broadcom 4328--still trying

[flyingsolo]

I've been frustrated before trying to get this to work & put it aside for some time but going to go at it again. (much thanks to frodob for patience & assistance 1st time)
I haven't seen another successful post for this device but am wondering if it is reasonable to follow one of the posts dealing with broadcom 4318 or broadcom 43** while just substituting my particular broadcom drivers extracted from windows? Must I have the very latest ndiswrapper? Are there any other particular problems I should be aware of starting out again?

[revmc]

Although this is written for Dapper, it is the process I followed for my BCM43xx, I works and I use Edgy.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...bcm43xx/Dapper

I a newbie but I think the process works for all bcm43xx's.

Bill

[flyingsolo]

Thanks--I'm using Edgy but maybe this can be adapted. I currently have ndiswrapper utils version 1.9 & driver version 1.29. I have driver bcmwl5 installed but ndiswrapper calls this an "invalid driver!". I had obtained it from the downloaded windows driver for my wireless.

[flyingsolo]

Any thoughts on how to proceed would be appreciated! (started this post late last night)

[oyvinvo]

I've been trying to get my wireless card to work aswell. Fetched the drivers from acers ftp server but it looks like ndiswrapper only recognice the drivers as 64bit version. If I try to delete the bcmwl564.sys and use ndiswrapper with just bcmwl5.sys and the .inf file I get the same error as you. Been trying to get this to work for some days now, but I'm stuck:X

[oyvinvo]

Hey, I got mine working now.
After trying many different drivers I finally found one working. Try it yourself and maybe you're lucky
R140746.EXE

use unzip R140746.EXE to unpack it.

Hope this works for you aswell.

[flyingsolo]

Oyvinvo--sorry, I missed your posts when they were fresh; can you post more details of how you set it up or which tutorial you may have followed? Were there any other issues encountered getting this to work? Yours is the most hopeful post about getting this chipset to work I've seen yet!

[kayvortex]

Hi. I'm in the same situation as you: apparently, my Dell 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN mini card (on an Inspiron 9400) won't work because it uses the bcm 4328 chipset. I'm no expert, but this is what I'm trying:

1) I download a Dell 1500 driver from http://support.euro.dell.com/support...&fileid=202136, but note that it is an "outside Japan/US" version (although I don't think that matters much for what we're doing.....I think!)

2) I unzip that file (R151517.EXE). Note that this will spill quite a few files into the directory that R151517.EXE is in. The file that I will be using is in an unzipped directory called "DRIVER" and is called "bcmwl5.inf".

3) I then followed the instructions at http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:F...Ndiswrapper.29 , to install ndiswrapper (except that I used ndiswrapper-1.9 instead of ndiswrapper-1.8 ) and installed that "bcmwl5.inf" file.

4) Then I stopped. I can't check to see if my wireless connection is working right now, so i didn't configure the wireless card.

Note, there are some other drivers that I could use if the one above doesn't work: there is the one oyvinvo suggested, and there is this one: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R129083.EXE (according to http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/j...3/id,list_c-f/).

I will look to see if this has worked in about a month's time, but until then, good luck!

[hasin]

Hi kayvortex

Thanks a lot. I've got my BCM4328 Working on my lappy (Dell Inspiron 6400). After trying, searching and crying for more than one month I just got it working. Thanks a

-Hasin

Originally Posted by kayvortex Hi. I'm in the same situation as you: apparently, my Dell 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN mini card (on an Inspiron 9400) won't work because it uses the bcm 4328 chipset. I'm no expert, but this is what I'm trying: 1) I download a Dell 1500 driver from http://support.euro.dell.com/support...&fileid=202136, but note that it is an "outside Japan/US" version (although I don't think that matters much for what we're doing.....I think!) 2) I unzip that file (R151517.EXE). Note that this will spill quite a few files into the directory that R151517.EXE is in. The file that I will be using is in an unzipped directory called "DRIVER" and is called "bcmwl5.inf". 3) I then followed the instructions at http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:F...Ndiswrapper.29 , to install ndiswrapper (except that I used ndiswrapper-1.9 instead of ndiswrapper-1.8 ) and installed that "bcmwl5.inf" file. 4) Then I stopped. I can't check to see if my wireless connection is working right now, so i didn't configure the wireless card. Note, there are some other drivers that I could use if the one above doesn't work: there is the one oyvinvo suggested, and there is this one: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R129083.EXE (according to http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/j...3/id,list_c-f/). I will look to see if this has worked in about a month's time, but until then, good luck!

[eddbaez]

I'm in the same situation if you have any info how to install broadcom 4328 in ubuntu please let me know ,I have try pretty much everything I have found in google and ubuntu forums
thanks