HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

[Angafirith]

I did not have any success with the Edgy script. While I did manage to install ndiswrapper, get the driver loaded, and did see wireless networks in network manager, I could not manage to connect to any of them. Because my 64-bit laptop uses 32-bit windows, I cannot just use my windows drivers.

I had read that the ndiswrapper 1.8 package works in edgy, has anyone given that a try? Either way, I'm going to give it a shot in a bit.

[calvinthomas]

Fairly simple question, I used the second method for edgy (script wasn't working) and it worked brilliantly except everytime I reboot I have to do the sudo modprobe ndiswrapper, how do I get this to happen automatically?

Thankyou, for the great solution!

Calv

[rekahsoft]

Fairly simple question, I used the second method for edgy (script wasn't working) and it worked brilliantly except everytime I reboot I have to do the sudo modprobe ndiswrapper, how do I get this to happen automatically?

Thankyou, for the great solution!

Calv

just do this:

sudo echo "ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modules

[furrious]

Ok. I think theres a compatibility problem with the compaq v5307us. I just bought the laptop yesterday and loaded up Edgy 6.10 x86 version. The following lists my outputs of various things.


fox@fox-laptop:/$ lsmod |grep ndis
ndiswrapper 207888 0
usbcore 134912 4 ndiswrapper,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd


That was manually compiled by me using ndiswrapper-1.23.

fox@fox-laptop:/$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present


I've tried several bcmwl5 drivers, including the one directly from the HP website.

fox@fox-laptop:/$ ifconfig eth1
eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found

fox@fox-laptop:/$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 No such device


Light does not come on, nor does the interface even show up in ifconfig -a. obviously the device also doesnt show in the network manager.

Heres an output of lspci |grep Broad

06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

And one of uname -a

Linux fox-laptop 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Fri Oct 6 00:36:14 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux




I'm at a total loss unfortunately =/. Technically everything should be working fine.

[furrious]

Ok interestingly enough I rebooted and for some reason it decided to work.....Not that I hadn't rebooted 50 times before that but eh. Only problem now is that is wont get an IP address from me AP. I left the AP open too...its really odd. It scans and sees it. but wont grab an IP.


Cell 02 - Address: 00:14:A5:522:93
ESSID:"furbidden"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-42 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

[stupiduglyfool]

After a few issues I've gotten this working, I'll post my experiences just incase anyone else comes across the problem:

My setup:

Machine: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo 1650
Platform: Ubuntu Edgy 64bit
Kernel: 2.6.17-10-generic
Driver:ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/note...bit/80211g.zip
Ndiswrapper Version: Latest from SVN repository

I initially followed the instructions given, ndiswrapper reported the driver and hardware present. But using iwlist was not picking up the wireless router.

Eventually I stumbled across a post in a german forum:

http://66.249.93.104/translate_c?hl=...lr%3D%26sa%3DG

So I followed the instructions given there

http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi...cpi-0.3.tar.gz

You have to correct the makefile to point to the kernel build source, then make, sudo make install.. then do the rest mentioned in the german post.

Then magically the wlan light illuminates on the lappy and iwlist reports my router.. and I can proudly post via laptop and wireless router.

Thanks all.

[mrnoname]

Can anyone provide me with the "If you have no idea what you want, use this one here."-file. Because i cant reach http://compwiz18.blackhole.cx and box.net is temp down.

Either post it here or email it to johan.lavenius[at]gmail.com

Thanks

[compwiz18]

This is not my week for servers. Sorry about that.

OK. Just fixed compwiz18.blackhole.cx, so those links should work now. Sorry about that downtime.

[compwiz18]

OK, I fixed the Edgy script. It will actually run and do useful things now, as opposed to before.

[Angafirith]

I did not have any success with the Edgy script. While I did manage to install ndiswrapper, get the driver loaded, and did see wireless networks in network manager, I could not manage to connect to any of them. Because my 64-bit laptop uses 32-bit windows, I cannot just use my windows drivers.

I had read that the ndiswrapper 1.8 package works in edgy, has anyone given that a try? Either way, I'm going to give it a shot in a bit.

I forgot to mention it before, but I did modify the script so that it would actually do something.

I did some more testing with it, and found that ndiswrapper is at least partially working. I can connect to an unencrypted wireless network using iwconfig and dhclient. I have a feeling that WEP and WPA networks would work too, if I were to take the time to figure out how to make them work from the command line.

My problem appears to be with Network Manager. Would the version of Network Manager in Edgy be compatible with this version of ndiswrapper?