[Solved]Boradcom BCM4318 problem.

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I've been searching around quite a bit to try and get the answer to this. I have a feeling that this has been staring me in the face but i'm not sure.

system specs are.

HP dv5224nr laptop
AMD 64 processor
1 gig ram
80 gig HD
Broadcom BCM4318 chipset
running a brand new install of Kubuntu 10.04

Here is the ishw -C network

lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
 *-network:0       
    description: Network controller
    product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
    vendor: Broadcom Corporation
    physical id: 2
    bus info: pci@0000:06:02.0
    version: 02
    width: 32 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: bus_master
    configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
    resources: irq:21 memory:c0204000-c0205fff
 *-network:1
    description: Ethernet interface
    product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
    vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    physical id: 6
    bus info: pci@0000:06:06.0
    logical name: eth0
    version: 10
    serial: (Mac Address edited out)
    width: 32 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
    configuration: broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 ip=192.168.1.5 latency=128 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes
    resources: irq:22 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:c020a400-c020a4ff
 *-network DISABLED
    description: Wireless interface
    physical id: 1
    logical name: wlan0
    serial: (Mac address removed as well)
    capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
    configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

the *-network DISABLED has me wondering.

I did ndiswrapper from from here and stopped at step 3 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...f#Instructions

the wifi worked just fine without any tweaking in ubuntu 10.04 and fedora 13 so this has kind of thrown me.

If you would like any other info please ask i'm very new to linux as a whole but i'm starting to get it (kind of sort of but not really)

[claydoh]

Re: Boradcom BCM4318 problem.

You need to use the Hardware Drivers tool to download, extract and install the needed firmware. You can find that under Applications -- System

Or install the package b43-fwcutter via apt-get, which basically what the Driver tool is doing via a GUI.

That link you are following is for feisty, which is 3 years old (7.04), and much has changed since then

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx

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Re: Boradcom BCM4318 problem.

Well i figured i missed something stupid, and Hey I was right! Thank you for replying i know these topics must get old.

The messed up part was that after i had figured out what i did wrong (surprisingly before i saw the post) I think messing around with ndiswrapper messed up my whole network manager. That made it so i no longer could use my eth0 for some reason.

i ended up reinstalling kubuntu and then using fw-cutter and now everything works fine.

thank you again for taking the time to bonk me on the head.