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Thread: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

  1. #41
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    zany, if you are using ubuntu64, then you want to use the attachment that i posted a few minutes ago. the drivers that are bundled in the attachment compwiz18 uploaded are 32bit only drivers and you will find that the output of dmesg will show you that it does not like that...

    first, unload the driver that you installed with compwiz18's script by typing:
    Code:
     ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
    then use the instructions from compwiz18 with the attachment that i uploaded a few minutes ago...i _think_ that will work for you

    -rob

  2. #42
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Just want to say thanks for the great script!

    I would also like to add that I spent a lot of the day messing with the bc43xx driver and then ndiswrapper. And I now realize that one of the main problems was a user headspace error. In System-.Administration->Networking->Wireless Connection->Properties, the essid comes up blank by default. You have to click the drop down and select the essid and *then* activate.

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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    I have a Dell Latitude D610 with a Dell 1370 wireless card, which is based on the Broadcom 4318 chipset. I believe I have enabled the wireless card. However, my network runs with WPA2 encryption, but it seems that this driver only supports WEP, which is not good enough for me. How do I go about enabling at least WPA, ideally WPA2, in Ubuntu 6.06?
    Last edited by airrob; June 21st, 2006 at 07:16 AM.

  4. #44
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Dell latitude 110L worked flawlessly, just ran the script and rebooted came back up no problems connected right up to my WAP..

    =D> =D> =D> =D>

  5. #45
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    redmoth,

    thanks for your help. i downloaded the x64 driver but it says invalid driver. Still doesn't list the device in network devices. any ideas? i might re-install ubuntu amd64 if i get the chance...but any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

    thanks,

    zany.

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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    I'm gonna take the 64-bit tarball and stick it in my post so that people don't have to read the thread.

  7. #47
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    Angry Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    I Have HP zv 6000 and the 4318 chip. I tried these directions and cannot get my wireless to work, it ndiswrapper it and driver loaded hardware present, iwconfig does not see it is listed as eth0 at times.

  8. #48
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    I need to thank you so much! I've had my Compaq Presario for three weeks and couldn't get my wireless to work. It's been driving me insane (and turning back to XP was NOT an option ^_~) Thanks again for taking the time to help out all us unfortunates with the Broadcom 4318.

  9. #49
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Quote Originally Posted by airrob
    I have a Dell Latitude D610 with a Dell 1370 wireless card, which is based on the Broadcom 4318 chipset. I believe I have enabled the wireless card. However, my network runs with WPA2 encryption, but it seems that this driver only supports WEP, which is not good enough for me. How do I go about enabling at least WPA, ideally WPA2, in Ubuntu 6.06?
    check out the dapper wiki
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WPAHowTo
    tho wireless is not currently working on my laptop, it did for a day, and i got it working by following the directions on that wiki (wpa_supplicant, etc).
    goodluck!

  10. #50
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    i tried running your script again, and this time copied down the output displayed in my terminal:

    Code:
     ./ndiswrapper_setup
    Installing ndiswrapper...
    (Reading database ... 108580 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to replace ndiswrapper-utils 1.8-0ubuntu2 (using ndiswrapper.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement ndiswrapper-utils ...
    Setting up ndiswrapper-utils (1.8-0ubuntu2) ...
    
    Extracting the drivers...
    Deleting temporary files...
    Changing driver permissions...
    Changing working 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
    Removing default driver...
    ERROR: Module bcmxx does not exist in /proc/modules
    Installing driver through ndiswrapper...
    Installing bcmwl5
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
    Installed ndis drivers:
    bcmwl5          driver present, hardware present
    oem3    invalid driver!
    modprobe config already contains alias directive
    
    Modprobing ndiswrapper...
    Moving back to original working directory...
    Deleting more temporary files...
    Blacklisting bcm43xx...
    Adding ndiswrapper to /etc/modules, so it should load on boot...
    Installation completed.
    Please check the wifi light on your computer.
    If it is on, installation was successful.
    If it is not, reboot.  If it is still not, try pressing the wifi button.
    If it doesn't work, please post on the forums for help.
    the light did not turn on right away, but after running the script, by pressing the button it would turn on, and now that ive rebooted, it is on.

    Code:
    willi@willi-laptop:~$ iwconfig
    lo        no wireless extensions.
    
    eth0      no wireless extensions.
    
    eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
              Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
              Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
              RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
              Power Management:off
              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.
    
    willi@willi-laptop:~$
    Code:
    willi@willi-laptop:~$ iwlist eth1 scan
    eth1      No scan results
    Code:
    willi@willi-laptop:~$ sudo su
    root@willi-laptop:/home/willi# modprobe ndiswrapper
    root@willi-laptop:/home/willi# ifdown eth1
    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/eth1/00:14:a5:7a:4b:fc
    Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:7a:4b:fc
    Sending on   Socket/fallback
    root@willi-laptop:/home/willi# ifup eth1
    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/eth1/00:14:a5:7a:4b:fc
    Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:7a:4b:fc
    Sending on   Socket/fallback
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
    No DHCPOFFERS received.
    No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //DSM-G600/HDD_a,
           missing codepage or other error
           In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
           dmesg | tail  or so
    
    root@willi-laptop:/home/willi# dhclient
    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/eth1/00:14:a5:7a:4b:fc
    Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:7a:4b:fc
    Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b0:fb:28:61
    Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:0f:b0:fb:28:61
    Sending on   Socket/fallback
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
    DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
    DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
    bound to 192.168.0.102 -- renewal in 292622 seconds.
    root@willi-laptop:/home/willi#
    Code:
    willi@willi-laptop:~$ modprobe -l | grep ndiswrapper
    /lib/modules/2.6.15-25-386/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
    willi@willi-laptop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
    Installed ndis drivers:
    bcmwl5          driver present, hardware present
    oem3    invalid driver!
    willi@willi-laptop:~$
    Code:
    willi@willi-laptop:~$ sudo rmmod bcm43xx
    ERROR: Module bcm43xx does not exist in /proc/modules
    willi@willi-laptop:~$
    System->Admin->Networking shows eth1 as active.
    nm-applet shows only my wired network.
    gnome-netstatus-applet shows only eth0 (wired) and lo connections.

    my home network is a wpa-personal, but it was configured correctly with wpa_supplicant, etc. as it worked for a day before. im also in range of my neighbors network, which is not encrypted.

    suggestions?

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