Re: LUG: Broadcom Wireless on Ubuntu - Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:54:25 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Broadcom Wireless on Ubuntu

From : "John Cohen" <jrm.cohen@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:54:25 -0400

ndiswrapper is easy enough to use, but can be tricky. Here are the things you will need (generally):

As you are probably going to compile ndiswrapper from source, you will need your kernel headers (to get these, use #apt get kernel-headers or #yum install kernel-headers or whatever package management software you use)
Get the Windows XP/2000 drivers for the wireless chipset
As root, extract ndiswrapper. /opt/ndiswrapper will probably be best if you need to recompile/reinstall
Go into the directory you just extracted, and type #make && make install. This should compile and install the kernel module. If it doesn't, something else might be up (you'll need to state what the error is if you need specific help)
Now it's time to install the driver of your chipset. Make sure that you've extracted the driver to a folder (again, /opt/broadcom or the like would be good), and type in #ndiswrapper -i location_of_inf_file
If that executes properly, you can now insert the ndiswrapper module with #modprobe ndiswrapper
If all goes well, if you type #iwconfig, you should see iwlan0 or somesuch interface successfully listed as a device to use. From here you can use applications like NetworkManager to help you configure your network (I think Ubuntu uses this out of the box or some equivalent).

Hints: if you aren't familiar (I'm not really sure your level of linux knowledge/experience- please forgive me if you already know this stuff), commands prefixed with # are intended to be typed by the root user. To become root, either use sudo or su while logged into your normal account, ie. "$sudo make && make install" or "$su -" (to become root).

I hope I managed to help you out :) Let me know if you managed to get things working.

Regards,
John

On 8/28/07, Gary Lipton < glipton1@gmail.[redacted] > wrote:

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.

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Gary Lipton

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John Cohen
jrm.cohen@gmail.[redacted]