[GAVE UP - PURCHASED NEW DEVICE] BCM4328 Disabled

[nealeb]

I am at my wits end and I need some help with the Broadcom BCM4238 in my Dell Vostro 1700.

After a clean install of Kubuntu, I do the following:
install all updates and bug fixes. reboot.
install Broadcom restricted wireless driver
The KDE network manager acts like the wireless just isn't there but when I run the commands iwconfig and lshw, it shows the device.

I used the following posts and guides for troubleshooting:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3102849.0
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3105187.0

These have not helped.

The weird things it that when my wireless radio slider on the laptop is set to the ON position, lshw displays the wireless interface as disabled. If I set the slider to the OFF position, the network disabled text is removed and KDE network manager acts like the wireless is working but its not.

Any help is appreciated.

lshw -c network

*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 03
serial: 00:1f:e1:50:bb:6f
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.60.48.36 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:17 memory:f9ffc000-f9ffffff memory:f8000000-f80fffff(prefetchable)

lspci

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

rfkill list

0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

[oshunluvr]

Re: BCM4328 Disabled

Try This

[nealeb]

Re: BCM4328 Disabled

Try This

The link provided did not help. I also explored the sub link that explained the steps for a suse user to implement the driver for this chipset.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...6/#post3308691
I am stuck a couple of spots.

Edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel

kwrite /etc/sysconfig/kernel

and

Now we need to edit /etc/rc.d/boot.local

kwrite /etc/rc.d/boot.local

those directories (or files) do not exist in my install.

[oshunluvr]

Re: BCM4328 Disabled

Those are files particular to openSuse.

try /etc/rc.local instead of boot.local

as far as the other one - the command they want you to enter is to load NDISWRAPPER at boot time.

I don't use that anymore - anyone out there?

I believe if you install ndiswrapper-common, it should make the kernel entries for you.

[nealeb]

Re: BCM4328 Disabled

thanks for your help but I gave up on the broadcom card. I bought a Linksys WUSB56GC v3 usb wireless device from Newegg. After blacklisting a couple of modules, it worked great!

once again thanks for the help!