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Broadcomm wireless 802.11 b/g set up

Asked by lawndart

How do I setup/ install my wireless connection on a Acer Aspire 5020 with a Broadcomm 802.11b/g built in card? I am a new user to Linux and I have tried some command lines in the termial screen .
I have my XP Home wireless setup and GTG. I am running WEP hexidecimal encription on my wireless router, a Linksys BEFW11S4.

However, as stated I am a new user , plse keep it simple.

Thanks.

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SageMassa (jedd.bissegger) said : 		#1

I have a Acer Aspire 3004 that I am replying to you on via Wireless.

 Ndiswrapper for Broadcom 43xx wireless chipset

* The Broadcom 43xx (bcm43xx) wireless chipset is one of the most common chipsets, so special scripts have been written for it.
*Ensure you have multiverse and universe sources available.
* Only follow this if you have a bcm43xx device. To check in the Terminal type:

lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation

If it displays a line similar to this,

0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

you have a Broadcom wireless chipset. Please proceed with the instructions.

    * Download the driver to the desktop (the Firefox default, so if you haven't changed it, that's where it went/will go).
       Found at http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=30908&d=1177587401

Note - you will have to register to get this file. Registration is free so please don't report a broken link.

    * In a terminal type

cd ~/Desktop (or wherever you downloaded the file)
tar -xf bcm4318*.tar.gz
sudo ./ndiswrapper_setup_Feisty

Your wireless chipset should now work. Try rebooting if you have problems. Please see this thread if you have problems: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=197102&highlight=install+ndiswrapper

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Juraj Lukac (hrasko) said : 		#2

Hi,
I have HP nx6325 notebook and also the Broadcom wifi card (chip). It was a bit tricky to make it work althought I read a lot of forums. At least I worked it out with ndisrapper, but I had to download the latest version of ndiswrapper (1.43 at that time). The next thing was I had to to tell wpa_supplicant to handle it as a wext driver. So with ndiwsrapper the command line was:
host~# wpa_supplicant -ieth1 -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Now I use the wifi connection with WPA encryption.

And one more thing: I uninstaled all those Gnome network apples, because I couldn't connect to both wifi and LAN with them. The Gnome applet allways has disconnected one connection when connected the other. Now with command line scripts I can be connected via LAN and wifi at he same time ;)

Juraj

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lawndart (cnmnicho) said : 		#3

The msg fm SageMassa on the first line in terminal client, I get the following error msg;

bash: cd~?Desktop: No such file or directory

I have downloaded the file from the link supplied and I get teh same results. What am I doing wrong?

Plse help this frustrated newbie.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#4

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