Ndiswrapper should be the last choice there are non-free wireless drivers available for broadcom...I got broadcom wireless network cards work in "fedora 9" by installing "broadcom-wl" package from rpmfusion-nonfree repository... But I don't know about ubuntu.......Good luck
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Akarsh Simha <akarshsi...@gmail.com>wrote: > > What wireless card ? Can you post the output of sudo lspci -v here ? > > I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 n-Series laptop (Yes, one of those few > laptops in the market which come without Winblows installed). > > The wireless card is a Broadcomm 43xx and the corresponding kernel > module is bcm43xx. When I last attempted to get my network card > working, the module wouldn't bind to the device for some reason. > > However, my friends have got these working, although I don't know what > he did. Some quick google results: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=bcm43xx+wireless+howto&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 > > They all seem to suggest NDIS wrapper, although there is an > alternative native module. > > Regards > Akarsh > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with > "unsubscribe <password> <address>" > in the subject or body of the message. > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows. <-Fighting 4 Freedom-> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
