Problems with Broadcom wireless chip

[nobane]

I have a PCI internal broadcom chip for my laptop. It's pretty generic; I think its direct from broadcom. Kubuntu can recognize it as eth1 and a wireless card ( eth0 is my ethernet card ). The ethernet works just fine and I can enable/disable it and use the internet. But whenever I enable the wireless card it says enabled for about 2 seconds then flips back to disabled. I've tried manually configuring it for connecting, turning off the ethernet card, etc. Any ideas?


Also, Whats a good bluetooth adapter that works with kubuntu?

[nobane]

Re: Problems with Broadcom wireless chip

I just found out that I have "Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)". Is my situation hopeless?

[nobane]

Re: Problems with Broadcom wireless chip

Nevermind, I just resolved it.

[roydxb]

Re: Problems with Broadcom wireless chip

Hi nobane,
How did you resolve it? I have a HP NX7400 with the Broadcom 4311 chip, Kubuntu sees this but can't enable it, I've tried ndiswrapper and Linuxant but still can't get this to work!
Any clues?
Regards,
roydxb

[GlaserCrew]

Re: Problems with Broadcom wireless chip

Nobane,

I see many posts like your. People figure it out. How did you do this and how did you get the installer installed? I can download to a thumbdrive I am completely new to this and if i cant figure it out I will simply give up this is not worth this much headache here. Feel like I am wassting my time with a OS that is still going through growing pains. Maybe best bet would be to simply wait till things improve or just not come back.

GlaserCrew

[Gotcha]

Re: Problems with Broadcom wireless chip

Add me nobone to this question. I managed to install ndiswrapper drivers but by no way did it receive any signals from the AP. not could i scan the wireless area by any means. So what's they key if you could give som links or a detailed describtion of how you solved it.

0000:00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 120f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at febfa000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]

Asus a6km.

[dannyl]

Re: Problems with Broadcom wireless chip

I have the same adapter in my Compaq laptop. It does work with Kubuntu. I forgot the url to the setup instructions, but I think I found it by typing in bcm4318 in the search block. It lead me to the howto on the ubuntu wiki.

Dan

p.s. it works with an upgraded bcm43xx, I didn't use ndiswrapper.

[Chamith]

Re: Problems with Broadcom wireless chip

maybe this site then? it's worked for me on a Dell 600m. very easy

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185174

[krazy]

Re: Problems with Broadcom wireless chip

I'm currently running feisty, using a 4318 rev 2, and used pretty much this process to install a driver (use ndiswrapper from the repos, it's saves installation headaches!):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...ndiswrapper%29

Apparently now (in feisty) fwcutter will download the correct firmware for your wireless:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=343383

[Boooooo]

Re: Problems with Broadcom wireless chip

I am a newbie and i have the same problem described by nobane.
Can someone please tell me in simple world how to solve?
I always have to log in with windows for connecting to internet and asking for help here and then come back to linux

[visham]

Re: Problems with Broadcom wireless chip

I spent hours struggling with wireless... turned out all i needed was bcm43xx-fwcutter. Just go to adept package manager. Type fwcutter and request install. When prompted on whether u want to extract firmware or not, select yes. Reboot after installation, n ur set to go hope this helps..