Help installing Wireless adapter

[Aere Greenway]

On 03/19/2014 05:10 PM, Dagoberto Gomez wrote:
> I am completely new to Linux and just installed Lubuntu 13 on a very old HP Pavilion zv5200 laptop. I understand I need to install NDISWRAPPER in order to make the Broadcom 4306 WiFi work. I already have the Windows .inf and .sys files for the wireless adapter.
>
> I downloaded ndiswrapper-1.59.tar in another PC and copied it to to the Linux laptop.
> I extracted the file but when I tried to build it using 'make' it said 'make' was not installed.
> I found out I had to install 'build-essential' but when I tried this (sudo apt-get install build-essential) it just said there were no candidates.
> I tried looking in the Software Center and Package Manager but found no mention of ndiswrapper, make, or build-essential.
> I am getting really frustrated as I do not understand how to install or even find these commands.
>
> I would appreciate it very much if someone would be patient enough to show me the way to get ndiswrapper and my wifi adapter working.
>
> Thanks!
>
Dagoberto:

ndiswrapper is available from the repository, which will yield a much 
easier installation process.

In Synaptic Package Manager, search for:

ndiswr

I have had success getting Broadcom wireless to work in some of my 
machines needing it, by installing (from the repository, using Synaptic 
Package Manager) the "b43-fwcutter" and "firmware-b43-installer" 
packages (search for "b43").

It is possible that all you need is the second of the two packages.

As I recall, after installing those packages, and rebooting, the system 
recognized my wireless, and I could connect to my wireless network.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere