Re: Wireless network not working after upgrade too 10.10
Yup, it tells me that you are running a clean b43 and dependencies but that your BCM4318 wireless chip won't respond. Your acer-aspire-3680 laptop has drivers available on the web. First, download the ndiswrapper tools from the repository. There are three of them, although the ndisgtk gui tool is not necessary.
I have to go shopping with my wife. Be back in a while to finish the hunt for the windows drivers and their installation.
Back...
A version of the BCM4318 windows driver can be obtained here or here. It is a file named sp34152.exe
You will have to install the app called "cabextract" from the repository to unpack an zip executable file.
Open dolphin, use it to create a directory under ~/Downloads called "BCM4318files". Then drag and drop sp34152.exe to that directory. CLick on the BCM4318files directory to give it the focus. Hit the F4 key. That will open a terminal panel in Dolphin in the BCM4318files directory. In that terminal enter
cabextract sp34152.exe
This will expand the files contained in sp34152a.exe.
For this installation, only the *.inf and *.sys files are important. While in the BCM4318files directory
issue
ndiswrapper -l (lower case L) which will list any drivers already installed. There should be none.
Then
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l to list the drivers again. You should see a response saying
driver present, device (some hex addr) present
where the hex addr is an eight digit hexadecimal number separated by a colon reflecting the address of the Broadcom adapter. If a driver is listed but NO device is listed then we need to find another driver.
If both device and driver are listed then proceed with:
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo ndiswrapper -ma
sudo ndiswrapper -mi
sudo depmod -a
Then try wicd and see if the scanning shows access points, especially your wireless router!
If you can't see your wireless router, or no network is available, restart the network...
sudo networking stop
sudo networking start
and try wicd again.
Originally posted by snowflake_nz
I have to go shopping with my wife. Be back in a while to finish the hunt for the windows drivers and their installation.
Back...
A version of the BCM4318 windows driver can be obtained here or here. It is a file named sp34152.exe
You will have to install the app called "cabextract" from the repository to unpack an zip executable file.
Open dolphin, use it to create a directory under ~/Downloads called "BCM4318files". Then drag and drop sp34152.exe to that directory. CLick on the BCM4318files directory to give it the focus. Hit the F4 key. That will open a terminal panel in Dolphin in the BCM4318files directory. In that terminal enter
cabextract sp34152.exe
This will expand the files contained in sp34152a.exe.
For this installation, only the *.inf and *.sys files are important. While in the BCM4318files directory
issue
ndiswrapper -l (lower case L) which will list any drivers already installed. There should be none.
Then
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l to list the drivers again. You should see a response saying
driver present, device (some hex addr) present
where the hex addr is an eight digit hexadecimal number separated by a colon reflecting the address of the Broadcom adapter. If a driver is listed but NO device is listed then we need to find another driver.
If both device and driver are listed then proceed with:
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo ndiswrapper -ma
sudo ndiswrapper -mi
sudo depmod -a
Then try wicd and see if the scanning shows access points, especially your wireless router!
If you can't see your wireless router, or no network is available, restart the network...
sudo networking stop
sudo networking start
and try wicd again.
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