Hardware Driver Manager

[Howard Coles]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Nigel Ridley
<nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:
> Hardy Heron (8.04) updated:
>
> My wife's Dell Vostro laptop has been making problems with the wireless card. The original Athros
> card apparently died and we got the Dell tech guy to replace it with a Broadcom Corporation
> BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
> Not out choice - but I have the exact same card in my Inspiron so why not!
> Anyway, I can't get the thing to connect. 'lspci' sees the card and after trying various
> solutions about installing ndiswrapper and bcm43xx driver (it nearly worked - it actually tried
> to connect!) I want to go back to using the 'Broadcom STA driver' that is listed under the
> 'Hardware Driver Manager'. The problem is that although the 'Enabled' box is checked, the
> 'Status' section says "Not in Use".
> How do I get the to 'be used'?
>
> I really am thinking of wiping Hardy and doing a fresh install of Jaunty Alpha6.....
>
> Any suggestions or recommendations?
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel

Try going to Intrepid first if you have to go that route.  You'll need
to download the Broadcom firmware, if you haven't done that, and in
Intrepid the Manager is called Jockey, not sure if that's true in
Hardy (can't remember needing it).  The Hardware manager should have
prompted you to download the firmware.

I think the question is, what kind of encryption does your Wireless AP
use?  Best I recall Hardy was the first one with WPA support on the
Broadcom.

Anyway, if you haven't downloaded the firmware, that would be one
reason it's not working.  Of course Hardy may not support a new enough
version of the broadcom drivers to connect with the kind of encryption
you're using (if it's more advanced than plain WEP).

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Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!