[Flight 6] Ndiswrapper/Broadcom Pbm

[C Hamel]

On Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:06, chevyou wrote:
> Can you explain exactly what you did?
>
> I also have a dv5000 with bcm4318
>
> I'm having no luck, just frustration
>
>
> --
> chevyou
Try the following from an e-mail sent to this list some weeks ago.  It worked 
for my Broadcom card.  Fact is, I deviated from it to d/l the driver for my 
own machine & it didn't work.  So... I d/l from the URL he supplied & it 
worked.  Good luck! :-)

- 
	...CH


bcm43xx finally working!

Hi,

bcm43xx module finally working in my Pavillion zv5000.

Steps:

1) Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add this line:

blacklist ndiswrapper

2) Download the last version of the driver for Windows XP. In my case, I
downloaded in
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?lc=en&lang=en&cc=us&os=228&product=385148&dlc=en&softwareitem=ob-36728-1.

3) Extract the driver from the file .exe using Windows or wine. ;-)

4) Download the utility fwcutter in
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4547

5) Extract and compile:

tar jxvf bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.gz
make
make install

(why no there is a package for ubuntu??)

6) Now, use the following command to generate the firmware files of that
driver to use with the bcm43xx module.

bcm43xx-fwcutter bcmwl5.sys

7) Copy the firmware files to directory /lib/firmware/your_kernel_version

cp /path/to/bcm/driver/*.fw /lib/firmware/your_kernel_version

8) Load the module

modprobe bcm43xx

9) Run the commands below:

ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 essid mysid
iwconfig eth1 key my_wep_key
dhclient3 eth1

Well, I had problems with the following parameter in the file
/etc/network/interface that perfectly work with ndiswrapper:

iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless_keymode restricted
wireless_key my_wep_key
wireless_mode managed
wireless_essid mysid
wireless_channel 6
auto eth1

Then I created a shell script to being that interface with the commands
mentioned in the step 9.

Sorry for my bad English.

Thanks

Roger
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