bcm43xx upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 im a noob

[Guest]

i recently upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04. in 7.10 my bcm4318 wifi card was up and running. i used bcm ffcutter to install the drivers. upon upgrading to 8.04 my wifi card is no longer working. i checked to make sure that the bcm ffcutter file was still loaded and it is. help please. Ive been looking around trying to find a fix with no prevail.

i have a gateway mx3215
running kubuntu 8.04

[stealthbanana]

Re: bcm43xx upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 im a noob

Its a new kernel, 2.6.24 from 2.6.22, so you will have to recut the firmware for the new kernel.

I had it running under ndiswrapper, but hardy did it all for me on a dist upgrade, check the restricted driver thingy.

[Espionage724]

Re: bcm43xx upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 im a noob

I found that for best results, the ndiswrapper driver with the Broadcom driver off the acer europe website works better then the firmware driver way.

Ndiswrapper Driver
- 54MB speed
- Allows you to connect to far away routers
- Light isn't constantly flashing

Firmware Driver
- 24MB speed
- Works best at close-range routers
- Light is flashing when data is being transfered

[Guest]

Re: bcm43xx upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 im a noob

thank you so very much. i am up and running yet again.