HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

[numlok]

Hi! I have runned through the whole walkthrough a couple of times, it has worked, but then suddenly stopped working because of rebooting or opening network properties or things like that. Now I tried again, and it did not even recognise my card as eth1, so nothing works and sadness is victorious :-/

Anyway. ndiswrapper_setup gives this return:

ha@ha-laptop:~/Desktop$ sudo ./ndiswrapper_setup
0000:01:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
ndiswrapper_setup, Copyright (C) 2006 Adam Blackburn
ndiswrapper_setup comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
type please see the file gpl.txt in the same directory as this program.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type see the file gpl.txt in the same directory
as this program for details.
Installing ndiswrapper...
dpkg: Feil ved behandling av ndiswrapper.deb (--install):
får ikke tilgang til arkivet: No such file or directory
Det oppsto feil ved behandling av:
ndiswrapper.deb
dpkg died with exit status 1
Extracting the drivers...
tar: wifidrivers.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Deleting temporary files...
rm: cannot remove `wifidrivers.tar.gz': No such file or directory
Changing driver permissions...
chmod: cannot access `drivers': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `ndiswrapper.deb': No such file or directory
Changing working directory...
./ndiswrapper_setup: line 53: cd: drivers: No such file or directory
Removing previous attempts to use ndiswrapper, if any...please ignore errors in this section...
Driver bcmwl5a is not installed.Use -l to list installed drivers
ndiswrapper died with exit status 23
Removing default driver...
ERROR: Module bcm43xx does not exist in /proc/modules
rmmod died with exit status 1
Installing driver through ndiswrapper...
couldn't copy ./bcmwl5.inf at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 135.
Installing bcmwl5
ndiswrapper died with exit status 2
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_ny line 33: ignoring bad line starting with 'bcm43xx'
modprobe config already contains alias directive

Modprobing ndiswrapper...
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_ny line 33: ignoring bad line starting with 'bcm43xx'
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.15-27-386/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid argument
modprobe died with exit status 1
Moving back to original working directory...
Deleting more temporary files...
rm: cannot remove `ndiswrapper.deb': No such file or directory
Blacklisting bcm43xx...
Adding ndiswrapper to /etc/modules, so it should load on boot...
Removing excess entries from your network interfaces file...
Searching for a wifi point...
eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning.

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:15:f2:75:9a:80
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:15:f2:75:9a:80
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
------

Lots of error messages in there, and not trying eth1 is rarely good for happiness. Any clues of what went wrong or where I should go?

Iwconfig gives this:

ha@ha-laptop:~/Desktop$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.
-------

(and eth1 is what i want)


Any help around here? I would be eternaly thankful yes

[compwiz18]

Hi! I have runned through the whole walkthrough a couple of times, it has worked, but then suddenly stopped working because of rebooting or opening network properties or things like that. Now I tried again, and it did not even recognise my card as eth1, so nothing works and sadness is victorious :-/

Anyway. ndiswrapper_setup gives this return:

ha@ha-laptop:~/Desktop$ sudo ./ndiswrapper_setup
0000:01:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
ndiswrapper_setup, Copyright (C) 2006 Adam Blackburn
ndiswrapper_setup comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
type please see the file gpl.txt in the same directory as this program.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type see the file gpl.txt in the same directory
as this program for details.
Installing ndiswrapper...
dpkg: Feil ved behandling av ndiswrapper.deb (--install):
får ikke tilgang til arkivet: No such file or directory
Det oppsto feil ved behandling av:
ndiswrapper.deb
dpkg died with exit status 1
Extracting the drivers...
tar: wifidrivers.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Deleting temporary files...
rm: cannot remove `wifidrivers.tar.gz': No such file or directory
Changing driver permissions...
chmod: cannot access `drivers': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `ndiswrapper.deb': No such file or directory
Changing working directory...
./ndiswrapper_setup: line 53: cd: drivers: No such file or directory
Removing previous attempts to use ndiswrapper, if any...please ignore errors in this section...
Driver bcmwl5a is not installed.Use -l to list installed drivers
ndiswrapper died with exit status 23
Removing default driver...
ERROR: Module bcm43xx does not exist in /proc/modules
rmmod died with exit status 1
Installing driver through ndiswrapper...
couldn't copy ./bcmwl5.inf at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 135.
Installing bcmwl5
ndiswrapper died with exit status 2
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_ny line 33: ignoring bad line starting with 'bcm43xx'
modprobe config already contains alias directive

Modprobing ndiswrapper...
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_ny line 33: ignoring bad line starting with 'bcm43xx'
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.15-27-386/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid argument
modprobe died with exit status 1
Moving back to original working directory...
Deleting more temporary files...
rm: cannot remove `ndiswrapper.deb': No such file or directory
Blacklisting bcm43xx...
Adding ndiswrapper to /etc/modules, so it should load on boot...
Removing excess entries from your network interfaces file...
Searching for a wifi point...
eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning.

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:15:f2:75:9a:80
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:15:f2:75:9a:80
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
------

Lots of error messages in there, and not trying eth1 is rarely good for happiness. Any clues of what went wrong or where I should go?

Iwconfig gives this:

ha@ha-laptop:~/Desktop$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.
-------

(and eth1 is what i want)


Any help around here? I would be eternaly thankful yes

Make sure you extract the drivers and such from the zip file using the command tar -xf bcm*.tar.gz This should solve your problem, hopefully.

[Angafirith]

Hello,

I have a Compaq Presario v5210us laptop running Edgy. It is an amd64 machine with one of these BCM 4318 cards in it. I have not had any success with getting this card working properly. I have a few questions regarding the process:

First, are the windows drivers that you use in Edgy the same that are used in Dapper? Because your website is down at the moment, I used one of the mirrors from the dapper method to get the drivers.

Second, if I cannot get things working properly under Edgy, do you think I might have more luck with Dapper? From what I can tell, the version of ndiswrapper included in edgy is broken.

I don't know if it helps at all, but each time I do the "sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf" step, I get an increasing number of something along the lines of "Forcing (some attribute) from 2 to 0". That is, the first time I did this step it showed up once, the second time it showed up twice, the third time it showed up about 4 times, and so on.

[numlok]

#43 wow, I am officially confused, as it seems to be the exact same thing I did before, only now it works...

the terminal with ndiswrapper_setup is now still open, it says "bound to 10.6.6.103 (yes, thats the IP I wanted it to have), renewal in soandso seconds.

But in my experience, it will not work when I reboot, at least it haven't so far. Any clues on why?

[compwiz18]

@Angafirith: Sorry about the server - that's what happens when a server uses DDNS...people's DNS caches are out of date and then it doesn't work. And to answer your question, no, the drivers aren't the same. You can try my server again, and I'll upload them to my mirror as well.

[reangulo]

Hi,

Has anyone tried to get this card working on edgy beta?

[kitchenboy]

Hiya,

I tried to download your script but I got a connection timeout!

I'm currently getting 'Access Point: Invalid' when I run iwconfig. I'm hoping to try following your method the whole way through when I can download the script, however I thought it might be worth me asking about my current situation, as in case any of you could help me out I might not have to ditch everything I've done so far!

I started by going through the ndiswrapper wikis, so I've currently got the 'usrmaxga' (USRMAXGa.inf) driver installed with ndiswrapper, and I'm using the wpa_supplicant (see below for outputs*). I've been reading through pages of instructions from all over the place, so I'm in a bit of a muddled state of mind at the moment!

Has anyone got it to work with the usrmaxga driver extracted from the windows CD? Is there something I need to do to fix the access point invalid error? If not, I'll try with bcmwl5 when your file is available again, or perhaps if someone could send it to me at p_os@yahoo.co.uk ?

Cheers!

Peter


*
____

ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
usrmaxga driver present, hardware present

____

iwconfig
...

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"trinity2" Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.484 GHz Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
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

____

sudo iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning : No such device

____

wpa_supplicant.conf:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
#ap_scan=2

network={
ssid="trinity2"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA RSN
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
psk=********************************************** ***
}

[kitchenboy]

Oops, meant to say that my card is a US Robotics 5417, hence the driver choice!

[rekahsoft]

Hello,

I have a Compaq Presario v5210us laptop running Edgy. It is an amd64 machine with one of these BCM 4318 cards in it. I have not had any success with getting this card working properly. I have a few questions regarding the process:

First, are the windows drivers that you use in Edgy the same that are used in Dapper? Because your website is down at the moment, I used one of the mirrors from the dapper method to get the drivers.

Second, if I cannot get things working properly under Edgy, do you think I might have more luck with Dapper? From what I can tell, the version of ndiswrapper included in edgy is broken.

I don't know if it helps at all, but each time I do the "sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf" step, I get an increasing number of something along the lines of "Forcing (some attribute) from 2 to 0". That is, the first time I did this step it showed up once, the second time it showed up twice, the third time it showed up about 4 times, and so on.

ndiswrapper is broken for edgy (bug 59983)...i have the bcm 4318 working under dapper on my Compaq R4000 series laptop...

[bettermentflux]

It is a known bug in Edgy, but the importance of fixing it is currently "undecided". If you agree that a working ndiswrapper is important in Edgy, go to https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu...per/+bug/59983 , register, and let them know that it's essential that this is fixed before Edgy ships on Oct 23rd.