Help with making wireless work on Gutsy with Broadcom4306

[jerry]

Kristian F wrote:
> (continuation of earlier post with same subject line)
>
> I tried to set up wireless by following this thread
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201902
> and result is that, when activating wireless (pressing the button)
> everything freezes for extended periods of time when trying to do anything
> (moving the mouse, keyword etc).
>
> Don't know what went wrong
> ndiswrapper -l gives:
> bcmwl564 : driver installed
> device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
>
> which is not really what was written in the tutorial/thread but otherwise I
> don't know.
>
> Any help or suggestions very appreciated.
>
> /
>
>   
I was able to install the bcmwl5 driver for the 4306 Broadcom chip on 
Feisty. Perhaps I can help out.

Does lsmod show more than 1 ndiswrapper or bcm* driver installed?

I had to *first* rmmod ndiswrapper and bcm43xx then

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf (I  have 32 bit proc)
modprobe ndiswrapper.

I restarted networking (/etc/init.d/networking restart).

I hope this helps.

Jerry