Breezy + Broadcom != wifi

Giovanni Novelli giovanni.novelli at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 13:58:21 CDT 2005


In the following wiki page there is the solution I followed:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SetupNdiswrapperHowto

I'm using an AMD64 build of Ubuntu Hoary so I had to change
Architecture value from i386 to amd64 in four control files under
debian directory of ndiswrapper (v1.1).

On 6/12/05, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 01:45:09PM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> 
> > Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > >There is presently no Linux driver available for this device, due to the
> > >manufacturer's unwillingness to cooperate with the open source community by
> > >releasing the necessary specifications.
> > >
> > >Some users have had success using ndiswrapper with some Broadcom devices.
> > >
> >
> > Does that mean it can't be supported in Breezy main?   If not, I won't
> > bother documenting what it takes to get it to work.
> 
> It means that it cannot be supported "out of the box" in Ubuntu, but that
> certainly doesn't mean that you shouldn't document your experience for the
> benefit of others.
> 
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