Broadcom driver for 4328 b/g/n wireless device

[hajk]

Have a look at the first sticky in the networking section of the Ubuntu Forums, it requires a kernel update from Hardy proposed.

[cyberdork33]

This is certainly good news and something I've been hoping for. However, could someone explain the exact steps to take to get this working via the kernel update (without running the risks involved with the proposed repo). I'm not a total newb or anything but this is my kids' computer and I'm tired of dealing work wifi issues every other day but I also don't want to make it worse.

Is the wl driver available for you in System > Adminstration > Hardware Drivers?

[enli]

Hi.. I too managed to install wl driver.But strange thing is that wlan0 (was using ndiswrapper before wl) is renamed to eth1 and i cant scan the network.

[codfe]iwlist scan[/code]
says that none of the interfaces scan or something like that.

I see big improvement over the signal strength i can have with this driver. Previously with ndiswrapper : 14-16% now with wl :20%.
I dont want to configure eth1 manually as with ndiswrapper nm-applet could connect to the AP but with eth1 (wl driver) it gets confused i guess.

What would be the remedy ?

Regards
EnLi

[cyberdork33]

did you make sure to unload / block ndiswrapper?

[enli]

did you make sure to unload / block ndiswrapper?

I am new to ubuntu so excuse my negligence on that topic.

ndiswrapper wasnt added to /etc/modules so i guess it was not loaded and i did a reboot before i updated kernel as the first post of the topic suggests.

How do i check if ndiswrapper wasnt loaded ?
Is this right ?

modprobe -l | grep ndiswrapper

Also i checked if wlan card was using the right driver by using

lshw -C network

module was "wl"

Regards
EnLi

[m.musashi]

Is the wl driver available for you in System > Adminstration > Hardware Drivers?

No. It isn't. Do I need to enable a different repo or install the referred to kernel?

[cyberdork33]

This is certainly good news and something I've been hoping for. However, could someone explain the exact steps to take to get this working via the kernel update (without running the risks involved with the proposed repo). I'm not a total newb or anything but this is my kids' computer and I'm tired of dealing work wifi issues every other day but I also don't want to make it worse.

Thanks.

Yes, in hardy it is in the proposed repo. If you look near the beginning of this thread (1st page), there is information about this. It might be easier to just wait a month or so for Intrepid as it will be included by default there.

[m.musashi]

Well, for better or worse, I enabled the hardy proposed repo and installed the new kernel. The wl driver then showed up as in use. It seemed a bit flaky so I did the below steps from page 1 and all seems to be working. I've had issues in the past with the connection just stopping working even though network manger showed it connected. We'll see if this solves that issue.

This yields the following /etc/modprobe.d/wl file:

# blacklist unwanted modules for wl to work
blacklist ssb
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist ndiswrapper

# ignore symbols' versions (necessary on 2.6.24-21)
install wl /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install --force-modversion wl $CMDLINE_OPTS

Don't forget to run:

update-initramfs -k all -u

Someone also mentioned bypassing network manager and setting up the connection in network interfaces. Anyone try that? Just curious how it worked.

[Ek0nomik]

Has anyone gotten this working on Intrepid? Intrepid includes wl, but loading the wl module doesn't bring on the WiFi light.

[cyberdork33]

Has anyone gotten this working on Intrepid? Intrepid includes wl, but loading the wl module doesn't bring on the WiFi light.

works for me... see the first few posts in this thread about disabling ssb...