Wireless Problems in hoary -- Broadcom BCM4306 80211b/g onboardcard

[Tim Holmes]

> Tim Holmes Wrote:
> >
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> > Broadcom integrated card
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> >
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> > BCM4306 802.11b/g wireless lan
> 
> > PCI bus type
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> >
> 
> I have the exact same wireless chip in my laptop machine. The
> ndiswrapper kernel module is needed to use this chip since the folks
at
> Broadcomm show little interest in supporting us Linux users. Also, the
> version of ndiswrapper found in the Hoary repositories didn't work for
> me and many other BCM4306 users. For this reason, I made a wiki page
> that explains and goes through the steps needed to compile the module
> from source, and install it.
> 
> 
> 
> The wiki page is located 'here'
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com//SetupNdiswrapperHowto).
> 
> 
> --
> dcraven
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> --
[Tim Holmes] 
That looks great, I will tackle that one later today, one quick
question, though.  The windows driver that I can find is zipped.  Is
there a way to unzip it in linux to get to the .inf files, or do I have
to do that in windows, and then transport them to linux

TIM