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Thread: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

  1. #111
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Just found the answer I was looking for, had to run:

    sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor/

    This fixed the problem, it seems to work great now!

  2. #112
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards AND HOWTO: Network Manager

    Quote Originally Posted by punkybouy
    Super job. Where did you find that version of the inf file? Even the one from Belkin site did not work.
    It's my own special one. Actually, to be honest, all I know is that 95% of the ones I tried didn't work (this includes ones on the CD, and downloaded from the Compaq website), and that the one that did came from a post somewhere on this site.

  3. #113
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    Smile Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    The Raven said:
    "P.S. Let me know how it works, as this will aid me in correcting and/or adding info to help out Compwiz18 in getting you all on-line effectively."

    BRAVO!!! It works perfectly!!!

    Thank you so much.

    Also I would like to congratulate compwiz18, who started this thread. BRAVO!!!
    Last edited by VON_CAPO; July 2nd, 2006 at 01:30 AM.

  4. #114

    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Compuwiz...
    Many thnaks for this How To. worked perfectly for me on a HP6100
    I've screwed with this thing for hours. Your advice worked first time..

  5. #115
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    Question Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Is there a way to bring up the wifi without rebooting?

    I'm using a live CD and have the driver/script tarball copied onto a USB stick. Even if I have to reinstall wifi every time I boot from the live CD, I'm okay with that. The only problem is that the current procedure requires rebooting, which with a live cd environment means "start over".

  6. #116
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Quote Originally Posted by LegoManiac
    Is there a way to bring up the wifi without rebooting?

    I'm using a live CD and have the driver/script tarball copied onto a USB stick. Even if I have to reinstall wifi every time I boot from the live CD, I'm okay with that. The only problem is that the current procedure requires rebooting, which with a live cd environment means "start over".
    Try the one that doesn't include network manager. When it tells you you should reboot, don't. The go to System / Administration / Networking. Configure the card. It should work, if you're lucky. I've never tried it with the live CD though. Tell me how it works.

    Hope that helps.

  7. #117
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Thanks Compwiz for starting this thread it has been a great help!

    Before running your script (the default one that includes network manager) I uninstalled network manager and network manager gnome (both of which I had installed during previous attempts to get my broadcom wifi card working) to get a fresh start.

    After running the script there was no icon in the top right of my screen and the wifi would not connect. Synaptic showed that network-manger was installed but not network-manager-gnome. So, with synaptic, I installed nework-manager-gnome, and this got the wifi card working.

    So there seem to be two things, network-manager and network-manager-gnome, that need to be installed.
    Last edited by Predilications; July 6th, 2006 at 04:51 AM.

  8. #118
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    Great thread, although none of the solutions so far have helped me.

    Ive tried numerous solutions including using different versions of the bcm43xx driver and also different versions of ndiswrapper. My current issue is that when I ran the script that compwiz18 posted on the first page of this thread, my wireless device vanished...

    It doesnt show up in either 'ifconfig' or 'iwconfig'

    Code:
    # iwconfig
    lo        no wireless extensions.
    
    eth0      no wireless extensions.
    
    sit0      no wireless extensions.
    Code:
    # ifconfig
    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:E4:EF:A7:72
              inet addr:192.168.0.7  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:feef:a772/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:1491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:1630 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:1628224 (1.5 MiB)  TX bytes:186602 (182.2 KiB)
              Interrupt:66 Base address:0x2400
    
    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
              inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
              RX packets:13507 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:13507 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:1056605 (1.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1056605 (1.0 MiB)
    im running Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 64bit version on an Acer Aspire 5024WLMi with a AMD Turion processor

    Any ideas??

  9. #119
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    Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    I'm not using a broacom wireless card...but rather a linksys usb wireless adapter

    I'm having a lot of trouble connecting to my wireless network...as in, I can't even do it. Here are my iwlist:
    wlan0 Scan completed :
    Cell 01 - Address: E2:C5:A8:9D:49:F1
    ESSID:"linksys"
    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
    Mode:Ad-Hoc
    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
    Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
    Encryption keyff
    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
    Extra:bcn_int=100
    Extra:atim=1

    and iwconfig:
    wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any Nickname:"linksys"
    Mode:Auto Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
    Bit Rate=2 Mb/s
    RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
    Power Managementff
    Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
    Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
    Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

    when I go into the network manager, no matter what I do, it sets the gateway default device to my wired network card, not the wireless. Any help would be appreciated!

  10. #120
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    Talking Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

    worked for me like a charm.
    thanks!!!! doesnt work with kismet i have heard.. anyone tried?
    any successfull attempts?
    thanks!!!!

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