[Bug 355645] Re: Can not set up wireless network on BCM4318
NUboon2Age
rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com
Sat May 15 09:24:25 UTC 2010
I finally got this working in Lucid Lynx. Following the system info
below is the workaround that should give the developers the roadmap to
resolving the bug and many others enough to get their systems working.
I got it from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=190177
By the way, this system info is taken as its working now, so maybe some
of the info is different than before it was working:
My computer: Dell Inspiron 2200
>lspci
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g]
802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"visit"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1D:6A:CB:35:B9
Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:39/100 Signal level:-71 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
jamboi at jamboi-2go:~$ iwconfig > afile
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
> lshw -C network
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci at 0000:02:03.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 02
serial: 00:90:4b:d6:eb:79
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.55+Broadcom,12/22/2004, 3.100. ip=192.168.1.35 latency=64 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
resources: irq:19 memory:dfdfe000-dfdfffff
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 8
bus info: pci at 0000:02:08.0
logical name: eth0
version: 03
serial: 00:11:43:54:b4:d3
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration:
broadcast=yes driver=e100
driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=64
maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes
resources: irq:20 memory:dfdfd000-dfdfdfff ioport:df40(size=64)
> lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 6587 1
ppdev 5259 0
fbcon 35102 71
tileblit 2031 1 fbcon
font 7557 1 fbcon
bitblit 4707 1 fbcon
softcursor 1189 1 bitblit
vga16fb 11385 0
vgastate 8961 1 vga16fb
snd_intel8x0 25588 2
snd_ac97_codec 100646 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1002 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70662 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 1338 0
snd_seq_oss 26726 0
snd_seq_midi 4557 0
snd_rawmidi 19056 1 snd_seq_midi
joydev 8708 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47263 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19098 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5700 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
pcmcia 33024 0
i915 282354 3
drm_kms_helper 29297 1 i915
ndiswrapper 184677 0
snd 54148 14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
drm 162471 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 5028 1 i915
dell_wmi 1793 0
yenta_socket 20408 1
rsrc_nonstatic 10015 1 yenta_socket
intel_agp 24177 2 i915
soundcore 6620 1 snd
dell_laptop 6856 0
psmouse 63245 0
lp 7028 0
video 17375 1 i915
pcmcia_core 32964 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
dcdbas 5422 1 dell_laptop
serio_raw 3978 0
snd_page_alloc 7076 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
agpgart 31724 2 drm,intel_agp
output 1871 1 video
parport 32635 2 ppdev,lp
usb_storage 39425 2
e100 28211 0
mii 4381 1 e100
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Steps from:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=190177
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
add blacklist bcm43xx
After this, reboot and make sure that when you go to System >
Administration > Networking there isnt a listing for your wireless
connection
Step 2: Get ndiswrapper
Make sure you have the universe repositories enabled. (google it if you
dont know how) and go to a terminal and type the following:
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
this might prompt you for your password and ask you to continue and
such, its very easy, just go through it.
Step 3: Use ndiswrapper to configure the drivers
Get the drivers you need, i suggest these ones, and make sure u have the
.inf and .sys files of the driver. If you use the ones i suggested they
will be bcmwl5.sys and bcmwl5.inf
Once you have the driver, put them on the desktop and then go to a
terminal and type:
sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/bcmwl5.inf
this will install the driver
then, in the same terminal window, type:
sudo ndiswrapper -m
now restart and you will be able to connect to wireless networks. If you
have a wep encryption on your wireless network, go on to step 4 below.
Step 4: Installing Network Manager
Network manager will allow you to connect to those wep encrpypted
networks.
Simply go to a terminal window and type:
sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
Let that install by typing your password and whatnot, then restart and
you will be good to go, just click on it up in the corner and select
your wireless network.
Step 6: Modprobe ndiswrapper
Still not working?
go to a terminal window and type:
modprobe ndiswrapper
and
echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
(I couldn't get the second one to work, that way but I gather the
intention is to add the line "ndiswrapper" to the file "/etc/modules" so
I just did it in gedit)
Step 7: Change ndiswrapper (I didn't need this but for completeness I include it)
It should also be noted that if that does not work try
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
and then changing "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to "alias eth1 ndiswrapper"
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Can not set up wireless network on BCM4318
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355645
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