Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Thursday 02 July 2009 05:09:51 JoeHill wrote: > > I first tried to get wireless working following this page on the Debian > > Wiki: > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx > > > > but then found out that my particular device was not supported by that > > driver. > > > > I then tried the tutorial on this page: > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper > > > > I have a Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03), so I got the > > driver from HP, the vendor of this notebook. It is installed, and shows up > > in ndisgtk, but shows 'Hardware present: no'. > > > > I installed wicd to see if that would at least let me see more of what was > > going on, but although it says it's running, when I try to access the wicd > > network manager, nothing opens. Gnome network manager shows no wireless > > connection. > > > > Any tips really greatly appreciated. > > > > -- > > J > > > A Linux driver for the Broadcom bcm43xx wireless chips. > Broadcom never released details about these chips. So this driver is based > upon reverse engineered specifications. > > This driver was included into the Linux kernel since 2.6.17-rc2. > > Another branch of this driver, based on the Devicescape 802.11 Stack, which > should be the future in Linux wireless support and which supports advanced > capabilities (namely, full WPA support), can be found in the wireless-dev > tree: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git
I would like to try this, but I am completely unfamiliar with how to approach this. Is this similar to subversion? How to I retrieve this code? > The bcm43xx-fwcutter tool (required - see documentation for further info) can > install with aptitude. > So remove ndiswrapper and try again. > Give some detail from ifconfig, iwconfig.. I already have the fwcutter tool installed from previous attempts, and I've removed ndiswrapper. ifconfig and iwconfig both show no wireless devices. Many thanks! -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
