[ubuntu-in] Need Help with Configuring WLAN

[Vishal Rao]

On 10/15/07, Jayanth S <jayanth at amonks.in> wrote:
> Hi Onkar in my previous emails i've mentioned that i've tried both the
> methods mentioned for Atheros.. The MadWifi drivers didnt help.. And
> Ndiswrapper with windows Drivers didnt help either.. And the output of the
> lspci is quoted in this email.. :-) Thanks in Advance

I also recently had problems with Broadcom wireless on openSUSE. I
followed some online steps and the got the thing to detect but it
would not connect. What I had to do differently is download latest
Windows XP 32-bit drivers for my model (4321) to make sure it was
included in the .INF file, previous file only had support upto model
4320. Only then it started working!

What I mean to say is, dont blindly follow steps you read online
because the model numbers might not match and might not be part of any
downloaded files. You need to download and extract latest driver
package and try.

I blacklisted the bcm43xx driver, installed ndiswrapper and did
"ndiswrapper -i blah.inf" followed by other steps, hope this may be
relevant for Ubuntu and your wifi model.

-- 
"Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end madness and chaos lie."