How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

[peewee3ie]

this work very will on Kubuntu ver 7.04 (Is what i Have on my laptop) as well as ubuntu. My laptop is a Acer Aspire 5050. Thank you for the info on making the wireless card work

Tony MC Gurie

[tgbrowning]

I'm getting a result that confuses me a bit. In the terminal, when I entered:

lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation

I'm getting the following result:

01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 4328 (rev 03)

The reason this confuses me is I just set up a computer for my daughter -- same model, using the exact same distro (Feisty Fawn) with all of the hardware identical, and things proceeded exactly like your "How To" -- letter by letter. Obviously, something isn't the same, but I damned if I can figure out what. Any ideas why a machine with the same hardware would turn up a wifi card as unknown one time and known another?

Browning>>>

[peewee3ie]

tgbrowning

JUst do it. I had the same thing as you and it worked when i done it all. I world try it and it should work.

[tgbrowning]

Tha's probably what I'll end up doing, since it did work the first time on the other machine. I was just worried about the fact that the computer seems to see it as an unknown device.

Browning>>>

[djino]

OMG!!! The guide work.. BEST GUIDE EVER!!!!.. THANK YOU!!!!!

djino
"Who is now wired-free thanks to the guide"

[jazzflight]

This worked great with my Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) card. And to everyone who is having problems with getting this to work, try this:


and add:

to a new line.

Thank God!!! I could kiss you.

[Elloyd]

Your directions worked great! The cutter did the trick.

[ahchong]

ARGH!!!
you all know what?
after all the methods that u gave me, i still can NOT run the wireless card.
i still not given up in this thing.
sure ive been bless by broadcom. i dont want to waste my money to buy wireless card PCMCIA.
erm... anyone that can help? other than give me the idea to buy new card!!!

[wzardd]

This guide worked for me (as least for now).

Many thanks.

[smoore]

YES vote on the poll.

feisty fawn, gateway laptop something or other. My wife's machine (she's a linux user now, wooo!)

broadcom 43xx chipset

All I had to do was install the firmware extractor mentioned in the OP and reboot (it asked me to download and extract the firmware... enter means YES!). I had already set up the ssid and put the 128bit HEX password (yeah, I'm slackin' but the stepkids' machines won't do WPA) before installing the FW extractor.

Good stuff, this Ubuntu. Here I've been buying hardware that I KNOW works with Linux... she decides to "try it" and manages to find a distro with point-n-click + one forum search wireless install. I guess I'm cheating a little knowing how *nix works so I don't have to follow tutorials to the letter.

This is, indeed, posted on her laptop using the aforementioned wireless connection. Sound controller next.

Sweet. You Ubuntu guys are going to bring Linux to The Masses. Good job.