HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

[compwiz18]

??try this:

sudo echo "ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modules

althought that should be in the script.

The script puts that in /etc/modules I think, I basically followed your howto, rekahsoft, and made it into a script with arch and distro detecting...

[Sokraates]

Maybe the first post should be edited to tell all users who have problems to attach the log-file generated by the script.

[Gargamella]

The script puts that in /etc/modules I think, I basically followed your howto, rekahsoft, and made it into a script with arch and distro detecting...

thanks i resolved it by myself ;D

amazing =)

[compwiz18]

Maybe the first post should be edited to tell all users who have problems to attach the log-file generated by the script.

Fixed.

[aroswald1977]

The old script (i386) worked great on this same hardware,

but after a fresh edgy 64-bit install, using the new script,
I type:

sudo ./ndiswrapper_setup.sh

and then I see no output, and can't kill the process without opening a new terminal. The script basically just crashes, and no logfile is generated.

My PC is a Compaq Presario v5000 laptop with an AMD Turion64 processor.
Using the (brand new) Edgy.

[compwiz18]

The old script (i386) worked great on this same hardware,

but after a fresh edgy 64-bit install, using the new script,
I type:


and then I see no output, and can't kill the process without opening a new terminal. The script basically just crashes, and no logfile is generated.

My PC is a Compaq Presario v5000 laptop with an AMD Turion64 processor.
Using the (brand new) Edgy.

I can't think of any reason that would happen...

Maybe try re-downloading it?

[kodat]

Hey guys, I dont know maybe some of you have the same problem as me, but ive got a solution

If your wireless card is on but NOT scanning..then do

sudo iwconfig eth1 txpower auto

in my case, my wireless was eth1. So change eth1 to whatever your card is.

Hope this helps anyone else out

[bourne-]

bcm43xx-fwcutter is still broken but ndiswrapper works fine (as long as you install ndiswrapper-1.8) and if you follow my how-to a couple pages back. I am writing from my wireless laptop right now

Thats outstanding
I installed the newest version of ubuntu and wireless is not working. HOWEVER I have not yet followed your instructions. I am just wondering again if that will work offline or not? Because I still have no way to connect my desktop to the internet when using ubuntu
------
Must be an online thing since I can't get ndiswrapper to install.

[aroswald1977]

tried re-downloading, ran it as root, and it hung up on me after the first echo. I then pasted the entire file contents at the terminal prompt, and it ran, but didnt work.

You suggest booting to an earlier edgy, but he only edgy I have is 6.10.

at this point, you may be as perplexed as I, so...
I'll see what I can find/do, and will let you know if anything at all works.

[aroswald1977]

Ok, its working--
Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft, 64 bit, compaq presario v5000 laptop, bcm4318.
Aparrently the broadcomm native (bcm43xx) works under this release with firmware cut from

wl_apsta.o

this is what I did:

got fwcutter

sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fxcutter

alexander@Toto:/lib/firmware$ sudo modprobe -r bcm43xx

cut the firmware from wl_apsta.o

alexander@Toto:/lib/firmware$ sudo bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ /home/alexander/Desktop/wl_apsta.o

that spit out something like

bcm43xx-fwcutter can cut the firmware out of /home/alexander/Desktop/wl_apsta.o

filename : wl_apsta.o
version : 3.130.20.0
MD5 : e08665c5c5b66beb9c3b2dd54aa80cb3

extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode11.fw ...
*****: Sorry, it's not possible to extract "bcm43xx_microcode13.fw".
*****: Extracting firmware from an old driver is bad. Choose a more recent one.
*****: Luckily bcm43xx driver doesn't include microcode11 uploads at the moment.
*****: But this can be added in the future...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval01.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval02.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval03.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval04.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval05.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval06.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval07.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval08.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval09.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval10.fw ...

loaded the bcm module

alexander@Toto:/lib/firmware$ sudo modprobe bcm43xx

ran iwconfig

alexander@Toto:/lib/firmware$ iwconfig

that spits out something like

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"UnsecuredNetwork" Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:11:50:72:B0:FE
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Link Quality=85/100 Signal level=-33 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

brought up my wireless device (yours could be different)

alexander@Toto:/lib/firmware$ sudo ifconfig eth1 up

ran ifconfig

alexander@Toto:/lib/firmware$ ifconfig

which gave me the following info

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B0:BD9:3F
inet addr:192.168.2.5 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b0ff:febd:d93f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5725 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5366 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6305910 (6.0 MiB) TX bytes:643125 (628.0 KiB)
Interrupt:225 Base address:0x8000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:60:45:2C
inet addr:192.168.2.3 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:a5ff:fe60:452c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1020 (1020.0 b) TX bytes:1780 (1.7 KiB)
Interrupt:233 Base address:0xc000

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:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)

trying to scan worked!

alexander@Toto:/lib/firmware$ iwlist eth1 scan

eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:50:72:B0:FE
ESSID:"UnsecuredNetwork"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=100/100 Signal level=-25 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 72ms ago

so i connected to the interet and started this post:

alexander@Toto:/lib/firmware$ sudo dhclient eth1
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 4554
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:a5:60:45:2c
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:60:45:2c
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.2.1
DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.2.1
bound to 192.168.2.3 -- renewal in 2147483648 seconds.

alexander@Toto:/lib/firmware$ firefox http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...197102&page=65

if you are following this, don't forget to

sudo gedit /etc/modules

add the line

bcm43xx

and remove or put a # in front of the line

ndiswrapper