I have a Dell Inspiron 700m laptop. When I go into > System Settings > Network Setttings > it lists both of my network devices. However everytime I try and enable the wireless, it disables itself within a second. I realize that it is a Broadcom card, (I know how much they hate Linux), but I was told that this card was actually supported without needing NDISwrapper. I don't know what is causing my problem and it just may be some simple menu setting, but is there anyway I can get this running without NDISwrapper? If so, be very specific. I am a pretty experienced Windows user but pretty much a Linux noob. I have been trying to switch to Linux for over a year, but stuff like this keeps me coming back to Windows. I can't use NDISwrapper because I was wanting to run some programs that won't work with NDIS.
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Re: Help with wireless on a Dell Inspiron 700m
I had the same problem, Took over one month no internet wireless, but I was told to try the new ndiswrapper, I used the new ndiswrapper and now my broadcom 4318 works. Try downloading the new ndiswrapper 1.1.7 and see if that helps. After installing it, type sudo modprobe ndiswrapper -
Re: Help with wireless on a Dell Inspiron 700m
Is there anyway to get wireless running WITHOUT NDISwrapper? I heard support for this driver is in the kernel.Comment
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Re: Help with wireless on a Dell Inspiron 700m
How I got my broadcom to work in under 5 minutes in Xubuntu Dapper Drake.
Step 1: Get the ndiswrapper utils
Step 2: Get the GTK frontend
Step 3: Download Drivers for your card
Step 4: Look under system for GTK frontend
Step 5: Install Driver
Step 6: Add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules
step 7: Blacklist bcom43xx
Step 8: Reboot computer
Step 9: Configure Wireless
That's it. Took me about 5 minutes on my Dell 1300 and my wireless works awesome.
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