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From: David on 23 Apr 2008 17:05 "Paul Sherwin" <bogus(a)bogus.com> wrote in message news:fuo5tl$alc$1$8302bc10(a)news.demon.co.uk... > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:46:11 +0100, David wrote: > >> Running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on a desktop PC using (or trying to) a >> Linksys WMP54G PCI wifi card (that uses a Broadcom BCM4306 chipset.) >> Trying to connect to a Netgear DG834 adsl router. It works using windows >> xp just fine. >> It doesn't in Ubuntu no matter what I seem to do, althugh it's fine >> using a wired connection. > > David, having read through this thread I think you are spending more time > on this than is worthwhile. Just buy a cheap USB wifi dongle from an ebay > seller for about a fiver. This will almost certainly use the zd1211rw > kernel module and will Just Work. Life's too short :-) > > Paul Hi Paul, I hate it when some thing that is "supposed" to work doesn't but I think you are correct. Some folk here have been very helpful but the bottom line seems to be that unless one picks the right wifi device it can be hell. I do have an AsusTek WL-167g USB stick (uses rt73 drivers) which again is supposed to work but I haven't had any luck with it either so far. Tried that tonight, along with another PC even, but the same old c**p. Okay...I'll take your advise.... so now the question is do you (or anyone else here) have the name of a particular model of usb stick that uses said kernel module and that you know works well with Ubuntu Hardy. I did a quick google and came up with a few candidates but also saw several bug reports even with zd1211rw and Ubuntu. So I assume that it's not just a matter of what basic chip set each manufacturer uses but also how well they implement their design. Cheers Dave
From: David on 23 Apr 2008 17:54 "David" <dave(a)antispam.invalid> wrote in message news:480fa4a3$0$26085$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk... > > "Paul Sherwin" <bogus(a)bogus.com> wrote in message > news:fuo5tl$alc$1$8302bc10(a)news.demon.co.uk... >> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:46:11 +0100, David wrote: >> >>> Running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on a desktop PC using (or trying to) a >>> Linksys WMP54G PCI wifi card (that uses a Broadcom BCM4306 chipset.) >>> Trying to connect to a Netgear DG834 adsl router. It works using windows >>> xp just fine. >>> It doesn't in Ubuntu no matter what I seem to do, althugh it's fine >>> using a wired connection. >> >> David, having read through this thread I think you are spending more time >> on this than is worthwhile. Just buy a cheap USB wifi dongle from an ebay >> seller for about a fiver. This will almost certainly use the zd1211rw >> kernel module and will Just Work. Life's too short :-) >> >> Paul > > Hi Paul, > I hate it when some thing that is "supposed" to work doesn't but I think > you are correct. > Some folk here have been very helpful but the bottom line seems to be that > unless one picks the right wifi device it can be hell. > > I do have an AsusTek WL-167g USB stick (uses rt73 drivers) which again is > supposed to work but I haven't had any luck with it either so far. > Tried that tonight, along with another PC even, but the same old c**p. > > Okay...I'll take your advise.... so now the question is do you (or anyone > else here) have the name of a particular model of usb stick that uses said > kernel module and that you know works well with Ubuntu Hardy. > I did a quick google and came up with a few candidates but also saw > several bug reports even with zd1211rw and Ubuntu. So I assume that it's > not just a matter of what basic chip set each manufacturer uses but also > how well they implement their design. > > Cheers > Dave > Just got wifi working using my USB stick (AsusTek WL-167g) this is using Gutsy and another PC so it's back to the original PC and Heron later to check it will work there. But SUCCESS. Seemed to work using bog standard network-manager and after doing: sudo ifdown wlan0 then ifup wlan0 Still interested in any recommendations from those who have "real" experience of actual PCI cards (prefer those) or USB sticks that work with Ubuntu 8.04. Thanks for the input. cheers dave
From: David on 23 Apr 2008 17:58 "Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger(a)lwfinger.net> wrote in message news:wfLPj.237149$cQ1.60732(a)bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > David wrote: >> >> I searched for a file main.c but can't find one. >> When I search for b43 I get these results >> /lib/firmware/b43 >> and several (5 in all) under >> /lib/modules/2.6.24/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43 >> and also /usr/share/b43-fwcutter >> b43-legacy etc >> >> But nowhere can I find a "main.c" file >> Am I being stupid here? >> Cheers > > Did you rebuild the b43 driver? Was that from source, or did you just link > the b43 objects against your kernel? If from source, the file should be in > the directory with the source files. If you linked from object files, > please get me the ls output from that directory. > > Larry > > Larry, as I am a novice at linux and wifi so have been struggling to understand all this and as I had spent too much time trying to get this to work I decided to use a USB wifi stick I had and it worked. I do appreciate your help however. Cheers Dave
From: Larry Finger on 23 Apr 2008 20:27 David wrote: > Larry, as I am a novice at linux and wifi so have been struggling to > understand all this and as I had spent too much time trying to get this to > work I decided to use a USB wifi stick I had and it worked. I do appreciate > your help however. > Cheers I'm a little disappointed that you bailed out at this point. I think we were close to a solution, but I guess you have other things to do. We'll just have to wait for some other user to have the same difficulty. I have one further question. In your very first message, you stated "Tried latest "restricted" Broadcom drivers in Ubuntu and even compiled them myself to check." Where did you get those drivers. I looked all over the Ubuntu web site without success. I have even loaded Ubuntu 8.04-rc onto my machine, but I don't find anything for "restricted" Broadcom anywhere in the package manager. Larry
From: David on 23 Apr 2008 20:53
"Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger(a)lwfinger.net> wrote in message news:_tQPj.238410$cQ1.179447(a)bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > David wrote: >> Larry, as I am a novice at linux and wifi so have been struggling to >> understand all this and as I had spent too much time trying to get this >> to work I decided to use a USB wifi stick I had and it worked. I do >> appreciate your help however. >> Cheers > > I'm a little disappointed that you bailed out at this point. I think we > were close to a solution, but I guess you have other things to do. We'll > just have to wait for some other user to have the same difficulty. > > I have one further question. In your very first message, you stated "Tried > latest "restricted" Broadcom drivers in Ubuntu and even compiled them > myself to check." Where did you get those drivers. I looked all over the > Ubuntu web site without success. I have even loaded Ubuntu 8.04-rc onto my > machine, but I don't find anything for "restricted" Broadcom anywhere in > the package manager. > > Larry Hi Larry, It's 1:33am here in the UK and another late night. It was after 3am when I gave up last night. Hence my chickening out and deciding to try to get my USB stick to work. Which it now does and I've tried it in 2 different machines now with 7.10 and 8.04rd versions of Ubuntu. But back to Broadcom. I agree I was not clear in describing what I had done in my first post...mainly being a noob and npt knowing the terminology too well. What I did was initially use "b43" that comes with Ubuntu 8.04 (which they variously term restricted or proprietary drivers.) If you install the PCI card they pop up in System>Administration>Hardware Drivers. When that didn't work I found http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43 and used their recipe: --------------------------------------- If you are using the b43 driver from linux-2.6.24, follow these instructions. Use version 011 of b43-fwcutter. Download, extract the b43-fwcutter tarball and build it: wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2 tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2 cd b43-fwcutter-011 make cd .. Use version 4.80.53.0 of Broadcom's proprietary driver. Download and extract the firmware from this driver tarball: export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware" wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o ----------------------------- Since getting wifi running with the USB stick I did just venture back and installed the Broadcom card back into another PC running windows XP and found that I couldn't get it to run on that either. So now I am wondering if the card went bad during all my experimentation! If after all that you still would like me to try to get it working then I am willing to give it a last shot, especially as you have been so helpful to me. But you'll need to spell out what you want me to do. Please just let me know. Thanks again. Dave (going to bed now) |