Wireless problem

[Alan Dacey Sr.]

On Saturday, June 05, 2010 01:14:48 pm Harry Hersh wrote:
> I just installed Kubuntu on my Dell Latitude D400. The hardwire (tcp/ip) connection into my router works fine but I cannot get the wireless capability to work, even though it did when I was running XT on this hardware. The wireless modem in the laptop is a Broadcom BCM4306, which I understand from browsing around causes problems for many, but being a unix/linux user but not a guru, I can't figure this out. When I try to run
> 	sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
> the response is that ndiswraper-utils doesn't exist. Same for
> 	sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware ~Desktop/wl_apsta.o.
> 
> Can someone clarify what the problem is, and how I might be able to resolve it.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
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> Harry Hersh
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I cannot help you with the Broadcomm driver but I do have some advice on installing ndiswrapper.  When you try to install something that comes back as 'doesn't exist', it usually means that you spelled the name of the package wrong or tried the wrong package name.  The easiest way to get the right name/spelling is to use aptitude search.  In your case you would type:
    aptitude search ndiswrapper
It will then show this:
   p   ndiswrapper-common                                                         - Common scripts required to use the utilities for ndiswrapper                         
   v   ndiswrapper-modules-1.9                                                    -                                                                                      
   p   ndiswrapper-utils-1.9                                                      - Userspace utilities for the ndiswrapper Linux kernel module                          

The first column tells you something about the state of the package.  An i stands for installed.  A full explanation is in the man pages, type man:aptitude in Konqueror or on the command line.  The correct package name, in Lucid, is ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 

Try it on your system and see what comes up.  Another useful command is the aptitude show command, it tells you more about the package.  Play with them.

aptitude show ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

Package: ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
State: not installed
Version: 1.54-2ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 131k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), ndiswrapper-common
Suggests: ndiswrapper-source
Description: Userspace utilities for the ndiswrapper Linux kernel module
 Some vendors do not release specifications of the hardware or provide a Linux driver for their wireless network cards. This project implements Windows kernel API and
 NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) API within Linux kernel. A Windows driver for wireless network card is then linked to this implementation so that the
 driver runs natively, as though it is in Windows, without binary emulation. 
 
 This package contains the userspace tools. You will also need the kernel module package.
Homepage: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

alan at kirk:~$ 


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