I'm making this Thread to Help others with the problem I had installing my BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI.
I have a HP dv9000 (dv9428nr) Running Ubuntu 7.10(32 bit)
Update: Now running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 bit -it is working but I had a little trouble setting up... I am including a bug-fix that any hardy (8.04) users should use before going forward*
Note: If the output for “lspci | grep Broadcom” is :
“03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02)”
Then this tutorial will work (baring some bug or alternate configuration you have tried to set up already).
Here is a list of computers that this tutorial has already worked on:
Hp dv2000:
HP dv2415nr
HP dv2418nr
HP dv6000:
HP dv6258se
HP dv6408nr
HP dv6420
HP dv6423om
HP dv6607nr
HP dv6625us
HP dv6636nr
HP dv6660se
HP dv9000:
HP dv9205us
HP dv9428nr
HP tx1000:
HP tx1305
HP tx1499
HP zv5000
Compaq Presario V3000
Compaq Presario V6000
Compaq Presario F500
Compaq Presario F562LA
Compaq Presario F700
Compaq 6515b
Compaq 6720s
Dell Inspiron 1501
Dell Inspiron 9400
Dell Inspiron E1705
Dell Latitude 131L
Acer Extensa 4420-5237
I do believe this will work with almost all hp dv**** and Compaq's (some forums show this to also work with dells...
Edit: If you read the replies to this post they show that many different HP's, Compaq's and Dells all can work by using this method.
Everything I put in here i have taken form other thread/forums, but none were set up in a way that a noob (Beginner) could follow easily.
First we need to do a few things.
You need to have a internet connection, wired since your wifi is not working yet
whenever you see the command "sudo" you will have to enter you password (the characters will not appear as you type.)
Step 1
You will need to download the drivers we will use later.
Download it
Here.
Edit: Thanks to rabalder and MrPickle for the non-rapidshare link
Step 2
You do not have to download the next file, we will do later on, in the instillation.
Go
here and write down the latest stable release number. On May 27, 2008 the release number was 1.53
Step 3
If you enabled the restricted drivers disable them
System --> Administration --> Restricted Drivers Manager
I guess if you never tried to use them you could try before going thru this...
One more important thing... make sure that you know what way the wifi switch must go to be on... If its off you will never get online (I just went step by step with someone, and we faild to think of the fact that his wifi card was switch off... ) Its an easy thing to miss.
On my Hpdv9000, the switch is on if it is to the right. ===>
Step 4
Next we need to uninstall ndiswrapper & bcm43xx-fwcutter
Open a Terminal (Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal)
Copy each line into the terminal separately (do each line separately in every step)
(you can use ctrl+c to copy out of Firefox, but you have to use either ctrl+alt+v or shift+insert to paste into the terminal.)
Code:
sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
sudo apt-get remove bcm43xx-fwcutter
The step is complete even if it does not remove anything (you may not have had those packets installed)
*If you are using Hardy you should run the following bug fix before proceading:
Code:
echo -e '\n#hardy ssb bug-fix\nrmmod b43\nrmmod b44\nrmmod ssb\nrmmod ndiswrapper\nmodprobe ndiswrapper\nmodprobe ssb\nmodprobe b44' | sudo tee -a /etc/init.d/rc.local
Edit: I updated the bug fix May 3, 2008 to add the line "modprobe b44", due to the fact that it was missing( this allows your wired lan to be configured.) Thank you to Ayuthia and the
Ubuntu documentation site.
Step 5
Now you need to Blacklist the bcm43xx file
In the terminal you can put the following line and a text editor will pop up with the file we need to edit.
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
At the end add
Do not put a # in front of it.
*In hardy bcm43xx is already blacklisted, but you need to add:
You can put it under the blacklist bcm43xxline
Save the file and close the editor
Step 6
If you are reading this from the web and you have not saved it or printed it, you may want to bookmark this page...(I always leave the page open and press shutdown. After you reboot, if you open Firefox it will ask you if you want to resort the session, click yes and you will be right back here....)
Reboot your computer,
Step 7
Lets get the drivers ready to use
Find the file you downloaded and move it to your home folder
your home folder is /home/
yourusername
Just in case you missed it...
yourusername is your "user name"... whatever you use to log on...
You can right click it wherever it is, copy it and then go to the home folder from places and paste it
next open a terminal and type
Code:
tar -xzvf WLANBroadcom.tar.gz
Check and see, there should be a folder in you home folder called WLANBroadcom
you could also accomplish this by extracting the download to you home folder...
Step 8
The next step is going to take some editing on your part,
First type in the terminal the following
and write down or copy to text editor (Application--> Accessories--> Text Editor)
the output
you should get something like;
2.6.22-14-generic
Step 9
Install ndiswrapper from source
Now you need to edit five things the following before you put it into the terminal
Code:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
mkdir -p ~/bcm43xx/ndiswrapper
cd ~/bcm43xx/ndiswrapper
sudo wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz
tar xvzf ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz
cd ndiswrapper*
make distclean
make
sudo make install
All three 'uname -r' need to be replaced with the output you got in step 8 (no " quotes should be in the code)
ie on the third line i put
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic
The other two highlighted items need to be the release number you got in step 2
If it is still 1.53 just leave them like that.
Step 10
Now we are going to install the drivers
In the terminal type
Code:
cd /home/yourusername/WLANBroadcom/
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
Again
yourusername is your "username"
Step 11
Now we need to add ndiswrapper to the modules file
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/modules
just add the following at the end of the file and save and close it.
Step 12
Enter in terminal
Code:
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo ndiswrapper -m
Now you can reboot again, and it should work.
Thanks to :
invaleed
anomsuratno
doorknob60
Enjoy
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