Broadcom Wireless Setup for Hardy (Step by step)

[WiredRogue]

You rock dood!
I spent 4 days trying every possible how-to out there. It would get so close but I knew that there must be something missing. Once I found this one all things changed. You created a great (and complete) how-to that worked 1st time out!
Many thanks

[togo59]

I second that Kevdog! Thanks for your help.

(But I'm still stuck -- now reading/posting on the WPA threads.)

[deviant]

OK, I did everything step by step, but I still don`t have a working wireless.
My ndiswrapper module is loaded:

itch@Sisif:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network DISABLED      
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:19:7e:a0:3d:2a
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.52

I used metode 2a and 2b. None of the worked for me.
When I do "ifconfig -a" I can see my wlan0 connection, but in wicd (my connection manager) there is no active wifi connction.

itch@Sisif:~$ ifconfig -a
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:7e:a0:3d:2a  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:16 Memory:efdfc000-efe00000

[kevdog]

*-network DISABLED

Is there a switch or a place in the BIOS to activate the wireless interface.

What happens when you post
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

Are you dual booting?

If you type dmesg -- getting any errors related to wlan0

[cyclingman]

I posted the following but got no reply, I just wouldn't mind a bit of response. Sorry if this is seen as spamming. Thanks again:

After failing to install my drivers via "hardware driver" I was pleased to see this post. I followed all steps successfully, and this is what I got:

The light of my Broadcom B43 wireless card turns on soon after my machine is switch on, but the second gnome is loaded, all lights switch off.

I have no internet connection (seeing as the lights aren't even showing). But strangely (or not), if I pull out the card, then put it back in, the lights return, yet still no connection.

Have I done something wrong? Is there a way of uninstalling, and stating the whole process again? Is there anything I have to change to the settings?

??? HELP! (I'm a bit of a beginner)
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Hardy Herron 8.04 - Dell Latitude C610 (pretty old laptop)

[deviant]

*-network DISABLED

Is there a switch or a place in the BIOS to activate the wireless interface.

What happens when you post
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

Are you dual booting?

If you type dmesg -- getting any errors related to wlan0

There is a place in BIOS from where I can enable / disable the wifi connection, but that was the 1st thing I checked.
When I do "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up", it shows

 May  1 23:48:37 Sisif kernel: [ 1151.877804] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

in /var/log/syslog.
And the network is now enabled (I had to load the ndiswrapper module before ssb).

itch@Sisif:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:19:7e:a0:3d:2a
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.52+Broadcom,03/23/2006, 4.40.1 latency=0 module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

LATER EDIT:
OK, the weirdest thing is happening: If I let ssb module register wlan0 before ndiswrapper, I can see my wifi connection, set it up, etc. Only that I can`t actually connect to my router (i reckon because it is WPA2 encrypted). But if I load ndiswrapper before ssb, the wifi connection is no longer available. And one other thing: when i try to unload ndiswrapper module via "sudo rmmod ndiswrapper", this is happening:

May  2 00:41:44 Sisif kernel: [ 2916.355277] ndiswrapper: device wlan0 removed
May  2 00:41:44 Sisif kernel: [ 2916.355337] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:0b:00.0 disabled
May  2 00:41:44 Sisif kernel: [ 2916.355540] usbcore: deregistering interface driver ndiswrapper
May  2 00:41:44 Sisif kernel: [ 2918.445509] ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
May  2 00:41:44 Sisif kernel: [ 2916.439043] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,03/23/2006, 4.40.19.0) loaded
May  2 00:41:44 Sisif kernel: [ 2916.439355] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
May  2 00:41:44 Sisif kernel: [ 2916.439420] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:0b:00.0 to 64
May  2 00:41:44 Sisif kernel: [ 2916.447436] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 16
May  2 00:41:44 Sisif kernel: [ 2916.803064] wlan0: ethernet device 00:19:7e:a0:3d:2a using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4281300, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 14E4:4311.5.conf
May  2 00:41:44 Sisif kernel: [ 2916.803150] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
May  2 00:41:44 Sisif kernel: [ 2918.826615] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper

[racin]

BCM 4306 working on Gateway 7326 laptop. Thank You

[gcalca]

Thanks for the guide!!! Got my Wireless working on Hardy (8.04), with step 2a, for HP Pavilion dv6408nr with BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02). Thanks agains,

Gustavo.

[IAmMe1]

Hm. I have the 4306 chipset, and I followed your instructions, but it's not seeing my network.

iwconfig:

iwconfig eth1
eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:16 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

lshw -C network:

network:1
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 9
       bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 03
       serial: 00:0f:66:6e:a1:66
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.52+The Linksys Group, Inc.,07/ latency=64 link=no module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

Anyone have any ideas? I've been messing with this for the past few days... *sigh*

Thanks... I hope someone will be able to resolve this frustration.

[lowwie1]

Thank you! After many unsuccessful attempts from other methods, I stumbled upon your well written procedure and was connected in 5 minutes.

Here is my chipset info:
> lspci -nn |grep Network
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 02)