Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
2009/7/2 JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com>:
>
> I first tried to get wireless working following this page on the Debian Wiki:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx
>
> but then found out that my particular device was not supported by that driver.
>
> I then tried the tutorial on this page:
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> http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper
>
> I have a Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03), so I got the
> driver from HP, the vendor of this notebook. It is installed, and shows up in
> ndisgtk, but shows 'Hardware present: no'.
>
> I installed wicd to see if that would at least let me see more of what was
> going on, but although it says it's running, when I try to access the wicd
> network manager, nothing opens. Gnome network manager shows no wireless
> connection.
>
> Any tips really greatly appreciated.
There is better way if you use Debian Lenny
Try install b43-fwcutter package.
aptitude install b43-fwcutter
Regards
Mariusz Sielicki
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