drivers??

[sharkbait1687]

yeah, i;m new to this but i love it so far. can anyone help my find drivers and tell me how to install them? im looking for the the one to let my wireless work. and a card reader. thanx

[Unholy Moley]

Re: drivers??

It would help to know the exact name and model of your wireless card. There are some cards that have restricted drivers that you have to download (such as the Atheros cards with Madwifi) and there are some that simply have no drivers.

[sharkbait1687]

Re: drivers??

ha ha your right it would help if i knew the name.
i havent a clue. its for a HP. do you think that it would be on the HP site? or is there a site that i can go to to look at all the drivers? thanks for your help.

[mchuskie]

Re: drivers??

Post the output of the command "lspci". That will list all the PCI devices in your system, and we can work from there.

If the HP website had Linux drivers for your hardware, I would eat my laptop.

[sharkbait1687]

Re: drivers??

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 10)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Contro
ller ATI
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev 01)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTra nsport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Con troller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscella neous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5 955 (PCIE)
03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Cont roller (PHY/Link)
03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802. 11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
03:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
03:04.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
03:04.4 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/66 21/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller
03:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139 C+ (rev 10)

[SheeEttin]

Re: drivers??

03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

Well, I looked up Broadcom on Wikipedia to get the link to Broadcom's site, and noticed a section entitled "Problems with Linux":

Broadcom's wireless cards are known to have several problems with Linux. Users of these cards may have trouble setting them up in Linux. [1] Though now the Linux kernel (as of 2.6.17) does include an open-source driver for some of Broadcom's WiFi chipsets, it is a detection-only driver and requires the end-user to "rip" firmware from a Broadcom-supplied Windows driver. Users have reported that this often does not work.

Following link [1], one can reach this page, which lists the 4318 as unstable.

NdisWrapper apparently works with the Windows driver. NdisWrapper is in the repos, and the Windows driver is here. (To use it, you must add "noapic nolapic acpi=off" to your kernel command line, though.)

[Detonate]

Re: drivers??

This thread is how I got my Broadcom wirless working in my HP laptop. It works great now.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=405990

[dentist garret]

Re: drivers??

hi. im also new. dont know how to get a driver for my acer 4710z wlan modem. can someone help?