Re: Broadcom 43xx Wireless Network Adapter

[Bogart Salzberg <webmaster@inkfist.com>]

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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