[Flight 6] Ndiswrapper/Broadcom Pbm

[Jon Dixon]

C Hamel wrote:
> I have a Broadcom integrated wireless card on my HP ze5570us box and the 
> bcm43xx driver seems not to work --microcode error-- and ndiswrapper 
> segfaults, but loads.  I see people blithely listing their chipsets on this 
> page... http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List ...yet 
> when I utilize 'lspci' I get the following, appareently w/o chipset:
> 
> 0000:00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g 
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
> 	Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00e7
> 	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
> 	Memory at d0002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
> 	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> 
> I really need to get this working.  Worked in Breezy, w/ndiswrapper, right out 
> of the box.  That distro has been dist-upgraded to Flight 6, and it doesn't 
> work any longer.  I need a hammer & screwdriver. :-\ <LOL>
>  

Hi

I have a BCM4318 in my HP zd8290, and have to do the following:

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: Add a line containing bcm43xx.

I've not had any luck with network manager either, so I have a script I
run as follows:

sudo iwconfig eth1 essid <your_essid>
sudo iwconfig eth1 mode managed
sudo iwconfig eth1 key open <your_wep_key_here>
sudo iwlist eth1 scan
sudo dhclient eth1

YMMV, but I have always had to do this in Dapper (and previously in
Breezy to get the card working, but without the blacklisting).

HTH,

Jon