How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

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Originally Posted by smylie

my god man. i've been using linux since 1997 and I never knew you could hunt thru menuconfig like that! i hate to think how many hours of hunting round that would have saved me =)

i do have one more question . . . how did you find out what the dependancies on making it appear are?

thanks heaps =)

smylie

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They are them. Thanks to the bcm team!
downloading vista public beta

Thanks, crag277!!
Following the steps on your ho to, it made the broadcom wireless card on my Acer Aspire 3003 works flawlessly!
Nut i have a minor correction to make on your how to. Where it says

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Originally Posted by crag277

Type "sudo gedit etc/modprobe.d/blacklist"

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Should say "sudo gedir /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
A newbie like me may get troubles with this ;)

why is everyone reporting using NDIS Wrapper? i really hope all these people have atleast tried my guide first ](*,)
It might be better to take NDIS questions to a thread related to their use?

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Originally Posted by nickm

why is everyone reporting using NDIS Wrapper? i really hope all these people have atleast tried my guide first ](*,)
It might be better to take NDIS questions to a thread related to their use?

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They probably tried using the bcm43xx driver but failed and the title is labled "How to: Broadcom Wireless Cards". Maybe you should include ndiswrapper instructions as an alternative, I personally found that it's more stable, as easy to install and performs better than bcm43xx driver.

Thanks for the great how to! I had thought at first it had not functioned however I did not read through the how to properly and built my own problems. ](*,) I went from a fresh install and followed the how to line line for line (same broadcom device). Now I am up on wireless on my Compaq Pressario 2585US! Thanks a lot! =D> One question, under breezy, I was able to get 802.11g support with the same device using ndiswrapper however I noted that my wireless under 6.0.6 is only 802.11b. Is this due to the way the driver functions under dapper drake? Or is it some failure that I made? :confused:

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Originally Posted by Slicedbread

They probably tried using the bcm43xx driver but failed and the title is labled "How to: Broadcom Wireless Cards". Maybe you should include ndiswrapper instructions as an alternative, I personally found that it's more stable, as easy to install and performs better than bcm43xx driver.

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Ah Right, well its never worked for me so i cant provide instructions for how to get it working..

great topic, thanks to the author.

for BCM4318 users (same here, on my inspiron 600m): look like the post by Slicedbread is the best for us.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...2&postcount=55

here is what I did
installed bcmxx
downloaded bcmwl5 from Slisedbread's link in above post
blacklisted ndiswrapper
rebooted
sudo bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware bcmwl5.sys (got same errors here as other BCM4318 users, don't worry)
rebooted

and cheers, signal is there

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Originally Posted by big_gie

I'm having trouble using NetworkManager. It works ok with cable, but wireless is a no-go.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 with a Broadcom 4306 wifi card using bcm43xx.

Attached is the log of "NetworkManager --no-daemon"

It get stock to line 141 for 60 seconds it seems, then time out with "Activation (eth1/wireless): association took too long (>60s), failing activation."

Anyone have an idea???

Thanx

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Anyone? ](*,)

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Originally Posted by nickm

Ah Right, well its never worked for me so i cant provide instructions for how to get it working..

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For me ndiswrapper segfaults. Oh well...

Upgraded from Breezy, tried all day yesterday to get this to work following the guide. Have an Compaq nx9010 with a Broadcom 4303. Blacklisted ndiswrapper, deleted old drivers, used the cutter, modprobed, etc. To no avail, could see network, but dhcp failed to get an ip. This morning, I blacklisted bcm43xx and unblacklisted ndiswrapper. Rebooted. It worked. Sorry. I really wanted this to work for me as I'd rather use a native linux driver, but I don't have time to keep trying to get it to work.

DW