[Flight 6] Ndiswrapper/Broadcom Pbm

[C Hamel]

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On Monday 10 April 2006 09:57, Jon Dixon wrote:
> C Hamel wrote:
> > I have a Broadcom integrated wireless card on my HP ze5570us box and the
> > bcm43xx driver seems not to work --microcode error-- and ndiswrapper
> > segfaults, but loads.  I see people blithely listing their chipsets on
> > this page... http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List
> > ...yet when I utilize 'lspci' I get the following, appareently w/o
> > chipset:
> >
> > 0000:00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
> > Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
> > 	Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00e7
> > 	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
> > 	Memory at d0002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
> > 	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> >
> > I really need to get this working.  Worked in Breezy, w/ndiswrapper,
> > right out of the box.  That distro has been dist-upgraded to Flight 6,
> > and it doesn't work any longer.  I need a hammer & screwdriver. :-\ <LOL>
>
> Hi
>
> I have a BCM4318 in my HP zd8290, and have to do the following:
>
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: Add a line containing bcm43xx.
>
> I've not had any luck with network manager either, so I have a script I
> run as follows:
>
> sudo iwconfig eth1 essid <your_essid>
> sudo iwconfig eth1 mode managed
> sudo iwconfig eth1 key open <your_wep_key_here>
> sudo iwlist eth1 scan
> sudo dhclient eth1
>
> YMMV, but I have always had to do this in Dapper (and previously in
> Breezy to get the card working, but without the blacklisting).
>
> HTH,
>
> Jon
It just occurred to me that I didn't give my inf/driver name: bcmwl5.inf & 
bcmwl5.sys

As you can see, it apparently isn't the same model as yours(?).  Since I can't 
load the driver w/o segfault, I'm afraid that isn't much help. :-\  Thanks, 
anyhow! :-)
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