problem of broadcom wireless LAN device on my laptop

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Tue Feb 14 02:16:08 UTC 2006


Real WinD wrote:
> hello I just bought a laptop with a bcm4306 wireless LAN device on 
> board. since I am gonna use Ubuntu Linux on my laptop and I did install 
> yesterday but I can't config the wireless device. The problem is I can 
> see that device at the Device Manager but I can use it..-_- I think 
> maybe I need some drivers.  Since in my high school I could only use 
> wireless LAN to surf the internet, I would appreciate any help. thanks a lot
> 
> -- 
> brand new start~!
> 

You're going to need to use ndiswrapper for it.
Check here for info 
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
and also check wiki.ubuntu.com

Ndiswrapper can be added from the repositories using apt, synaptic etc.
Use the sites above to find what driver you'll need.

Alex





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