[SOLVED] Broadcom 4312 (BCM4312) 14e4:4315 STA Binary Driver HELP

[jron]

Owen, thank you for the information. I've yet to try NDISwrapper yet; I was going to try another distribution first. That said, I had no idea there was a button to turn on/off wifi. I'll get back to you and let you know if it was disabled. *fingers crossed*

[jron]

I've confirmed that the new STA binary works. If you don't want to compile it yourself, the binary seems to be included in the new alpha 2 release (just make sure your wireless is enabled using the button on the laptop frame. oops!)

[pend]

Are you using it with 2.6.27-9-generic ?

[jron]

pend, I'm using 2.6.28-3-generic.

[lance bermudez]

please look at my problem
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...08#post6488308

[lance bermudez]

mine is working now i hope that it is of help to you

[lance bermudez]

Does any body know if the new kernel from kernel.org
linux-2.6.28.tar will have better driver then 2.6.27 that ubuntu has for 8.10 for Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g?

[prajakta]

I have the same Broadcom 4312 (14e4:4315) wireless in a lenovo 3000 G430 laptop.
It worked fine when I installed Intrepid. Once I closed the wireless network switch of my laptop when it was connected to wireless. After that it never worked. I do not know whether it has created a hardware problem.

I get the following outputs for various commands:

$sudo iwlist scan
eth1 Failed to read scan data : Invalid argument

$sudo iwconfig
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Powerff
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

$sudo ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:00:56:a2:ba
inet6 addr: fe80::221:ff:fe56:a2ba/64 Scope:Link
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

eth1:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:00:56:a2:ba
inet addr:169.254.7.78 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:19

Thanks in advance for any help.

[lance bermudez]

mine works chech it out here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...08#post6488308
I used windows xp driver for it.

[prajakta]

Thanks for your reply. I have also installed the same driver, as shown in your png file. I don't know what else to do, and why it suddenly stopped after I switched it off manually by mistake. Tried several solutions from various forums and documents with no success