I've been futiley attempting to get the onboard wireless working on my
laptop, and recently went through some instructions in a post over at
linuxquestions.org. Despite going through the instructions step by
step, wireless still does not work, with either the onboard wireless
controller or the PCMCIA one I have for experimenting with. The on board
(eth1) shows in lspci as:

05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

The other one (eth2) is:

06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)


ndiswrapper -l shows:

Installed ndis drivers:
wmp54gs driver present, hardware present


iwconfig:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.


I'm running the AMD-64 flavor of Debian, Kernel 2.6.22-3-amd64

Any ideas on where I may have erred here? Like I said, I'm certain I
followed the above instructions step by step.


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On Friday 16 November 2007 07:32, Scarletdown wrote:
> I've been futiley attempting to get the onboard wireless working on my
> laptop, and recently went through some instructions in a post over at
> linuxquestions.org. Despite going through the instructions step by
> step, wireless still does not work, with either the onboard wireless
> controller or the PCMCIA one I have for experimenting with. The on board
> (eth1) shows in lspci as:
>
> 05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
> 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>
> The other one (eth2) is:
>
> 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>
>
> ndiswrapper -l shows:
>
> Installed ndis drivers:
> wmp54gs driver present, hardware present
>
>
> iwconfig:
>
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
>
> I'm running the AMD-64 flavor of Debian, Kernel 2.6.22-3-amd64
>
> Any ideas on where I may have erred here? Like I said, I'm certain I
> followed the above instructions step by step.


I think you dont have to use ndiswrapper. You can install bcm4000 with
module-assistant and install the driver with bcm43xx-fwcutter.
I have one of those working with that.
Thierry


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# On Friday 16 November 2007 07:32, Scarletdown wrote:
#> I've been futiley attempting to get the onboard wireless working on my
#> laptop, and recently went through some instructions in a post over at
#> linuxquestions.org. Despite going through the instructions step by
#> step, wireless still does not work, with either the onboard wireless
#> controller or the PCMCIA one I have for experimenting with. The on board
#> (eth1) shows in lspci as:
#>
#> 05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
#> 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
#>
#> The other one (eth2) is:
#>
#> 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
#> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
#>
#>
#> ndiswrapper -l shows:
#>
#> Installed ndis drivers:
#> wmp54gs driver present, hardware present
#>
#>
#> iwconfig:
#>
#> lo no wireless extensions.
#>
#> eth0 no wireless extensions.
#>
#>
#> I'm running the AMD-64 flavor of Debian, Kernel 2.6.22-3-amd64
#>
#> Any ideas on where I may have erred here? Like I said, I'm certain I
#> followed the above instructions step by step.
#
#
# I think you dont have to use ndiswrapper. You can install bcm4000 with
# module-assistant and install the driver with bcm43xx-fwcutter.
# I have one of those working with that.
# Thierry
#

my roomie has the same wifi device, with the default kernel you might need
to use ndiswrapper, however if you get the latest kernel you can compile
it with a proper driver. of course you will need the firmware, you will
need to get it from CD or website and use bcm43xx-fwcutter to extract it,
then place the *.fw files in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and voila, all
should work.

manu


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Though I much prefer Debian for the server platform, I have found
Ubuntu "just works" in a very nice way on my laptop. I recently
installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop (with Broadcom
43xx) and had wi-fi working with minimal fuss. The "restricted
drivers manager" handled downloading and installing the Broadcom driver.

FMI: http://ubuntu1501.blogspot.com/

On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:32 AM, Scarletdown wrote:

> I've been futiley attempting to get the onboard wireless working on my
> laptop, and recently went through some instructions in a post over at
> linuxquestions.org. Despite going through the instructions step by
> step, wireless still does not work, with either the onboard wireless
> controller or the PCMCIA one I have for experimenting with. The on
> board
> (eth1) shows in lspci as:
>
> 05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
> 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>
> The other one (eth2) is:
>
> 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>
>
> ndiswrapper -l shows:
>
> Installed ndis drivers:
> wmp54gs driver present, hardware present
>
>
> iwconfig:
>
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
>
> I'm running the AMD-64 flavor of Debian, Kernel 2.6.22-3-amd64
>
> Any ideas on where I may have erred here? Like I said, I'm certain I
> followed the above instructions step by step.
>
>
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