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April 1st, 2006 03:00
Braodcom Wireless problem (Inspiron 6000)
Hello, i have a Inspiron 6000 Laptop that i got in december, so it has a Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller for the wireless card, and i can't seem to get drivers installed in the console using ndiswrapper, it jsut doesn't work, or i cannot find the proper .inf file, so if someone could point me to either a full driver, with instructions, or an inf file i can use with ndiswrapper, it would be much appreciated!
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April 8th, 2006 22:00
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
it will say that the ndiswrapper is installed , now we are gonna be needing those 2 files i named above so if you havent downloaded them yet get them from the urls below :
wget http://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5.sys
wget http://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5a.inf
now go to the folder where you downloaded the .sys and the .inf to, in the terminal type this :
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf
the driver should install without any problems, to check if it was installed ok type :
ndiswrapper -l
it should give 1 error and 1 succesfull message (the message should be something like this below)
Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present
To start the module type :
sudo ndiswrapper
To let Ubuntu find the Wlan card type :
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
afterwards you type the following line to make sure that the wlan card will be started when you boot linux :
sudo ndiswrapper -m
In Dapper there is a different command you need to follow , type these lines to set it up :
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo rmmod bcm43xx
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
Now you can setup your Wlan by going to System --> Manage --> Network.