[dundee] Broadcom wireless chipsets in laptops

[Gordon Dunlop]

Hi Bill,

For minimal mucking about with Ubuntu,  after installation download 
bcm43xx-fwcutter and network manager via ethernet cable to router. 
Update everything (there were bugs in network manager),  reboot and it 
should have it picking up. remember to have the network manager in 
roaming mode, and with the network manager by right clicking the icon in 
your start-up panel you can add a new wireless connection with WPA 
support. The way of doing it at command line mode is here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1071920&mode=linear

another user gives his answer

http://davidwatson.org/2007/05/broadcom-4306-on-feisty-fawn.html

This is what I did on my laptop to give perfect wireless networking in 
Linux Mint (Feisty Fawn edition) on my laptop.
I am not familiar with Ubuntu, as I am a Fedora man - I will run the 
wrath of Arron for being associated with Linux Corporations, just wait 
when I will wear my Redhat T-shirt,  red stetson  and  my two six-barrel 
revolvers  (Ha! Ha!).

Gordon




William Cameron wrote:
> Having just pulled my finger out and reinstalled Ubuntu on my laptop, 
> I now find myself in a broadcom dilema again.  Arron and I, ok mainly 
> Arron, figured out why I was having issued on the uadwifi with 
> wpa_supplicant and ndis.. and reverted me back to broadcom drivers, 
> only to find there were open source one available, and then it somehow 
> worked.. well back to the drawing board for me, as I try to remember 
> exactly what was did.. as just now i'm back to ethernet cable to my 
> router.
>
> oh, on another note, I crazily joined the kernel mailing list, i've 
> been signed up for about an hour so far and my inbox is going 
> mental...  finally figured out how to set up a redirect to dump the 
> mail into a sub folder, the from line is the name of teh person 
> sending it, not the kernel mailing list its forwarded thru, like the 
> tay-lug!! sorry, been having a blond moment all week, see you in 
> glasgow for teh eben moglen talk! or is it edinburgh.. anyway..
>
> Cheers,
> William
>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:28:08 +0100
> > From: gordon at zubenel.freeserve.co.uk
> > To: dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > CC:
> > Subject: [dundee] Broadcom wireless chipsets in laptops
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Some people have been getting problems with Broadcom chipsets in their
> > wireless cards for their laptops. It should be no problem now with
> > modern distros, the Linux kernel has drivers for the Broadcom
> > chipset since kernel 2.6.17. The main thing is to install the broadcom
> > firmware which has been reversed engineered. The difference in drivers
> > and firmware is that firmware is the software that allows the hardware
> > to operate and drivers is the software that allows the operating
> > system to control it, similar to digital TV working in Linux. A good
> > explanation is given here:
> >
> > http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/293
> >
> > Most Linux distributions have a version of bcm43xx-fwcutter, a package
> > that has the Broadcom chipsets firmware , if they don't you can 
> download
> > from here:
> >
> > http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4547
> >
> > All it does is to put all the Broadcom chipsets firmware into
> > /lib/firmware and you should be up and running.
> >
> > Gordon
> >
> >
> >
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