick it in my post so that people don't have to read the thread.
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I Have HP zv 6000 and the 4318 chip. I tried these directions and cannot get my wireless to work, it ndiswrapper it and driver loaded hardware present, iwconfig does not see it is listed as eth0 at times.
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I need to thank you so much! I've had my Compaq Presario for three weeks and couldn't get my wireless to work. It's been driving me insane (and turning back to XP was NOT an option ^_~) Thanks again for taking the time to help out all us unfortunates with the Broadcom 4318.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by airrob
I have a Dell Latitude D610 with a Dell 1370 wireless card, which is based on the Broadcom 4318 chipset. I believe I have enabled the wireless card. However, my network runs with WPA2 encryption, but it seems that this driver only supports WEP, which is not good enough for me. How do I go about enabling at least WPA, ideally WPA2, in Ubuntu 6.06?
check out the dapper wiki
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WPAHowTo
tho wireless is not currently working on my laptop, it did for a day, and i got it working by following the directions on that wiki (wpa_supplicant, etc).
goodluck!
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i tried running your script again, and this time copied down the output displayed in my terminal:
Code:
./ndiswrapper_setup
Installing ndiswrapper...
(Reading database ... 108580 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
Removing default driver...
ERROR: Module bcmxx does not exist in /proc/modules
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
oem3 invalid driver!
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...
Installation completed.
Please check the wifi light on your computer.
If it is on, installation was successful.
If it is not, reboot. If it is still not, try pressing the wifi button.
If it doesn't work, please post on the forums for help.
the light did not turn on right away, but after running the script, by pressing the button it would turn on, and now that ive rebooted, it is on.
Code:
willi@willi-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.
willi@willi-laptop:~$
Code:
willi@willi-laptop:~$ iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 No scan results
Code:
willi@willi-laptop:~$ sudo su
root@willi-laptop:/home/willi# modprobe ndiswrapper
root@willi-laptop:/home/willi# ifdown 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:a5:7a:4b:fc
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:7a:4b:fc
Sending on Socket/fallback
root@willi-laptop:/home/willi# ifup 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:a5:7a:4b:fc
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:7a:4b:fc
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //DSM-G600/HDD_a,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
root@willi-laptop:/home/willi# dhclient
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:a5:7a:4b:fc
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:7a:4b:fc
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b0:fb:28:61
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b0:fb:28:61
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.102 -- renewal in 292622 seconds.
root@willi-laptop:/home/willi#
Code:
willi@willi-laptop:~$ modprobe -l | grep ndiswrapper
/lib/modules/2.6.15-25-386/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
willi@willi-laptop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
oem3 invalid driver!
willi@willi-laptop:~$
Code:
willi@willi-laptop:~$ sudo rmmod bcm43xx
ERROR: Module bcm43xx does not exist in /proc/modules
willi@willi-laptop:~$
System->Admin->Networking shows eth1 as active.
nm-applet shows only my wired network.
gnome-netstatus-applet shows only eth0 (wired) and lo connections.
my home network is a wpa-personal, but it was configured correctly with wpa_supplicant, etc. as it worked for a day before. im also in range of my neighbors network, which is not encrypted.
suggestions?
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This worked great! If this was ebay id leave A++++++++++++ in the feedback comment. Would it be possible to configure WPA support into the script? Since I got the card working im messing with WPA_supplicant now to fully secure the network.
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Try removing the oem driver that ndiswrapper shows she you run by running
Code:
ndiswrapper -e oem3
Hope that helps.
Also, if someone would be willing to give me working directions for wpa encryption, I'll put that into the script. It seems to be a highly requested feature.
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Just update GNOME Network Manager, as described here - http://en.magenson.de/2006/06/11/ubu...pted-wireless/
However, while that makes the little network icon in the top right work, System -> Administration -> Network still seems not to work. Interesting.
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Hi guys I'm wondering if you can give me a hand. i have an Acer Aspire 3624WXMi and I have the 4318 broadcom card. I've tried several guides but can't seem to get it installed.
After reading all the variety of guides, I figured hat NDIS wrapper was my best chance at getting this setup. i tried a few of them but none of them seem to be working. I got my wireless blinking...but gnome nework manager doesn't see anything. In fact, left clicking says "no network devices found"...BUT i'm using my hardwired ethernet to type this (From the same laptop) so atleast that should appear.
Here are some read outs:
amarry@amarry-laptop:~$ modprobe -l |grep ndiswrapper
/lib/modules/2.6.15-25-386/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
amarry@amarry-laptop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
oem3 driver present, hardware present
Can anyone give me a hand? My wireless card light IS blinking...but I can't connect. I try to pick the right ESSID and then I insert my WPA key into the WEP key area....but I can't get anythng to work
Anything is appreciated. thanks!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by magomago
Hi guys I'm wondering if you can give me a hand. i have an Acer Aspire 3624WXMi and I have the 4318 broadcom card. I've tried several guides but can't seem to get it installed.
After reading all the variety of guides, I figured hat NDIS wrapper was my best chance at getting this setup. i tried a few of them but none of them seem to be working. I got my wireless blinking...but gnome nework manager doesn't see anything. In fact, left clicking says "no network devices found"...BUT i'm using my hardwired ethernet to type this (From the same laptop) so atleast that should appear.
Here are some read outs:
amarry@amarry-laptop:~$ modprobe -l |grep ndiswrapper
/lib/modules/2.6.15-25-386/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
amarry@amarry-laptop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
oem3 driver present, hardware present
Can anyone give me a hand? My wireless card light IS blinking...but I can't connect. I try to pick the right ESSID and then I insert my WPA key into the WEP key area....but I can't get anythng to work
Anything is appreciated. thanks!
I could be wrong because I don't use WPA, but I think you have to use a different program to use WPA encryption, the key doesn't go in the WEP key field.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by compwiz18
I could be wrong because I don't use WPA, but I think you have to use a different program to use WPA encryption, the key doesn't go in the WEP key field.
Thats correct, you have to use wpa_supplicant. Ive tried the steps here
http://en.magenson.de/2006/06/11/ubu...pted-wireless/
but it didnt work for me.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by compwiz18
Try removing the oem driver that ndiswrapper shows she you run
by running
Code:
ndiswrapper -e oem3
Hope that helps.
Also, if someone would be willing to give me working directions for wpa encryption, I'll put that into the script. It seems to be a highly requested feature.
Quote:
Originally Posted by airrob
thank you very much. wireless is working great now.
very nice job compwiz.
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I had my wireless working before using other methods, but both times it stopped working. I just ran your script, and my wireless works again.
I had to do two things - 1), set wlan0 as the default in my system->administration->networking, and 2) download and use Wireless Assistant, since the applet in the top panel is pretty useless.
Thanks so much!
-Mark
marksheely@gmail.com
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hey guys. I run the tar file. Everything installed fine. I rebooted my laptop and I get eth1 idle. nothing is happening. can someone help me out?
I have a Dell Insprion | B130. There is no light for me to see if the wireless card is on.
mshen10@hacker-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.
mshen10@hacker-laptop:~$ iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:09:5B: DF:A1:F6
ESSID:"HanShih"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-46 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key: on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
i also installed network manager, rebooted and i get no network connection for the network manager.
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Compiz1, How do I get that thing to appear? Just to be same i removed t oem3 driver and just left the bcmwl5 (spelling?) driver. I get my blinking light as always, but for some reason network manager only sees the wired connection (wierd...before it used to see nothing). So because I don't see the wireless networks the whole wpa thing is useless to me. But if I go into networking and configure eth1 I can see my network.
Any idea on what gives? Im thinking of starting a clean slate and directly using your instructions that it fixes it..
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hey magomago I get the samething that you get.
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mshen10, i'll reboot rightn ow (luckily this is a new pc so the only thing i have setup is compiz but that was straighforeward) and see if that fixes it...i'm worried some other guides i tried earlier fubared this one
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ya. no good. Im just gonna wait for compiz to reply
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mshen10
ya. no good. Im just gonna wait for compiz to reply
I figured it out!!! I'm posting right now with it...and although I rebooted I don't think it is needed at all and probably beter for those who have their pcs already loaded...give me about 15 minute and i'll get it up
the funny part is that its just syntax errors:mrgreen:
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ahh ok. I hope it works for me.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mshen10
ahh ok. I hope it works for me.
Try running sudo modprobe ndiswrapper...might fix it. If not, wait for a reply from the other person having this problem.
Hope that helps.
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Note: I'm going try to make this as similar to the original post as possible so it is more seamless. This method will allow you to use your 4318 broadcom chip with WPA network
The first few parts are ripped right from the original post, and all credit goes to compwiz18 who is a whiz :) I'm just an engineer that applied some logic to figure why a few files were empty.
That and by making it exactly the same, he can easily integrate the WPA aspect of it
http://
This HOWTO is for people who have a Broadcom 4318 Wifi card in their laptop. This card can sometimes be a bit difficult to setup, so I have provided a working method (for me, anyway). This should also fix problems that cause the card to stop working when you upgrade from Breezy to Dapper.
There is another thread for people who have other Broadcom wifi cards, which can be found here.
To check if you have a Broadcom 4318 Card, open up the terminal (click the Applications button, then Accessories, and then Terminal) and run (just copy and paste the code from the code boxes throughout the HOWTO [in the terminal, this is done by right click anywhere and clicking paste, ctrl+v doesn't work])
Code:
lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation
If your output looks similar to:
Code:
0000:05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
or you can see the string BCM4318 in the output, then this should work for you.
The point of this HOWTO is to make it as simple as possible (not to educate people - if you want to know how this works, open the script and read it) for people who have just installed Ubuntu for the first time, so I wrote a script and have provided a set of drivers that worked for me. It is important to note that not all drivers will work as expected, so please use the ones I have posted. If you have any problems, please feel free to post them, and help will be given.
This script requires no internet connection after it is downloaded.
Process
- http://www.ubuntuforums.org/attachme...4&d=1150897000Download this item
- Open a terminal (click the Applications button, then Accessories, and then Terminal)
- #
# Change the current directory to the desktop (copy and paste the following commands into your terminal [to paste in the terminal, right click and click paste, ctrl+v doesn't work] my edit: actual cntl+shift+v does ;))
- Extract the Compressed File
Code:
tar -xf bcm4318.tar.gz
- Run the script, which will install ndiswrapper on your system, and set it up.
Code:
sudo ./ndiswrapper_setup
- Reboot the computer. Now your wireless light SHOULD be on :)
- Lets get the network manager installed!
Code:
sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
- Now let us edit the CORRECT file
Code:
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
in this area comment out (put a '#' in front of each line) anything that doesn't have 'lo' in it. For example this is what my interfaces file looks like after commenting
Code:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
#auto eth0
#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
- Restart....now the network manager SHOULD have the other networks up :D Connect to your network and insert your WPA key...YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
Note: Thanks a lot to compwiz18 for providing the entire first part. The second part comes entirely from http://en.magenson.de/2006/06/11/ubu...pted-wireless/ however they are wrong in the file to edit...there is no "networks" folder...it must be the network folder. checking the directory by doing ls /etc shows this. All I did was put he two together
IF you have tried many guides, just make sure that only the driver we want is installed
do
you SHOULD get just
Code:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
if you get anything else like "oem3" remove it by doing
Code:
sudo ndiswrapper -e NAME_OF_DRIVER
You may want to restart.
By the way I have no idea if all those restarts are necessary...I'm guessing the first restart isn't necessary, but I put it there because that is how I ended up doing it.
Thanks all, and I hope this helps you guys!
eidt:
compwiz18 feel free to integrate this guide straight up into the original...as i wrote it to make integration easier. Also, insert the caveat that if they have tried many methods they need to remove any other rogue drivers.
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Oki doki, will do :D Thanks for writing that.
EDIT: AWESOME!!! Didn't realize that it used network-manager till I tried it :D I'd been wanting to do that for a while. Anyway did that, get the new packages from the first post for automatic setup.
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thanks. isn't it gedit? I did add the # in. I restarted and my network manager now lets me add wireless network. but how do i connect?
oh ya, when i go into my network settings it says all my network connection is not configure.
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You can click on the network name, and the program will try to connect. Enter your key and start praying it works (it doesn't always for me :P)
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lol i did. no good. It could be that my WEP is interfering
ok it's no good :(. it's not working for me.
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you have a wep setup AND a wpa setup? Now i'm confused....
Your router is setup as WPA and has a key, right?
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it's WEP the encryption is 64 bit. I blieve it's hex
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- thank you very much for posting this HOWTO... it has saved me a LOT of time researching a 32-bit wifi driver for my HP L2000 (Lance Armstrong notebook)...
- i have KANOTIX64 running on the laptop with wifi working via the 64-bit Broadcom 4318 driver required by the laptop, but wanted to test the notebook with a 32-bit USB thumbdrive distro (which requires, obviously, a 32-bit driver)...
- btw, i used this HOWTO's approach and driver with Slax 5.1.6, ndiswrapper 1.15, kernel 2.6.16...
- kudos to the author!
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[*]Restart....now the network manager SHOULD have the other networks up :D Connect to your network and insert your WPA key...YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
I love how often 'should' is synonymous with 'won\'t'. For some reason without modifying the /etc/network/interfaces tab (ie leaving them all uncommented) NetworkManager is enabled to manage the wired lan, and no combination of commenting lines in that config file will enable it to talk to the wireless lan. Of course, some combinations of comments will prevent it from managing the wired lan, but that's not quite the same.
Any idea where I should start on this?