Can't Get Broadcom Wireless Chipset working

[Proton]

Hello all. I am new to Linux and just found a distro (Ubuntu) that suits my needs. I have pretty much everything working except the wireless connection. I have a Broadcom chipset which has no Linux support and am having the hardest time trying to get it working. I've installed and uninstalled the ndiswrapper several times and to no avail. When I run the ifconfig command, it says that power management is off. I think that has something to do with it. If anyone could help me out, I'd really appreciate it. I refuse to go back to Windows and if I can't get the intergrated adapter working I will buy a PC card adapter. I really don't want to do this though as I am in college and am strapped for cash (I'm sure many have been there).

TIA,

Proton

[nabis]

Is it PCI or PCMCIA card.
Ndiswrapper should take care of your card.
There is some (outdated) page of my setup: http://freewebs.com/nabis/wifi.html
(you can skip the compilation part)

Post what your dmesg says. In my case it's:

PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 02:0d.0
ndiswrapper: using irq 5
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:cc:66:33:00:11 using driver bcmwl5
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, AES/CCMP
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Motorola,09/24/2003, 3.40.20.0) added

[Proton]

I just switched to MEPIS. The wireless chipset is recognized now. Thanks. :D

[Icarus]

:rolleyes:

[GmarAppledude]

I just switched to MEPIS. The wireless chipset is recognized now. Thanks. :D

I had exactly the same problem (including powering the card) and found exactly the same solution (Mepis). Go Figure.

[The Grum]

I got my belkin wifi card (broadcom chip) working under Ubuntu Breezy after following this guide on Ubuntuforums

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25683

The only problem I had was step 3.

replace:


for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile
done


with:


for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do
sudo gedit $conffile
done


and manually change all instances of "RadioState 1" to "RadioState 0".

[GmarAppledude]

Many thanks "the Grum" (if that is your real name lol :) I am sure that will be very handy in the future. I kind of knew that time radiostate was involved but it was/would be beyond my grasp to fix it. I am sure that link will help a lot of people. Suprised I didn't see that guide myself though.

[mmills]

what broadcom chipset are you using?
if you do a search on my name I think I have a post here thats very detailed, but its for ubuntu 5.04, but the same works in 5.10 breezy.

in case you want to change distros.

matt