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installing wireless driver, ndiswrapper 1.47 - error2

Asked by doobey

Background: Dell Inspiron 1300 w/ broadcom 4318 wireless card
using community doc: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Broadcom_BCM4318_%5BAirForce_One_54g%5D

downloaded or copied ndiswrapper-1.47, bcmwl5a.inf, bcmwl5.inf, wicd_1.2.7-all.deb

did the following commands with results:
sudo apt-get remove network-manager network-manager-gnome (WORKED)
echo 'blacklist bcm4318' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (WORKED)
sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 (WORKED)
tar -xzvf ndiswrapper-<version>.tar.gz (WORKED)
cd ndiswrapper-1.46/ (WORKED)
make (after a lot of working, ERROR 2)
sudo make install (after a lot of working, ERROR 2)
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf (NO SUCH COMMAND, or something like that)

the final steps are moot, even though the wicd network manager did work, driver was never installed

i did it twice, same results. I am a total nubie. thanks! ~d

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doobey (p0o9i8u) said : 		#1

I got a lot of this kind of thing when command "make" failed. should I ndiswrapper in a specific dierctory?
loadndisdriver.c:15:20: error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:16:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:17:19: error: errno.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:18:20: error: string.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:19:20: error: libgen.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:21:22: error: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:23:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:24:23: error: sys/ioctl.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:25:22: error: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:26:20: error: unistd.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:27:19: error: fcntl.h: No such file or directory

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#2

Hello,

To compile programs you need the build-essential package, please type this in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install build-essential

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#3

Of course you need to have internet working to install build-essential.

If you can't connect to internet directly you will need to copy some packages manually.

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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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