HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

**Freestyle Skater** · October 27th, 2006

Compwiz, instructions would be great. After playing with it a while longer, I couldn't get it to do anything. Sadly for me no wireless = no Gnu/Linux (as he writes from Windows).

**xXx 0wn3d xXx** · October 27th, 2006

Thank you for the Edgy wireless script. It saved me loads of trouble.

**maddbaron** · October 27th, 2006

can someone make a script of this please? I am not good at command line yet so most of the instructions here I know I will screw up on since I amdoing a fresh install of kubuntu ...
Please?

1. sudo apt-get install linux-headers-[YOUR_KERNEL_VERSION_HERE]
2. sudo apt-get install make
3. sudo apt-get install gcc
4. Download acer_acpi here (I'm using acer_acpi myself and it works like a charm).
5. Extract it (into ~/acer_acpi for example).
6. cd ~/acer_acpi
7. make
8. sudo make install
9. sudo modprobe acer_acpi
10. sudo chmod 777 /proc/acpi/acer/wireless
11. sudo echo "enabled: 1" > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless
Now your card should really work. You can do
dmesg | tail -n 6
and if everything is correct you should get something like
"[17182761.736000] acer_acpi: Wireless value 1"
That means, that you've just enabled your wireless card and now it should find some networks (if any present). 1. sudo apt-get install linux-headers-[YOUR_KERNEL_VERSION_HERE]
2. sudo apt-get install make
3. sudo apt-get install gcc
4. Download acer_acpi here (I'm using acer_acpi myself and it works like a charm).
5. Extract it (into ~/acer_acpi for example).
6. cd ~/acer_acpi
7. make
8. sudo make install
9. sudo modprobe acer_acpi
10. sudo chmod 777 /proc/acpi/acer/wireless
11. sudo echo "enabled: 1" > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless
Now your card should really work. You can do
dmesg | tail -n 6
and if everything is correct you should get something like
"[17182761.736000] acer_acpi: Wireless value 1"
That means, that you've just enabled your wireless card and now it should find some networks (if any present).

**Sokraates** · October 27th, 2006

Please take a look at the first post. There you will find packages ending with .tar.gz. They contain the script you need.

Download the correct package (depends on wheter you have a 32 or 64-bit processor and whether you want to use network-manager), unpack and run the script.

**maddbaron** · October 27th, 2006

Originally Posted by Sokraates

Please take a look at the first post. There you will find packages ending with .tar.gz. They contain the script you need.

Download the correct package (depends on wheter you have a 32 or 64-bit processor and whether you want to use network-manager), unpack and run the script.

oh ok thank u

**brainfry** · October 27th, 2006

Originally Posted by cvmostert

you were lucky, did not work for me yet... i think ndiswrapper does not work in a new edgy install... and i can not compile the one this post speaks of... will have to get a deb...

This was a new install, the only thing i did before running the script was blacklisting the bcm43xx driver supplied with Edgy, installing ndiswrapper with apt, then uninstalling when it didn't work. It was after those steps that I downloaded and ran the script for 64bit, rebooted and configured my wireless settings in network settings

**Bosonator** · October 27th, 2006

I've run the script (using Kubuntu Edgy on an AMD64 system). My wireless light comes on, but the wireless function doesn't seem to work. Can anyone direct me to some help on this? Here's the requested output:

Code:

josh@****:~$ sudo iwlist eth1 scan
eth1      No scan results
josh@****:~$ sudo iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      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:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          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

**compwiz18** · October 28th, 2006

@Freestyle Skater: Try following the directions _exactly_ from the top. If that doesn't help, and if you want do to a fresh install of Ubuntu, and see if that helps, go ahead. It should work, but for some reason lots of people are getting the same error you are, and I don't know how to fix it...

**rekahsoft** · October 28th, 2006

Does this have to do with the script i wrote for edgy? btw compizwiz18 we should clean up the how to and the scripts. We need to collaberate so we can make a killer script that will work on both edgy and dapper.