HowTo: Broadcom Wireless on Hardy

[Ayuthia]

I was using ndswrapper with Gutsy and had no issues. I think I might go back to it...


When I look at availible networks, mine is always the strongest. Besides, this has happened when it was in the same room as the silly router, five feet away...

If you do switch over, just be aware that ssb needs to be loaded after ndiswrapper. If you don't have a Broadcom ethernet card (the wired one), you should be able to just blacklist b43 and ssb. Check with lsmod|grep ssb before blacklisting to make sure that nothing else is using it.

[Apipote]

Hello
This procedure, works in broadcom 4311 rev 2 ?
Thanks
Regards

[bcardarella]

To contradict what Apipote said, this procedure does *not* work with broadcom 4311 Rev 2. I just tried it, didn't work. Sorry.

[Ayuthia]

bcardarella and Apipote-
bcardarella is correct. The 4311 rev 02 and 4312 rev 02 cards to not work on Hardy. There was a patch attempted right before the release, but they broke other cards so the patch was backed out.

NDISwrapper is the way to go. Here is a link that might help. The post was created by someone who as the same wireless card as yours.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=769990

[summuner848]

AAAAHH!!! I don't know what i did!? For some reason, i get this:

user@user-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
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Does anyone at all have an idea of how to fix this?

[Ayuthia]

AAAAHH!!! I don't know what i did!? For some reason, i get this:

user@user-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
___

Does anyone at all have an idea of how to fix this?

What does ifconfig show? It might be possible that yours could be eth1.

[Apipote]

The 4311 rev 02 and 4312 rev 02 cards to not work on Hardy

Thanks, I will wait Intrepid with kernel 2625
Gracias !!

[Dav_Criv]

Hello, I am running into a problem when i try to install the firmware....i dont know why it is doing this...any help on this would be appreciated!!!
When i try to download the firmware either through the terminal, synaptic package manager, or through hardware drivers it ALWAYS askes me to insert the Ubuntu CD. This is the output i get using the terminal:

davide@computer:~$ sudo aptitude install b43-fwcutter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
libawn0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
b43-fwcutter
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/15.8kB of archives. After unpacking 61.4kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press [Enter].

Why does it do this??
any help would be great,
Thank you,
Dav_Criv

[Ayuthia]

You might try

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

I think that might be the auto-remove feature of aptitude. Let me know if that resolves the problem.

[seuaniu]

Good guide!

ifup wlan0

didn't work for me, so I had to

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

and it came right up.

Here's the hardware:

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

Its a dynex pcmcia card i bought about a year ago.