[Deaf-lug] My network settings - FAO Joe

[JGJones]

I know it's over your head - don't worry but it does tell me what I want 
to know...the 2nd bit is what we need to know what wireless you have:

 >        description: Wireless interface
 >        product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN 
Controller
 >        vendor: Broadcom Corporation

A quick look on Ubuntu forum show this one that works for you:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1725395&postcount=3

I'll edit it so that it's easier to understand though. I do not know 
what you need to do to bring up the Run dialog in Gnome (as I customise 
mine long ago and can't remember the default) so we will use Terminal 
here again (sorry...I'll prefer to avoid that for you!)

In terminal type:

sudo gedit

Enter your password.

In gedit (it's a Gnome text editor) go to File > Open and go to 
/etc/modprobe.d and open the blacklist file

In 'blacklist' file at bottom add this:

blacklist bcm43xx

Save the file and close gedit.

Now go to System > Administration > Synaptics Package Mangaer (if you 
want to use Terminal to do this, type sudo synaptic)

Search for ndiswrapper-utils and right click on it and select "Mark it 
for installation" Now click on Apply in toolbar and it will then install it.

Close Synaptics when it's done.

Now you'll need to download the Dell driver for wireless for Windows XP

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=WW1&osl=EN&catid=5&impid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=INSPIRON1300%2FB130&hidos=WW1&hidlang=en

(that link should take you to the network drivers for Inspiron 1300 on 
Windows XP)

When you have downloaded the exe file, right click on the file and 
select the option "Extract Here" - it'll extract the contents into a new 
folder (which is named after the file)

Now let's go back to Terminal...

I hope you remember how to use DOS etc...

You need to change to the folder where the files are extracted to so use 
the commend "cd" and directory name to change to where the file is for 
example:

cd Desktop will change to your desktop folder and so on. If you have 
trouble with this, let me know.

Once you are in the extracted driver folder do this command:

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

Then you need to check that it is installed properly by running this 
command:

ndiswrapper -l

which should display the following if correctly installed:

Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present

Then run this command next:

ndiswrapper -m

Now reboot your laptop so that it get loaded.

(This illustrate why Ubuntu need a nice easy GUI for using ndiswrapper 
instead of making newbies use the Terminal...I think OpenSUSE have a GUI 
for installing Windows driver via ndiswrapper now?)

Hope that helped.

Paul Johnston wrote:
> As requested.  Does this help?!!  To be honest all this is over my head.
> 
> No sign of Centrino sticker.
> 
> paul at paul-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
> [sudo] password for paul:
>   *-network:0             
>        description: Ethernet interface
>        product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
>        vendor: Broadcom Corporation
>        physical id: 0
>        bus info: pci at 0000:02:00.0
>        logical name: eth0
>        version: 02
>        serial: 00:14:22:8f:5c:58
>        size: 10MB/s
>        capacity: 100MB/s
>        width: 32 bits
>        clock: 33MHz
>        capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
>        configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=1.01 duplex=half latency=64 link=no module=b44 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10MB/s
>   *-network:1 DISABLED
>        description: Wireless interface
>        product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
>        vendor: Broadcom Corporation
>        physical id: 3
>        bus info: pci at 0000:02:03.0
>        logical name: eth1
>        version: 02
>        serial: 00:14:a5:56:11:58
>        width: 32 bits
>        clock: 33MHz
>        capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless
>        configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.22-14-generic latency=64 link=no module=bcm43xx multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g
> paul at paul-laptop:~$ 
> 
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