According to the log file, your wireless card is fully operational. You may want to try a different network manager, such as wicd (in my sig) or wifi-radar.
disclamer: wicd is my project ;)
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I am completely new to Ubuntu and the whole Linux experience,but this thread has really helped. I was a little discouraged and worried when I installed Ubuntu on my Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop and the wireless didn't work... but it's all working now. (All that is left for me to do is find a way to get the bluetooth mouse to work...)
Hey guys. I used this method and it worked fine for me. However, I couldn't always connect to all the networks. At home, it worked fine connecting to a linksys G router. However, after the recent update of a crap load of packages via synaptic, I cant connect at home anymore. It just times out like other networks. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to begin troubleshooting or tracking down which package updates might have disturbed my otherwise functional 4318 via ndiswrapper in Feisty? I finally tweaked the crap out of my install and dont want to reinstall. Thanks.
I tried ths method, and I can see my signal strength and also the other wifi networks around me, but i cant seem to get an ip from dhcp.
when i manually assign static, I still cant ping with wpa_gui, i cant ping out, still cant get to internet.
Thnx Compwiz, I figured it out at 5am last night. Oddly enough it connected once I enabled WEP encryption. I don't know why, but i think i had made it too easy for the manager to connect and it was looking for some sort of encryption. SO...i switched over to wifi-radar and all is well now! It works like a charm and i don't have to retype my WEP code every time i boot.
For anyone who is still have having trouble w/ feisty on an AMD64, there are a few good posts on pg 118 of this thread.
I love you guy, your tutorial worked! It was so easy and fast, thank you very much. ;)
Finally! Thank you very kindly. Four versions of Ubuntu and my wireless finally works!
I am running a desktop with a 64-bit AMD motherboard and a Broadcom 4318 wireless card. I am trying to connect to a wireless network with WPA-encryption. After following some other tutorials I got my wireless card working properly, but the network connection would drop out intermittently.
I followed this tutorial hoping to switch to "ndiswrapper", which is apparently more stable. However, after following this tutorial, I am unable to connect to the internet at all, even using a wired connection.
After the failure, I followed some of the Troubleshooting tips at the beginning of this thread. Doing a sudo ndiswrapper -a 14e4:4319 bcmwl5 resulted in Error: no versions of ndiswrapper found!, which seemed unusual. All of the lines in /etc/network/interfaces were uncommented, and none of them had the word "interface" in them.
I've attached the output from the script. Any input as to the source of this problem or how i could fix it would be greatly appreciated. If nothing else, it would be nice if i could get my wired connection working again, so i could at least download drivers to fix the wireless issue later. Thanks.
Code:Log of echo Script version: 0.1.2
Sat Jun 2 12:01:28 2007
Script version: 0.1.2
Sat Jun 2 12:01:28 2007
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Log of lspci
Sat Jun 2 12:01:28 2007
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a4)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f3)
00:10.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:11.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:13.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7900 GT (rev a1)
04:08.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
04:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
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Log of echo /etc/issue MD5 sum: 3087e29b00a0ad846c075b46e50a0342
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
/etc/issue MD5 sum: 3087e29b00a0ad846c075b46e50a0342
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
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Log of cat /etc/issue
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
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Log of ps -e
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:01 init
2 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
3 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
4 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0
5 ? 00:00:00 migration/1
6 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/1
7 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/1
8 ? 00:00:02 events/0
9 ? 00:00:01 events/1
10 ? 00:00:00 khelper
11 ? 00:00:00 kthread
34 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
35 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/1
36 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
37 ? 00:00:00 kacpi_notify
160 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
194 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
195 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
196 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
197 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
198 ? 00:00:00 aio/1
2063 ? 00:00:00 ksuspend_usbd
2065 ? 00:00:00 khubd
2150 ? 00:00:00 khpsbpkt
2202 ? 00:00:00 ata/0
2203 ? 00:00:00 ata/1
2204 ? 00:00:00 ata_aux
2252 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
2253 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
2254 ? 00:00:00 knodemgrd_0
2298 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
2299 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_3
2492 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
2687 ? 00:00:00 udevd
3748 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
4366 ? 00:00:00 wpa_supplicant
4522 tty4 00:00:00 getty
4523 tty5 00:00:00 getty
4525 tty2 00:00:00 getty
4528 tty3 00:00:00 getty
4529 tty1 00:00:00 getty
4530 tty6 00:00:00 getty
4789 ? 00:00:00 acpid
4890 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
4945 ? 00:00:00 dd
4947 ? 00:00:00 klogd
4968 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
4984 ? 00:00:02 hald
4985 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
4991 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
4992 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-cpuf
5003 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
5006 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
5015 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
5018 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
5027 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
5047 ? 00:00:00 dhcdbd
5062 ? 00:00:02 NetworkManager
5081 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
5082 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
5106 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManagerD
5119 ? 00:00:00 system-tools-ba
5120 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
5185 ? 00:00:00 gdm
5186 ? 00:00:00 gdm
5189 tty7 00:00:16 Xorg
5260 ? 00:00:00 hpiod
5263 ? 00:00:00 python
5316 ? 00:00:00 kondemand/0
5317 ? 00:00:00 kondemand/1
5351 ? 00:00:00 hcid
5371 ? 00:00:00 krfcommd
5406 ? 00:00:00 atd
5420 ? 00:00:00 cron
5520 ? 00:00:00 x-session-manag
5558 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
5561 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
5562 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
5564 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
5567 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
5569 ? 00:00:00 gnome-settings-
5582 ? 00:00:00 sh
5583 ? 00:00:00 esd
5587 ? 00:00:05 metacity
5592 ? 00:00:02 gnome-panel
5596 ? 00:00:01 nautilus
5599 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati
5601 ? 00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo
5602 ? 00:00:00 gnome-volume-ma
5617 ? 00:00:00 update-notifier
5619 ? 00:00:00 evolution-alarm
5625 ? 00:00:00 nm-applet
5626 ? 00:00:00 gnome-cups-icon
5627 ? 00:00:00 gnome-power-man
5637 ? 00:00:00 evolution-excha
5650 ? 00:00:00 evolution-data-
5654 ? 00:00:00 trashapplet
5666 ? 00:00:00 mapping-daemon
5702 ? 00:00:00 mixer_applet2
5749 ? 00:00:00 avahi-autoipd
5750 ? 00:00:00 avahi-autoipd
5775 ? 00:00:00 avahi-autoipd
5776 ? 00:00:00 avahi-autoipd
5783 ? 00:00:00 dhclient3
5838 ? 00:00:00 notification-da
5862 ? 00:00:01 gnome-screensav
5865 ? 00:00:00 dhclient3
5919 ? 00:00:01 gedit
6031 ? 00:00:26 firefox-bin
6428 ? 00:00:00 wpa_supplicant
6448 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
6522 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal
6525 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
6526 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
6614 ? 00:00:01 gksu
6615 ? 00:00:01 network-admin
6619 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
6649 ? 00:00:00 sh
6650 ? 00:00:00 esd
6746 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
6968 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal
6970 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
6971 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
7328 pts/1 00:00:00 sh
7352 pts/1 00:00:00 logsave
7353 pts/1 00:00:00 ps
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
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Log of echo Feisty release detected.
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
Feisty release detected.
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
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Log of rmmod ndiswrapper
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
ERROR: Module ndiswrapper does not exist in /proc/modules
rmmod died with exit status 1
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
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Log of rmmod bcm43xx
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
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Log of echo Feisty
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
Feisty
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
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Log of apt-get --assume-yes install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
Sat Jun 2 12:01:29 2007
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
ndiswrapper-common is already the newest version.
Suggested packages:
ndiswrapper-source
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 32.7kB of archives.
After unpacking 127kB of additional disk space will be used.
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 1.38-1ubuntu1
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.38-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
apt-get died with exit status 100
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
Error: no versions of ndiswrapper found!
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5a
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
Error: no versions of ndiswrapper found!
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -l
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
Error: no versions of ndiswrapper found!
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
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Log of echo You appear to have a 64bit system...installing the 64bit drivers...
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
You appear to have a 64bit system...installing the 64bit drivers...
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
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Log of tar -xf drivers-64.tar.gz
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
Error: no versions of ndiswrapper found!
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
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Log of modprobe ndiswrapper
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
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Log of iwconfig
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
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Log of ifconfig
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:15:0E:1F
UP BROADCAST 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:21
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:15:00:73
UP BROADCAST 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:19
eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:15:0E:1F
inet addr:169.254.1.140 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:21
eth1:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:15:00:73
inet addr:169.254.2.248 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:19
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:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5294 (5.1 KiB) TX bytes:5294 (5.1 KiB)
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
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Log of iwlist scan
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Sat Jun 2 12:03:22 2007
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Hey guys- First off I just want to say I'm a brand new Ubuntu user, and I want to thank the community for all the helpful knowledge contained on this forum.
I just installed a dual boot WinXP/Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) about a week ago on my HP Pavilion dv5030 laptop. Since then, I had been trying to configure my broadcom 4318 wireless card. I would like to report with great overbearing joy I am finally writing this on my couch, away from the wireless router without the constriction of a LAN cable!
I must let you all know at this point that I am running a 64-bit install of Feisty
I would like to share my efforts and processes that allowed me to come to my final, fully functional wireless (WPA) connection.
First, I went and picked up a copy of Beginning Ubuntu Linux by Keir Thomas. This provided some helpful information, and continues to do so. The only thing is that the book was written for 6.10 which I believe is Edgy? Everything is still quite similar in Feisty as I have come to find.
After opening a terminal, run the command:
My wireless card was recognized asCode:lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation
Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
So it was recognized, but the native drivers were obviously not working because there was no success of connecting to my Linksys WRT54G router.
With the advice in Keir Thomas' book I began the process by identifying the wireless network hardware and sourcing drivers. That can be accomplished by going to System>Preferences>Hardware Information.
Scroll down to "WLAN Interface" In the right panel click the "Advanced" tab and look for the entry net physical_device It should show something to the effect of:
strlist /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4318
The "14e4_4318" is important because in the driver .inf file (when opened with a text editor) should correspond to your version of Broadcom card, which in this case is 14e4_4318.
Onwards to the process of blacklisting the existing native drivers. This is accomplished by opening a terminal and issuing the following commands:
This will open up the blacklist config file. At the bottom I added the following:Code:gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Save this file.Code:blacklist bcm43xx
After a reboot, the wireless device is no longer recognized in the network manager.
Onto installing ndiswrapper so you can install the WinXP drivers for the Broadcom device. This is where things got a little hairy for myself because: 1. I'm new to Linux, and 2. I didn't know that nidswrapper did not come installed on Feisty, which I guess it doesn't normally.
So, after connecting to my wired network (which connects to the internet just fine, as it should for almost everyone) I ran Synaptics Package manager, and installed:
ndiswrapper-common
ndiswrapper-source
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
I would also recommend running update manager at this time as well, and get all necessary updates to your system if it is a fresh install. After all this updating, reboot.
Now to download the necessary drivers to make the Broadcom device not only be recognized, but function as well.
After much trial and error in installing drivers, I came upon this guide that pointed me to the correct driver that works. You can download it here: ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/note...bit/80211g.zip
Please keep in mind this is the 64-bit driver
Now for the extraction and installation of the 4318 driver
After you have downloaded the .zip file, Select open with Archive Manager. At this point you should create a folder on the desktop titled "Driver" Drag the .inf and the .sys file into this new folder on the desktop. In this case the files should be "bcmwl5.inf" and "bcmwl564.sys"
At this point just to be safe, if there are any existing drivers somehow installed with ndiswrapper we should remove them. Open a terminal and use these commands:
Put yourself in the correct folder:
then in this case, if there is any driver installed it will most likely be titled "bcmwl5" So issue this command to remove it:Code:cd /etc/ndiswrapper
Now to install the driver you just downloaded:Code:sudo ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
In the same terminal type:
This will put you into the folder in which you extracted the .inf driver file.Code:cd /home/<yourusername>/Desktop/Driver
Next type:
Yay!Code:sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
Ok now to make sure ndiswrapper loads this driver each time you boot up Ubuntu. Issue the command:
then open the modules configuration file:Code:sudo ndiswrapper -m
At the bottom of the list add:Code:gksu gedit /etc/modules
ndiswrapper
Make sure you save the file. After this, reboot your box, and omg like weeeeeeeeeee! You should be able to use the wireless utility in the upper right corner and connect to whatever wireless network is detected. WPA is working fine for me as I'm sure WEP would as well.
Hope this helps anyone out there. Keep in mind I am pretty novice when it comes to Linux, and this is my first attempt to give back to the community, so enjoy!