Re: LUG: Broadcom Wireless on Ubuntu - Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:42:42 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Broadcom Wireless on Ubuntu

From : adausti2@ncsu.[redacted]

Date : Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:42:42 -0400

ndiswrapper does not create the driver it just provides a wrapper around
the windows driver.

You can find the list of drivers and cards supported here:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,list/

That page tells you where you can correctly obtain the windows driver that
has been known to work with your card. What chipset is your card? (Hope
for bcm43xx fwcutter is now in the linux kernel.) You can get all the
information with lspci and then lspci -n and then look at the list...

So please, provide more specific details as to what is going wrong, and be
sure to read:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,installation/

> NCSU LUG:
>
> I have successfully configured my HP Pavilion laptop to dual-boot to Vista
> or Ubuntu. However, I have not been able to get Ubuntu to recognize my
> Broadcom wireless card. I have found descriptions of how to use
> ndiswrapper
> to create the driver, but have not had any success.
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot come the the Monday 7 PM meetings. Is there
> somewhere I can go to get help with this? Thanks.
>
> --
> Gary Lipton
>