[Bug 379506] Re: Intrepid no wireless connection Broadcom BCM4318

[jan]

I spent hours and did some more research. I understand the nature of the problem is proprietary drivers for the wifi card that are not written for Linux, and there are three basic solutions (with many variant methods), but none of them are specified as working with BCM4318. There is a Broadcom solution for other BCM43** cards, there is NDISwrapper, and there is the bcm43xx-fwcutter (Ubuntu) that seemed to work for earlier Ubuntu releases. Each solution set seems to have its' problems and complexities. I found no solutions that spell out that they worked with BCM4318 and Ubuntu 8.10, so I am giving up on Intrepid and installing Jaunty 9.04. Will work on getting it running with 9.04. 
As far as I am concerned, this is a very serious bug with Intrepid, because it will not work without a major hassle, and no wireless network connection makes a laptop dependent on either sticking with "Windoze" or staying wired.

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Intrepid no wireless connection Broadcom BCM4318
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