Re: Broadcom 43xx Wireless Network Adapter

[Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>]

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