Wireless question: how to start fresh?

[v04OV8f8]

I've been trying for weeks now to get my wireless card to work. First I tried to use fwcutter43xx to get my built-in broadcom card to work. When that was unsuccessful I tried ndiswrapper - still no luck. Then I decided to just spare myself the aggravation and shell out some money for a new DLink DWL-G650 (Atheroes chip). Well guess what still no luck. The best I could do was no WEP, no MAC restrictions and then I was able to connect, but that's not acceptable. Based on other folk's success, this should be pretty straightforward.
Anyway at this point I was hoping some body has some advice on how to start fresh. How to clean out all wireless configs so that I basically start from a clean slate. Maybe fwcutter messed somehing up?
I tried to do that already, but I don't know enough about Linux wireless networking and maybe I've missed something obvious or maybe not so obvious. Anyway any input would be appreciated. I am quite desperate.

Cheers

(Read up on my wireless woes, if you care http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3083836.0)

[frizguru]

Re: Wireless question: how to start fresh?

Hey do not feel alone. I switched from Ubuntu to Kubuntu and had the same issue. IT took me a little over 2 weeks to figure it out and solve the issue with the retched BCM43xx wireless. Here is what you can do to get it working again.

Grab the ndiswrapper source files from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=93482
You want ndiswrapper-1.47

Working at command line
Code:

cd ~
mkdir ndiswrapper
cd ndiswrapper

Place the ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz inside this ~/ndiswrapper

To proceed
Code:

tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz
cd ndiswrapper-1.47
make distclean
make
sudo make install

Verify installation with
Code:

ndiswrapper -v

The output should be something like the following:
Code:

utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '1.9'
module details:
filename:    /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
version:    1.47
vermagic:    2.6.20-16-generic SMP mod_unload 586

Next create and place your Windows XP wireless driver into ~/driver:
Code:

cd ~
mkdir driver
cd driver

Ensuring the ***.sys and ***.inf file for the WinXP driver are in the~/driver directory (bcmwl5.inf):
Code:

sudo ndiswrapper -i *****.inf

Verify installation with:
Code:

ndiswrapper -l

Make sure no errors are reported and you get something like:
Quote:

bcmwl5: driver installed
device (14E4:4320) present

Ok, to insert the ndiswrapper module into the linux kernel:
Code:

sudo depmod -a

Ensure you dont get any errors when running this command. Then:
Code:

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

To verify there wasnt any errors:
Code:

dmesg

and look for something like:
Quote:

ndiswrapper version version loaded

Next lets make an alias for wlan0 associated with ndiswrapper
Code:

sudo ndiswrapper -m

And ensure that the ndiswrapper module is loaded at boot:
Code:

echo "ndiswrapper" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

You may also need to do the following if you are running fwcutter:

sudo kedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

and add the following to the bottom of the list:

blacklist bcm43xx

I recommend rebooting at this time.
Code:

sudo shutdown -r now

If this does not work adn you are trying to connect to a WPA netowrk, you may also need to run the following:
CODE:

sudo apt-get remove kwalletmanager

Let me know how this works and if you have any issues. I will see if I can help you through it.