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Wireless USB adapter Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1690:0715 Askey Computer Corp. [hex] Name: Voyager 1055 Laptop 802.11g Adapter [Broadcom 4320] not working in Ubuntu 11.10

Asked by James Wales

Hi

I'm trying to install the Broadcom Driver onto a 11.10 Ubuntu Machine. I've followed the online Tutorials with no success. Here is what I did.

Command "lsusb" to get the driver info:

"Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1690:0715 Askey Computer Corp. [hex] Name: Voyager 1055 Laptop 802.11g Adapter [Broadcom 4320]"

Installed the packages "firmware-b43-installer" and "b43-fwcutter". Checked "blacklist.conf" to ensure bcm43xx was not black-listed, which it was - commented out the line. At this point the docs state driver would be available for activation from "Additional Drivers" Windows on restart. After Rebooting Device Driver not listed. Perhaps I missed something? I probed a little further and attempted to load the module (modprobe b43), which was a scucess, not sure what this mean. Command "lsmod | grep b43" output is:

b43 318816 0
ssb 50682 1 b43
mac80211 393421 1 b43
cfg80211 172427 3 rndis_wlan,b43,mac80211

Thanks

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Best Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#1

Looking at http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 , looks likt your usb 4320 is not supported by the b43 driver, but needs the rndis_wlan driver. See http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/rndis_wlan
I'm not familiar with this driver, but the general approach is to black the b43 (and blacklist the b43xx again too), see if the rndis_wlan driver gets picked up, if not, force it either by adding it to /etc/modules file, or since that may cause problems with getting wpa running, adding an explicit modprobe rndis_wlan to /etc/rc.local. Try wicd instead of network-manager if connections take too long or frequently drop.

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James Wales (apprentice321) said : 		#2

Thanks Ubfan, that solved my question.