HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

[compwiz18]

Ok, it was something stupid. I forgot to blacklist the bcm43xx. It reloaded it on the reboot. After I removed it and modprobe ndiswrapper, it works. If anyone wants these other drivers, let me know. I can tar the folder and post a link for it. (would get both drivers. 32bit only) Thanks for the help

No problem, it took me about 3 hours just to figure out I had to blacklist bcm43xx when I first upgraded to Dapper.

Glad it worked for you.

[Morbett]

What does it suggest when I can view available wireless networks, but when I try to connect to one of them via System -> Administration -> Networking, it takes along time to connect and, once "connected", I can't access the internet. I'm obviously not really connected, but there's some kind of activity going on with my wirelss card.

Hmmmmmm......

[compwiz18]

Try wifi-radar, it usually works like a charm.

[Morbett]

Try wifi-radar, it usually works like a charm.

I can see my ESSID with wifi-radar. I set up the profile for the connection, and clicked on connect. After awhile, it said I was connected to my network. But I couldn't load any websites. I also got a message from Wifi-Radar that stated something like "Could not get IP address!".

[compwiz18]

Good, we're getting closer. Is the network ad-hoc? Can you try giving it a static ip, just temporarily and see if that fixes your problem?

[pwlodarczak]

I did what was suggested in this HOWTO and it messed up my system. I used the 64 bit driver. Before I could see the interface with iwconfig, it gave
Access point: invalid.
Now I don't see the wireless card anymore. Also KTorrend doesn't work properly anymore, the tool bar doesn't show any icons anymore. My Bluetooth keyboard (Logitech diNovo) stopped working too, the mouse still does. Don't know if this driver broak other things too.
During install I got:

dpkg: error processing ndiswrapper.deb (--install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)

even dough I downloaded the
bcm4318x64.networkmanager.tar.gz
file.
Can anybody tell me how to fix my system?
Cheers
Peter

[compwiz18]

I did what was suggested in this HOWTO and it messed up my system. I used the 64 bit driver. Before I could see the interface with iwconfig, it gave
Access point: invalid.
Now I don't see the wireless card anymore. Also KTorrend doesn't work properly anymore, the tool bar doesn't show any icons anymore. My Bluetooth keyboard (Logitech diNovo) stopped working too, the mouse still does. Don't know if this driver broak other things too.
During install I got:

dpkg: error processing ndiswrapper.deb (--install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)

even dough I downloaded the
bcm4318x64.networkmanager.tar.gz
file.
Can anybody tell me how to fix my system?
Cheers
Peter

Does the computer you're on have a working wired connection? If so, please run sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome, and then run the script again.

And yes, I know about that bug - if someone could send me the 64-bit deb, that would be helpful.

[h0mer]

I tried this howto, and though it worked, I found it to produce somewhat unreliable wireless results, with various drivers I tried. The connection would go real slow at times, while pinging i'd find lost and/or duplicate packets. I suspect it has something to do with range; for some reason through this method my card's wireless range seems weaker than using other methods -ndiswrapper or windows. I suspect this because these issues occur more when further away from the access point -of course, at distances that work with those other methods.

I finally settled for ndiswrapper which works better for me, and paired with network-manager is great.

[calvinthomas]

I have an odd problem, when running the Script it never finishes! It gets to starting netowkr manager [ok] and then just sits on the next line not taking me back to the terminal. I don't know if this is relevant but I did a HOW-TO for broadcom cards not realising there was a particular issue with my one, I don't however know what if anything I need to remove!

If I get this set up then I will actually have everything set up in Ubuntu, please please help!

calvin@calvin-laptop:~$ sudo iwlist eth0 scan
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

sudo iwconfig eth0 scan
Error : unrecognised wireless request "scan"

Calv

[calvinthomas]

bump, Update, progress! But not working still, can anyone help out now? It looks better!

sudo iwlist eth1 scan gives:

eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:01:24:F1:63:75
ESSID:"WLAN"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-44 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Cell 02 - Address: 00:18:39:67:9C:8D
ESSID:"linksys"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-55 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0

sudo iwconfig gives:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
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

sit0 no wireless extensions.

However I have a system monitor on my desktop and it doesn't have an ip for eth1 it just says 0.0.0.0 i'm guessing that is the problem, can anyone help?

Calv