wireless card not detected in Gusty Gibbon

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Jan 2 02:25:24 UTC 2008


Raseel Bhagat wrote:

> Hi Goudar,
> 
> On Jan 1, 2008 7:51 PM, Goudar Vishwanathappa Manu <manu.gvm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> hi all,
>> I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on Compaq presarion 3133AU. Wireless card BCM
>> 4310UART was not detected. Output of $lspci | grep "4310" gave no
>> results. Is my hardware not detected or is it a bug in ubuntu 7.10.
>>
> 
> You need the bcm43xx driver and possibly use of fwcutter  for the wireless
> card to work.

or ndiswrapper.  I find it simpler, but (a) it doesn't always have all the
features of native drivers, and (b) some people have philosophical problems
with using the Windows drivers.
-- 
derek





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