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Thread: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

  1. #1481
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Thanks for the great script. I am a complete linux noob but really want to give Ubuntu a good go (after years of getting frustrated with WIndows) but was starting to get disheartened after 6 hours of trying to get my wireless to work. (internet sharing with my friends Windows XP machine). The script worked first time. I can now cut the umbilical cord to my friends XP machine and start out on my Ubuntu journey. Thanks again.

  2. #1482
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    My wife has an HP Pavilion 5000 - installed Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) - I tried the download on page 1, rebooted, and after setting the wireless password, it worked.

    I am so grateful - now both the wife and I can try out our shiny new Ubuntu machines

  3. #1483
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    This work for me but, not on Feisty, but on Edgy. (acer 3003 aspire)

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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Ubuntu feisty
    It was working for well over a month then i loaded beryl the screen went white and i had to force shutdown after that it stopped working.
    Any help would be great.


    log file attached
    Attached Files Attached Files

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    Re: HOWTO/SCRIPT: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    @ipina: Try sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and then rerun the script.

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    Talking Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Great post! I was struggling with getting my belkin wifi card to work, it took me 1hour+ on OpenSUSE. Thanks to the author of this post (and the downloadable script attached), I'm online after 5 minutes.

    Cheeeers!

  7. #1487
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Quick and dumb questions:

    I used this script under Dapper and Edgy; it worked great.

    When upgrading to Feisty, I was happy to see that the native bcm43xx driver seemed to work right away. The card works and I can KIND OF get on my wireless network. That's progress.

    HOWEVER - the connection doesn't seem as strong (expected) and more importantly, my connection gets dropped a lot AND most of the time when I start up, my machine tries to connect to my neighbor's wireless network instead of mine. I choose my network and sometimes it connects, but when I reboot, we go through the process again. I assume that's the flakiness the OP is talking about.

    So here are the dumb questions:

    1. The trying to connect to the wrong network thing: is that network manager weirdness? Would turning off roaming mode help me?
    2. Is it advisable to run this script now, even though the card's kind of working?
    3. If I switch from network manager to something else, how likely is it that my ability to connect will go up in smoke?

    Thanks in advance for a response.
    Last edited by Max Roswell; May 27th, 2007 at 07:47 PM.

  8. #1488
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    thanks for the quick reply but still nothing the computer detects the card but does not pick up any wireless points

    i attached the new log.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks
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  9. #1489
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Thank you for providing this great script and guide, compwiz18! I am actually posting from Feisty, so it worked to some degree. But still all's not well, I'm afraid.

    I am using ndiswrapper. The icon in the upper right corner says "no network connection", and I cannot get it to connect to the network, which is displayed correctly though.

    I am a first-day newbie (with Ubuntu at least, and all my other experimenting with Linux was years ago), so I just tried out some of the troubleshooting stuff on the first page. After doing ifdown/ifup, I noticed that the router had obviously dished out an IP, and tried a ping - which worked, as does Firefox!

    But still the icon says "no connection", and I cannot get it to connect manually. The internet's gone after a reboot, too - but comes back up after ifdown/ifup.

    Code:
    Log of iwconfig 
    Mon May 28 13:25:12 2007
    
    lo        no wireless extensions.
    
    eth0      no wireless extensions.
    
    eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"eschbaumer"  
              Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: 00:13:49:9E:F2:0E   
              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:43/100  Signal level:-68 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
              Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
              Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
    
    
    Mon May 28 13:25:12 2007
    ----------------
    Log of ifconfig 
    Mon May 28 13:25:12 2007
    
    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:22:9D:53:05  
              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      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:A5:82:59:26  
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:762 (762.0 b)  TX bytes:1200 (1.1 KiB)
              Interrupt:18 Memory:dfbfe000-dfc00000 
    
    eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:22:9D:53:05  
              inet addr:169.254.3.149  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:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
              RX bytes:778 (778.0 b)  TX bytes:778 (778.0 b)
    
    
    Mon May 28 13:25:12 2007
    ----------------
    Log of iwlist scan 
    Mon May 28 13:25:12 2007
    
    lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.
    
    eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.
    
    eth1      Scan completed :
              Cell 01 - Address: 00:13:49:9E:F2:0E
                        ESSID:"eschbaumer"
                        Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                        Mode:Managed
                        Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
                        Quality:42/100  Signal level:-69 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
                        Encryption key:off
                        Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                                  11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                                  48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                        Extra:bcn_int=100
                        Extra:atim=0
    
    
    Mon May 28 13:25:16 2007
    ----------------
    Log of ifdown eth1 
    Mon May 28 13:27:04 2007
    
    There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 4362
    killed old client process, removed PID file
    Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
    Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
    All rights reserved.
    For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
    
    Listening on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:82:59:26
    Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:82:59:26
    Sending on   Socket/fallback
    DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
    
    Mon May 28 13:27:13 2007
    ----------------
    Log of ifup eth1 
    Mon May 28 13:27:13 2007
    
    There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 134993416
    Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
    Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
    All rights reserved.
    For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
    
    Listening on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:82:59:26
    Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:82:59:26
    Sending on   Socket/fallback
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
    DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
    DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
    DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
    bound to 192.168.1.34 -- renewal in 112902 seconds.
    Then it hangs, I have to stop the process using Ctrl-C. But still:

    Code:
    Log of ping ubuntu.com 
    Mon May 28 13:28:39 2007
    
    PING ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from arctowski.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158): icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=75.2 ms
    64 bytes from arctowski.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158): icmp_seq=3 ttl=44 time=74.7 ms
    64 bytes from arctowski.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158): icmp_seq=4 ttl=44 time=73.8 ms
    64 bytes from arctowski.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158): icmp_seq=5 ttl=44 time=75.6 ms
    64 bytes from arctowski.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158): icmp_seq=6 ttl=44 time=73.6 ms
    The point is, the network I am using for this is unsecured. But the network I will be using once the system is set up correctly will have WPA, and I cannot change that. I doubt that this kind of "backdoor" internet connection will work there.

    Please let me know if there are any other logs you need to see.

    Code:
    Mon May 28 13:54:48 2007
    ----------------
    Log of ifconfig 
    Mon May 28 13:54:48 2007
    
    eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:A5:82:59:26  
              inet addr:192.168.1.34  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::214:a5ff:fe82:5926/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:1576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:1514 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:1298180 (1.2 MiB)  TX bytes:255876 (249.8 KiB)
              Interrupt:18 Memory:dfbfe000-dfc00000 
    
    eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:22:9D:53:05  
              inet addr:169.254.3.149  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
              UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              Interrupt:19
    I don't know where this IP (169.254...) came from. Whatismyipaddress.com says mine is 88.64.58.130, and the local ones are 192.168.1..., as you can see above.

  10. #1490
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Quote Originally Posted by schiffsdiesel View Post
    Thank you for providing this great script and guide, compwiz18! I am actually posting from Feisty, so it worked to some degree. But still all's not well, I'm afraid.

    I am using ndiswrapper. The icon in the upper right corner says "no network connection", and I cannot get it to connect to the network, which is displayed correctly though.

    I am a first-day newbie (with Ubuntu at least, and all my other experimenting with Linux was years ago), so I just tried out some of the troubleshooting stuff on the first page. After doing ifdown/ifup, I noticed that the router had obviously dished out an IP, and tried a ping - which worked, as does Firefox!

    But still the icon says "no connection", and I cannot get it to connect manually. The internet's gone after a reboot, too - but comes back up after ifdown/ifup.

    Code:
    Log of iwconfig 
    Mon May 28 13:25:12 2007
    
    lo        no wireless extensions.
    
    eth0      no wireless extensions.
    
    eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"eschbaumer"  
              Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: 00:13:49:9E:F2:0E   
              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:43/100  Signal level:-68 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
              Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
              Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
    
    
    Mon May 28 13:25:12 2007
    ----------------
    Log of ifconfig 
    Mon May 28 13:25:12 2007
    
    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:22:9D:53:05  
              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      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:A5:82:59:26  
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:762 (762.0 b)  TX bytes:1200 (1.1 KiB)
              Interrupt:18 Memory:dfbfe000-dfc00000 
    
    eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:22:9D:53:05  
              inet addr:169.254.3.149  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:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
              RX bytes:778 (778.0 b)  TX bytes:778 (778.0 b)
    
    
    Mon May 28 13:25:12 2007
    ----------------
    Log of iwlist scan 
    Mon May 28 13:25:12 2007
    
    lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.
    
    eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.
    
    eth1      Scan completed :
              Cell 01 - Address: 00:13:49:9E:F2:0E
                        ESSID:"eschbaumer"
                        Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                        Mode:Managed
                        Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
                        Quality:42/100  Signal level:-69 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
                        Encryption key:off
                        Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                                  11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                                  48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                        Extra:bcn_int=100
                        Extra:atim=0
    
    
    Mon May 28 13:25:16 2007
    ----------------
    Log of ifdown eth1 
    Mon May 28 13:27:04 2007
    
    There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 4362
    killed old client process, removed PID file
    Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
    Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
    All rights reserved.
    For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
    
    Listening on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:82:59:26
    Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:82:59:26
    Sending on   Socket/fallback
    DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
    
    Mon May 28 13:27:13 2007
    ----------------
    Log of ifup eth1 
    Mon May 28 13:27:13 2007
    
    There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 134993416
    Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
    Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
    All rights reserved.
    For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
    
    Listening on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:82:59:26
    Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:82:59:26
    Sending on   Socket/fallback
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
    DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
    DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
    DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
    bound to 192.168.1.34 -- renewal in 112902 seconds.
    Then it hangs, I have to stop the process using Ctrl-C. But still:

    Code:
    Log of ping ubuntu.com 
    Mon May 28 13:28:39 2007
    
    PING ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from arctowski.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158): icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=75.2 ms
    64 bytes from arctowski.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158): icmp_seq=3 ttl=44 time=74.7 ms
    64 bytes from arctowski.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158): icmp_seq=4 ttl=44 time=73.8 ms
    64 bytes from arctowski.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158): icmp_seq=5 ttl=44 time=75.6 ms
    64 bytes from arctowski.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.158): icmp_seq=6 ttl=44 time=73.6 ms
    The point is, the network I am using for this is unsecured. But the network I will be using once the system is set up correctly will have WPA, and I cannot change that. I doubt that this kind of "backdoor" internet connection will work there.

    Please let me know if there are any other logs you need to see.

    Code:
    Mon May 28 13:54:48 2007
    ----------------
    Log of ifconfig 
    Mon May 28 13:54:48 2007
    
    eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:A5:82:59:26  
              inet addr:192.168.1.34  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::214:a5ff:fe82:5926/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:1576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:1514 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:1298180 (1.2 MiB)  TX bytes:255876 (249.8 KiB)
              Interrupt:18 Memory:dfbfe000-dfc00000 
    
    eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:22:9D:53:05  
              inet addr:169.254.3.149  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
              UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              Interrupt:19
    I don't know where this IP (169.254...) came from. Whatismyipaddress.com says mine is 88.64.58.130, and the local ones are 192.168.1..., as you can see above.
    169.*.*.* is a local subnet also as far as I know, and also I think eth0:avah is for avahi??? maybe? no idea

    you may want to try a different wifi manager, as network-manager (the default on in the systray) doesn't work well sometimes.

    wifi-radar (in the package manager) and wicd (which is in my sig) are two you can check out.

    disclamer: wicd is my project.

    oh yeah, and it looks like your connection is working fine, but network-manager isn't.

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