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Thread: How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

  1. #591
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    Re: How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

    Thank you for this fantastic howto. I think it has worked for me. The wlan interface (it's a broadcom with 4311 chipset) seems to work. I can scan for networks and I get a dhcp or static connection to my wlan network. Even WPA is really working.

    The only problem is that I can't see any websites in my browsers. Ping, apt-get update is no problem, but kopete is also not working with wlan.
    Might this be a problem with the broadcom driver?

    Thanks for reading.

  2. #592
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    Re: How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

    I'm seeing your problem with Edgy...

    "bcm43xx: Controller RESET (TX timeout)"

    When it happens my keyboard is frozen - my mouse works - but sometimes the only way to shutdown or reboot is a hard reset.

    Menus respond but don't do anything.

    I'm trying a different kernel.

    Jon

  3. #593
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    Re: How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

    I'm using the Generic-Kernel, but I also tried some tests with the i386. The same problem.

  4. #594
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    Re: How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

    My problem continues...

    I've read something about this being a Kernel issue in Red Hat when some people switched to SMP version of Kernel.

    I'm not using a SMP version as far as I know... just whatever was installed by Edgy. This is a single core Athlon 64.

    Jon

  5. #595
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    Re: How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

    Thank you nickm!!! I've been trying to get this card to work for days! Got a Motorola wn825g pc card and could NOT get it to work even with all the various other walkthroughs I tried and the reinstalls of the ubuntu edgy alternate cd when the walkthroughs screwed up my system. I had basically given up, since I had no way to connect to the internet besides this wireless card as I have only a phone line jack in my laptop...that's it. I have usb ports on a pc card but they wouldn't let the usb2ethernet adapter work, so I was pretty much screwed. I was downloading the ndiswrapper util on a usb drive at an internet cafe and transferring it to ubuntu and back and forth and back and forth with everything to try to get it to work. My time was almost up at the cafe but I happened to run into your walkthrough. I saved it on the usb, and since it's two in the morning, I ran back to my place, gave it a try, and said..."If it doesn't work, I'm going back to *******..." so I type in my router's address and IT WORKS!!

    Thanks nickm, this deserves to be put in a more prominent area as it is a major solution for a lot of people.

    greenxmoke

  6. #596
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    Re: How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

    I'm not using a SMP version as far as I know... just whatever was installed by Edgy.
    I`ve tried with an smp Kernel and without. Now I`m using ndiswrapper at the moment, but I'm trying for the future.

  7. #597
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    Re: How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

    Can you use WPA encryption with ndiswrapper?

    That's the whole reason I'm using 'network manager'...

  8. #598
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    Re: How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

    With ndiswrapper everything, even WPA encryption, works fine.

  9. #599
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    Re: How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

    Hey guys,

    Just wanted to thank blackest_knight, and everyone else on this forum for the immense amount of info here.

    blackest_knight had posted a zip file with the firmware for my card with instructions to put it in the /lib/firmware folder, which, after doing, my "sudo dhclient eth1" command fired up my wifi card no problem!

    Before I was getting something like SSCIOFFLAGS: No file or directory found

    After adding the firmware files I get:

    Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
    Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
    All rights reserved.
    For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

    Listening on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:48:d5:7c
    Sending on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:48:d5:7c
    Sending on Socket/fallback
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
    No DHCPOFFERS received.
    No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
    Just FYI I am not currently near an AP so that's why it didn't find one. But my Wifi light is ON for the first time and I am sure it will work when I get home! If nothing else I am one HUGE step closer... thank you thank you thank you!
    Last edited by sakko; November 9th, 2006 at 07:23 PM.

  10. #600
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    Re: How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

    worked excellently, thank you so much! I even had the dreaded:

    Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [Airforce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

    Thanks again,

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