How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

[PPower]

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

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

[ososxe]

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

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

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

[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?

[Slicedbread]

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?

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.

[cyberknight72]

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?

[nickm]

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.

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

[gesho]

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

[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

Anyone?

[PPower]

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

For me ndiswrapper segfaults. Oh well...

[DW5]

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