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    Re: Wireless connect w/12.04 on AspireOne D-250

    Quote Originally Posted by 8lackie View Post
    Will do. Sorry, it is a bad habit because I find bold easier to read. Apologies.
    All good.

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    Re: Wireless connect w/12.04 on AspireOne D-250

    My options on my wireless connection are:
    none
    WEP 40/128-bit Key (Hex or ASCII)
    WEP 128-bit Passphrase
    LEAP
    Dynamic WEP (802.1x)
    WPA & WPA2 Personal
    WPA & WPA2 Enterprise

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    Re: Wireless connect w/12.04 on AspireOne D-250

    Quote Originally Posted by 8lackie View Post
    My options on my wireless connection are:
    none
    WEP 40/128-bit Key (Hex or ASCII)
    WEP 128-bit Passphrase
    LEAP
    Dynamic WEP (802.1x)
    WPA & WPA2 Personal
    WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
    Great; we'll have to find a fix.
    Now I've managed to install Broadcom STA wireless driver...not sure how I did it
    How did you do it? Did you compile the version you downloaded from Broadcom? If so, we'll probably need to remove it and start again.
    "Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system" --Dr. Sheldon Cooper, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D.

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    Post Re: Wireless connect w/12.04 on AspireOne D-250

    .....don't know. I followed some the links around here and tried doing stuff. But I was working pretty blind as I was not sure what I was doing I'd type in the commands and then return to trying to start my wireless. Sadly clueless.
    Ok, so I should remove the Broadcom STA and reinstall it? What are the lines I need to type in?
    Thanks again for your help and patience. You've been kind to take my idiocy on as a project

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    Re: Wireless connect w/12.04 on AspireOne D-250

    No worries; we were all beginners at one time. Even me and even Linus! Let's dig deeper:
    Code:
    sudo dpkg -s ndiswrapper-common
    If it what we hope it is, it will say, in part:
    Package: ndiswrapper-common
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: misc
    Installed-Size: 71
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
    Last edited by chili555; October 6th, 2012 at 06:00 PM.
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    Re: Wireless connect w/12.04 on AspireOne D-250

    A bit of progress....

    Package `ndiswrapper-common' is not installed and no info is available.
    Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
    and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

    then ran sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common and I get:


    Package: ndiswrapper-common
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: misc
    Installed-Size: 71
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
    Architecture: all
    Source: ndiswrapper
    Version: 1.57-1ubuntu1
    Replaces: ndiswrapper-utils
    Suggests: ndiswrapper-source
    Description: Common scripts required to use the utilities for ndiswrapper
    Some vendors do not release specifications of the hardware or provide a
    Linux driver for their wireless network cards. This project implements
    Windows kernel API and NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) API
    within Linux kernel. A Windows driver for wireless network card is then
    linked to this implementation so that the driver runs natively, as though
    it is in Windows, without binary emulation.
    .
    This package contains wrapper scripts to call out to the proper
    versions of whatever -utils-X.X package is installed.
    Original-Maintainer: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
    Homepage: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
    blackie@sherpa:~$





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    Re: Wireless connect w/12.04 on AspireOne D-250

    I guess that's what I get for trying to answer 27 posts while on vacation: confused! Sorry about my error. Please try:
    Code:
    sudo dpkg -s bcmwl-kernel-source
    No matter what the answer, do not install anything further until we examine the result.
    "Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system" --Dr. Sheldon Cooper, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D.

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    Re: Wireless connect w/12.04 on AspireOne D-250

    On vacation!? Jeepers, I'm grateful you even look at email.

    Here's what I get per "sudo dpkg -s bcmwl-kernel-source"

    blackie@sherpa:~$ sudo dpkg -s bcmwl-kernel-source
    [sudo] password for blackie:
    Package: bcmwl-kernel-source
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: admin
    Installed-Size: 3176
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
    Architecture: i386
    Source: bcmwl
    Version: 5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu6.1
    Replaces: bcmwl-modaliases
    Depends: dkms, linux-libc-dev, libc6-dev, linux-headers-generic-pae | linux-headers
    Conflicts: bcmwl-modaliases
    Description: Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source
    This package contains Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver
    for use with Broadcom's BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-, BCM4321-,
    BCM4322-, BCM43224-, and BCM43225-, BCM43227- and BCM43228-based
    hardware.
    Modaliases: wl(pci:v000014E4d00000576sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d00004311sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d00004312sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d00004313sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d00004315sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d00004328sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d00004329sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d0000432Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d0000432Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d0000432Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d0000432Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d00004353sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d00004357sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d00004358sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d00004359sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d0000435Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d00004727sv*sd*bc*sc*i*, pci:v000014E4d0000A99Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*)
    Original-Maintainer: Alberto Milone <alberto.milone@canonical.com>
    blackie@sherpa:~$

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    Re: Wireless connect w/12.04 on AspireOne D-250

    Ah, good. That's the STA driver we want...maybe.

    Your Broadcom 4312 is one of those devices that has at least three methods to get it going. STA is one and evidently, not ideal. Hook up the ethernet temporarily and do:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
    sudo modprobe -r wl
    sudo modprobe b43
    Any improvement? If so, we'll need to do some corrective surgery.
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    Re: Wireless connect w/12.04 on AspireOne D-250

    nix! No improvement. I first line installed firmware b43 etc.
    When I ran the next two modprob lines, Nothing happened...or at least not that was evident

    blackie@sherpa:~$ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43 lpphy-installer
    [sudo] password for blackie:
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package firmware-b43
    E: Unable to locate package lpphy-installer
    blackie@sherpa:~$ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
    firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
    0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded.
    Need to get 3,390 B of archives.
    After this operation, 34.8 kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/multiverse firmware-b43-lpphy-installer all 1:015-9 [3,390 B]
    Fetched 3,390 B in 0s (9,124 B/s)
    Selecting previously unselected package firmware-b43-lpphy-installer.
    (Reading database ... 239888 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (from .../firmware-b43-lpphy-installer_1%3a015-9_all.deb) ...
    Setting up firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (1:015-9) ...
    No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation
    --2012-10-08 23:13:59-- http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources...8.10.4.tar.bz2
    Resolving downloads.openwrt.org (downloads.openwrt.org)... 78.24.191.177
    Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org (downloads.openwrt.org)|78.24.191.177|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 5986780 (5.7M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2'

    100%[======================================>] 5,986,780 2.31M/s in 2.5s

    2012-10-08 23:14:02 (2.31 MB/s) - `broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2' saved [5986780/5986780]

    Deleting old extracted firmware...
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_nomimo
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_apsta_1chipG
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_wl_sdstd
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_shared
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/diffupdate.sh
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_ap_1chipG
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_ap
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_ap_sdstd
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wl.mk
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wltunable_lx_router.h
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_sta
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wl_default
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wltunable_lx_router_1chipG.h
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wl_hnd
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_sta_1chipG
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_apsta
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_apdef
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/README
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl_sta.o
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl.o
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl_ap.o
    broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl_apsta.o
    This file is recognised as:
    filename : wl_apsta.o
    version : 478.104
    MD5 : bb8537e3204a1ea5903fe3e66b5e2763
    Extracting b43/ucode5.fw
    Extracting b43/pcm5.fw
    Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
    Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
    Extracting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
    Extracting b43/a0g1initvals5.fw
    Extracting b43/a0g0initvals5.fw
    Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
    Extracting b43/ucode9.fw
    Extracting b43/a0g1initvals9.fw
    Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals9.fw
    Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals9.fw
    Extracting b43/b0g0initvals9.fw
    Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals9.fw
    Extracting b43/a0g0initvals9.fw
    Extracting b43/ucode11.fw
    Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals11.fw
    Extracting b43/n0absinitvals11.fw
    Extracting b43/n0initvals11.fw
    Extracting b43/ucode13.fw
    Extracting b43/b0g0initvals13.fw
    Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw
    Extracting b43/a0g1initvals13.fw
    Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw
    Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals13.fw
    Extracting b43/lp0initvals13.fw
    Extracting b43/ucode14.fw
    Extracting b43/lp0initvals14.fw
    Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals14.fw
    Extracting b43/ucode15.fw
    Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
    Extracting b43/lp0initvals15.fw
    Extracting b43/ucode16.fw
    Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals16.fw
    Extracting b43/sslpn0initvals16.fw
    Extracting b43/n0initvals16.fw
    Extracting b43/lp0initvals16.fw
    Extracting b43/sslpn0bsinitvals16.fw
    Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals16.fw

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