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PyrexKidd
January 6th, 2010, 08:41 PM
I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and I'm having quite a bit of trouble getting my wireless card set up.

I've been using the tutorial on:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper

I'm using a BroadCom wireless PCI card. chipset BCM4306 (ver3)
and the newest Ubuntu 9.x

In the process of following the instructions I ran the following command

echo -e "blacklist bcm43xx\nblacklist b43\nblacklist b43legacy\nblacklist ssb" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

and I also found what looks like drivers on my Ubuntu install disk for my card, so I'm thinking that maybe I don't need the tutorial and Ndiswrapper to run the windows drivers.

--OR--

While I was Following the tutorial i used ndisgtk to install my drivers it recognized that I had a card and i can see the ssid of my router.

but i came up with an error that it could not verify if the card was present. after clearing the error message the gui said card was present.

i installed bmcwl5.inf and bmcwl5a.inf and that's when the card recognized the network.

so i'm not sure where i need to go from here. like I say I'm new to Linux




also

how do i log into /root?

when i type
login
i get something like

can not log in without a valid root or something more linuxie

neednewlaptop
January 6th, 2010, 09:58 PM
You can try to find the type of wireless card by starting a terminal and entering

lshw -C network

PyrexKidd
January 7th, 2010, 09:50 AM
what about running ubuntu inside windows?