Feisty Fawn Install problem on Dell Inspiron E1705

[ralphdewitt]

Hi all:
When I run the live CD everything excepet WI seems to work. How ever when I install Feisty Fawn on my Dell Inspiron E1705 the system fails to boot with a error message about bcm43XX.microcode.5 etc not being installed. I have the mini wifi card installed which is identified as a Broadcom Corp. pci controller Device 4311. Is there a way around this problem. Did not have this problem with Edgy. Getting Wi Fi to work is another problem. Can someone help.

Ralph

[IgnorantGuru]

Re: Feisty Fawn Install problem on Dell Inspiron E1705

Are you sure the microcode error is where it stops? Usually that error will not cause it to stop booting. May be incidental to your boot problem.

You could try blacklisting that driver if you can access the filesystem another way (liveCD or burn a copy of SystemRescueCD www.sysresccd.org):

EDIT FILE: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Add line: blacklist bcm43xx

Here's a howto for Broadcomm
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=285809

For me it boiled down to this

#Disable kernel driver
pico /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
	Add line: blacklist bcm43xx

Adept: install ndiswrapper-utils

#Obtain bcmwl5.sys and .inf driver from Windows folder or elsewhere
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
	Should return driver and hardware present
pico /etc/modules
	Add line: ndiswrapper
	#This causes kernel to load ndiswrapper automatically, otherwise use modprobe ndiswrapper

#Reboot - eth1 should now be present and working