problems with install

[DGortze380]

type "ifconfig" into a terminal. It will show all your network interfaces. your wireless should be either wifi or ath depending on your driver. (if youre not sure, copy and paste the contents of the file here).

You can try the same commands as 7.10. No guarantees, could work, could do nothing, could break stuff.

[huntis619]

ok I'll try it and let you know what happens.

[huntis619]

ifconfig didn't show my wireless card.Under my hardware drivers the broadcom B43 wireless card is in use but not enabled. I check the enabled box and restarted computer. When I checked the drivers again, it was the same.

[DGortze380]

Sorry then, not much more I can help with, not familiar with the card. Anyone else?

[huntis619]

~$ echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
blacklist bcm43xx
steven@steven-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
steven@steven-laptop:~$ mkdir ~/bcm43xx; cd ~/bcm43xx
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/steven/bcm43xx': File exists
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ sudo apt-get install cabextract
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
cabextract is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ wget ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe
--21:33:16-- ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe
=> `sp33008.exe.1'
Resolving ftp.hp.com... 15.200.30.24, 15.200.30.22
Connecting to ftp.hp.com|15.200.30.24|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500 ... done.
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR sp33008.exe ... done.
Length: 4,318,656 (4.1M) (unauthoritative)

100%[====================================>] 4,318,656 389.08K/s ETA 00:00

21:33:23 (763.39 KB/s) - `sp33008.exe.1' saved [4318656]

steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ cabextract sp33008.exe
Extracting cabinet: sp33008.exe
extracting bcm1xsup.dll
extracting bcm43xx.cat
extracting bcm43xx64.cat
extracting Bcmnpf64.sys
extracting bcmwl5.inf
extracting bcmwl5.sys
extracting bcmwl564.sys
extracting bcmwliss.dll
extracting bcmwlnpf.sys
extracting bcmwlpkt.dll
extracting bcmwls.ini
extracting bcmwls32.exe
extracting bcmwls64.exe
extracting bcmwlu00.exe
extracting data1.cab
extracting data1.hdr
extracting data2.cab
extracting ikernel.ex_
extracting is.exe
extracting launcher.ini
extracting layout.bin
extracting setup.exe
extracting Setup.ini
extracting setup.inx
extracting setup.iss
extracting sp33008.cva

All done, no errors.
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
driver bcmwl5 is already installed
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
driver bcmwl5 is already installed
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: ssb)
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ sudo depmod -a
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ sudo cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.orig
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ echo -e 'auto lo\niface lo inet loopback\n' | sudo tee /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ sudo ndiswrapper -m
adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper ...

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* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
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steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ echo 'ndiswrapper' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
ndiswrapper
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$ echo 'ENABLED=0' | sudo tee -a /etc/default/wpasupplicant
ENABLED=0
steven@steven-laptop:~/bcm43xx$