HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

[Jeff Rage]

This sucessfully worked for my BCM4306.

[bswindell77]

Worked for me, but please note:

First off, the light doesn't stay lit like it does for windows... it works (Like I think it it suppose to, maybe bill couldn't figure it out) only when it is up/downloading. Ingenious.

Network must me open or unsecured... at first.

Do not even attempt this script or howto, or any howto, if you are using a router with DD-WRT (or any other linux) firmware!

After days and days and days.... I decided to revert my router back to the oem firmware just to see if that was what was causing a 29 year old man to cry like a little baby. And poof, (enter magic ferry dust and a tear) it worked!!

I did some tickering and found that no matter what I did, If the router had VxWare or DD-Wrt linux firmwares, It would only connect in windows.

Just so you know:

Computer:
Dell B130 Inspiron
512mb RAM
15.4 Widescreen
BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

Ubuntu:
6.10 (downloaded today 02/14/07)
Fresh install Dual w/ WinXP
Did not Update (Yet, Scared to try)
Unpluged the wired @ reboot after script

Me:
Cigarette in mouth
Beer, still hidden outside, wife will catch me.
Full ashtray
And a Moutain Dew

Thank you for the help Compwiz18!! (my wife thanks you too, now I have to get back to house work.)

One last thing, I know off subject


UPDATE: partition that I was trying was not fat32.. it was CPM ... a Dell thing, but still fat32... just erased partition (lost data) and formated as fat32.
fixed: I still can't seem to access my fat32 partition that I made to share btwn xp and ubuntu?

[hotshot23t]

Hey I think I can help with your fat32 shared partition problem. Can I have your output of sudo vol_id -u /dev/hda4 if your shared drive is /dev/hda4. If you don't know what it is, run sudo fdisk -l and find what it says under DEVICE BOOT next to the fat32. Also post your fstab file. (sudo gedit /etc/fstab)

[compwiz18]

Mine stays on all the time, but you aren't the first person who has the light only on when transmitting data.

[bswindell77]

See updated in my previous post.

[SuperTeece]

I've gone through the process a few times and always have the same result. I see the wifi card in the System --> Admin -->Networking. I can enable it but it does not pull an IP from the router. In the Networking Tools I see an entry for a v6 IP address but my router is using v4. I checked my router settings and everything seems fine in there, no MAC filtering or anything. As requested, here is my log file...

Log of echo Script version: 0.1.2 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007

Script version: 0.1.2

Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007
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Log of lspci 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
0000:06:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
0000:06:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
0000:06:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
0000:06:09.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
0000:06:09.4 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD) Controller

Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007
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Log of echo /etc/issue MD5 sum: 3cb50a593ad7f171a5aa9f5803354aa2 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007

/etc/issue MD5 sum: 3cb50a593ad7f171a5aa9f5803354aa2

Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007
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Log of echo Dapper final release detected. 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007

Dapper final release detected.

Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007
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Log of rmmod ndiswrapper 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007


Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007
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Log of rmmod bcm43xx 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007

ERROR: Module bcm43xx does not exist in /proc/modules
rmmod died with exit status 1

Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007
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Log of echo Dapper 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007

Dapper

Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007
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Log of apt-get --assume-yes install ndiswrapper-utils 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
ndiswrapper-utils is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:55 2007

ndiswrapper died with exit status 23

Fri Feb 16 16:19:56 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5a 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:56 2007

Driver bcmwl5a is not installed.Use -l to list installed drivers

Fri Feb 16 16:19:56 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -l 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:56 2007

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5.sys	invalid driver!
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1

Fri Feb 16 16:19:56 2007
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Log of echo You appear to have an i386 system...installing the i386 drivers... 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:56 2007

You appear to have an i386 system...installing the i386 drivers...

Fri Feb 16 16:19:56 2007
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Log of tar -xf drivers-32.tar.gz 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:56 2007


Fri Feb 16 16:19:56 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:56 2007

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

Fri Feb 16 16:19:57 2007
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Log of modprobe ndiswrapper 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:57 2007


Fri Feb 16 16:19:58 2007
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Log of iwconfig 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:58 2007

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     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   
          Encryption key:off
          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


Fri Feb 16 16:19:58 2007
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Log of ifconfig 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:58 2007

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:B8:9A:CB:3B  
          inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:b8ff:fe9a:cb3b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:308 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:245754 (239.9 KiB)  TX bytes:42043 (41.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:177 

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:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:372 (372.0 b)  TX bytes:372 (372.0 b)


Fri Feb 16 16:19:58 2007
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Log of iwlist eth1 scan 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:58 2007

eth1      Interface doesn't support scanning.


Fri Feb 16 16:19:58 2007
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Log of iwlist wlan0 scan 
Fri Feb 16 16:19:58 2007

wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning.


Fri Feb 16 16:19:58 2007
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Thanks!

[wncben]

Hey compwiz, I just wanted to thank you again for your help, my 4318 card works flawlessly in my amd64... the light stays on full time when the card is on, and goes off when i push the wifi button for what it's worth...
A little off topic but relavent since I think it may be an issue with the fix here:
I was hoping I could pick your brains a little for some help with fglrx, as I am having issues I think since I used the 2.6.19.2 kernel, and have not got fglrx to load successfully yet... even glxgears logs down horribly... anyhow, I noticed you had fglrx on your kernel page for the 19.1 kernel, and was wondering if I should redo the howto here with the 19.1 kernel, or if the 19.1 fglrx would work with the 19.2 kernel... it seems whatever fglrx howto i've used seems to load the driver into the 17.11 kernel modules, and the 19.2 kernel isn't finding them.

Thanks~Ben

[wncben]

Superteece,
I was having problems with both the Admin/networkin set up, as well as network manager, but wifi radar works flawlessly for me, the signal meter even works somewhat, and it finds signals that neither of the other ones would locate. Both of the others could find the strong signals, but neither would give me an ip either, but wifi radar hasn't failed me yet.... Good Luck

~Ben

[El Viejo Lobo]

I am giving up, I did it with Ubuntu 6.04-6.10 and now 7.04 Feisty Fawn and noting works.
The time I spent in trying to make bcm4318 working could buy me a new Lap Top.
I am going to install a 802.11g Wireless Cardbus Adapter

[Origin]

I tried this but now Wireless is not even an option under Sys->admin->networking tools I am running Ubuntu 6.10, and am fully updated. Internet works via LAN cable but I want the broadcom 4318 (integrated) to work too. I have a Compaq Presario V2565us (laptop with AMD64-Turion 32).

I installed the 32 bit/x86 version.

Help?