Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu wireless with Broadcom drivers and ndiswrapper

From: John Pugh (jpugh@novell.com)
Date: Sun Nov 13 2005 - 08:44:04 EST


>>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 8:57 am, in message
<200511120857.41132.vzd1s11k@verizon.net>, vzd1s11k@verizon.net wrote:

> On Friday 11 November 2005 11:49 pm, Keith Lelacheur wrote:
>> Good evening sluggers,
>>
>> I finally got around to installing ubuntu on my new laptop (Presario
r4000,
>> Athlon 64, Ati radion 200m, yada, yada, yada). After a little
tweaking got
>> the video working and everything else works great with one
exception, the
>> wireless card. It is a broadcom based 802.11b/g chipset. I followed
the
>> setup instructions I found at this wiki:
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowToSetUpNdiswrapper
>>
>> and everthing seems to be workingbut I can never pull a dhcp
address. Here
>> is the output of the ifup wlan0 command:
>> Keith
>
> I have the same problem. It is not only in Ubuntu but also Suse
10.0.
> Something got broken as i worked in Suse 9.3 and 10.0 beta as well as
Ubuntu
>
> 5.04. I am getting frustrated with it. If you are willing to pay
for a
> driver, Linuxant's driver loader does work. That tells me that it is
not a
> hardware or driver issue but a ndiswrapper issue.
>
> Please keep me informed.
>
> Joe Brandt

For SUSE 10.0 open a bugzilla "issue" (or at least search it to see if
it's been addressed in the 10.1 rc's).

JP
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