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BT Voyager (Broadcom 4318) not connecting Ubuntu 7.10

Asked by jannen

Problem:
I have a BT Voyager wireless laptop card (same as Broadcom 4318 I believe) in my Acer Travelmate laptop. Im running Ubuntu 7.10.
I have gone through endless amount of forums and howto's but still wont connect to Internet.

The laptop card light is on, and in Network Manager I can see Ubutntu finding the BT Voyager Router (85% signal, and couple others which I believe are neighbours wireless signals).

The card & router works fine on my Windows 2000 Pro.

Is it a bug somewhere, to me it looks its no driver issue as it finds the signal?

I have used ndiswrapper / blacklisted things as told in the above forums, with no help. Im a total newbie as well though.

Maybe this helps:

janne@janne-laptop:~$ /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Please help!!!

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Dougie Richardson (dougierichardson) said : 		#1

Where did you obtain the Windows driver for ndiswrapper?

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jannen (janne-newyork) said : 		#2

From one of the posts in the Ubuntuforums. Should I reinstall it from somewhere else?

Thanks

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jannen (janne-newyork) said : 		#3

Continuing above: There was a link in one of the posts in the forums which I used. The laptop card comes with a CD but it only has an .exe file (which in Windows 2000 installes a piece of software), cant find the driver available on its own.

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naufal (musp-student) said : 		#4

Hello,I'm using notebook presario m2000 with broadcom 4318 (bcm4318) wireless device.
After trying for sometimes,I found a fastest way to activate my wireless.Even running with live cd in other machine which have same device.
1: download "bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu2_all.deb" from http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/pool/feisty-cafuego/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu2_all.deb
2: install that package
3: I waited 10 - 20 second ( according to speed of machine )
4: I typed at terminal "sudo modprobe bcm43xx"
n my wireless device work in excellent condition.
hope this help.....

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jannen (janne-newyork) said : 		#5

Thanks for the post. I tried that bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu2_all.deb file, but the installer just hangs, after 30 min just keeps installing. I tried second time reinstall
but error message says that the installation is still running, even after reboot! :/

Im not advanced user, but I think the driver I have must be working as the Network Manager picks the signal, even neightbours signals! THe problem is just
how to contact the internet...

Suggestions?

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naufal (musp-student) said : 		#6

Hello,
Try to download bcm4318.all.tar.gz from:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=197102&page=85

n then, extract the 'drivers-64.tar.gz' from the downloaded package to any folder you want...
go to -->System -->Administration -->Restricted drivers manager n then click on 'Firmware for Broadcom bcm43xx chipset family' to enable it...
the system want you to choose the 'driver'.
go n select BCMWL564.SYS from the folder that you extract the 'bcm4318.all.tar.gz'

I've tried it and it's work for me...
Hope this help...

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