Help with making wireless work on Gutsy with Broadcom4306

[Kristian F]

On 10/28/07, jerry <jerryturba at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Hi Jerry and thanks for helping out :)

lsmod | grep ndiswrapper  gives this:
ndiswrapper           233632  0
usbcore               161584  7
ndiswrapper,usb_storage,libusual,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

lsmod | grep bcm*  gives this:
mbcache                11272  1 ext3
usbcore               161584  7
ndiswrapper,usb_storage,libusual,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
which is basically nothing I guess (?_?) If I understand things right there
is only one ndiswrapper.

I attach the whole output of lsmod | sort

Doing sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl564.inf  gives this:
driver bcmwl564 is already installed

Doing ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl564 : driver installed
device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
I think confirms it.

Doing  sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart     gives this:
 * Reconfiguring network
interfaces...
Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1.
Ignoring unknown interface eth2=eth2.
Ignoring unknown interface ath0=ath0.
Ignoring unknown interface wlan0=wlan0.
dsl-provider: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.

Which to me look like a whole lot of trouble... but I honestly can't really
tell.

Any more ideas?
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