Re: Broadcom 43xx Wireless Network Adapter
# 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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