Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 02. 07. 2009 06:22:48 je Thierry Chatelet napisal(a):
> > On Thursday 02 July 2009 05:09:51 JoeHill wrote:
> > > 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:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > --
> > > J
> >
> >
> > A Linux driver for the Broadcom bcm43xx wireless chips.
> > Broadcom never released details about these chips. So this driver is
> > based
> > upon reverse engineered specifications.
> >
> > This driver was included into the Linux kernel since 2.6.17-rc2.
> >
> > Another branch of this driver, based on the Devicescape 802.11 Stack,
> > which
> > should be the future in Linux wireless support and which supports
> > advanced
> > capabilities (namely, full WPA support), can be found in the
> > wireless-dev
> > tree:
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-
> > dev.git
> >
> > The bcm43xx-fwcutter tool (required - see documentation for further
> > info) can
> > install with aptitude.
> > So remove ndiswrapper and try again.
> > Give some detail from ifconfig, iwconfig..
> >
> >
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>
> Another suggestion: the proprietary driver downloadable from broadcom's
> website works exceedingly well for BCM4321, so chances are it would
> work with your hardware as well. The driver comes with exhaustive
> instructions for compiling, so it is relatively hassle-free to install.
> But, needless to say, it does not follow the Debian free software
> guidelines... and is therefore not supported by Debian in any way, I
> thik.
I am having a lot of trouble locating the driver for this device on the
broadcom site. The only network drivers I see so far are for ethernet NIC's.
--
J
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