HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

[Tethtibis]

worked amazingly well on my Latitude d505, with dapper, but moved to feisty, and now heh, can't get it to work again. running through logs now, but thnx for the quick easy scripts. :O)

[Tethtibis]

ok, after all the steps, i got a responce, i had to load "windows wireless drivers" off of the add/remove use the INF file from the first step "download" of this post, reboot and it works PERFECT. thank you much. :O)

[fontenot_1031]

Weird, the ndiswrapper for Feisty version worked for me with the LiveCD, but when I installed it it doesn't work anymore. None of the above methods have.

[fontenot_1031]

Ok, works now. I don't know if this has already been posted but on the site www.ubuntuguide.org there is another method of installing these drivers with fwcutter

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:F...reless_chipset

[irfank]

Use the native bcm43xx driver. This driver is open source and included with the kernel. It can not run at any speed higher then 11mbps, is some what flaky, and supports promiscuous mode. Requires user to be somewhat close to the access point. Is easier to install.

Seems to work well for me. Spent hours trying to work out ndiswrapper and linuxant, and this was a simple click and install solution.Thanks!

[Don9307]

I used the easier method and the native driver on my laptop. It's working now under 128-bit WEP, but I may want to try WPA PSK TKIP instead once I reconfigure my router for that. Thanks a bunch.

[punklinux]

love the .deb file, been trying to setup wifi for a while, and once i installed that card, it started working no problems didn't even have to restart.
my laptop is hp pavilion dv6109om r 6100 series

[LowMemory]

Hello,

First, sorry I did not read all the messages of this thread.

This post is only to share a (little) problem I had following ndiswrapper installation with Feisty :
my wireless LAN card was not showing up at all and it was impossible to configure it !

The problem was that apt-get install command complained about packages not being authentified (warning : my OS is in french ):

Log of apt-get --assume-yes install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 
Mon Jul  2 17:05:13 2007

Lecture des listes de paquets...
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances...
Lecture de l'information d'état...
Les paquets suivants ont été automatiquement installés mais ne sont plus nécessaires :
  libgfortran1 libburn2 cdda2wav gwget ntp-simple libfile-basedir-perl
  libgnomeprint-data librpcsecgss3 libfile-mimeinfo-perl libxml1
  libfile-desktopentry-perl ntp libgdk-pixbuf2 libisofs2 libgnomeprint15 x-dev
  libgnomeprint-bin
Utiliser "apt-get autoremove" pour les supprimer
Paquets suggérés :
  ndiswrapper-source
Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront installés :
  ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
0 mis à jour, 2 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 2 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 50,1ko dans les archives.
Après dépaquetage, 225ko d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
ATTENTION : les paquets suivants n'ont pas été authentifiés.
  ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
E: Il y a des problèmes et -y a été employé sans --force-yes
apt-get died with exit status 100

In order to avoid this error, the following line in ndiswrapper_setup can be modified from :

output=`logsave -a ~/Desktop/bcm4318-setup.log apt-get --assume-yes install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9`

to

output=`logsave -a ~/Desktop/bcm4318-setup.log apt-get --force-yes install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9`

(change --assume-yes to --force-yes)

Launching the script with this modification allowed me to have my wireless LAN card up and running !!

Keep up the good work !

[compwiz18]

Updated script attached, also linked to from the first post. (thanks LowMemory!)

[Tha-Fox]

How flaky is this native driver? If I don't need greater speed than 1 mbps and I'm never further than approximately 5 meters from access point, should I just try that? I tried to use ndiswrapper, but can't get it working. Now I decided to reinstall Ubuntu and try again. And is there a problem if I install both acer_acpi and acer_hk? Laptop is Acer 5024 and card is Broadcom 4318.

Edit: And does it support WPA or do I need something like wpa_supplicant?