Microsoft's revenge to linux is wireless cards.
Broadcom is a secretly microsoft owned company that makes cards that don't work in linux.
The most spastic thing is that you can get your card working in a previous release of your favourite distribution after performing various hacks, search the web , deciding who is closer to the solution, but not on the new release .
update after half an hour:
Finally got it working - again - .
On a dell latitude d830 with a Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01) wireless card and mint 5.0 elyssa (based on ubuntu 8.04 hardy).
Seemed that neither ndiswrapper was necessary for rev 01 (issue a lspci command to find your model).
I installed through the hardware drivers gui tool the driver for broadcom.
The caveat was that despite the wi-fi led being on , the bluetooth led should be on too for the wireless to work.
So don't forget to open the bluetooth switch on the left side of the laptop.
Broadcom is a secretly microsoft owned company that makes cards that don't work in linux.
The most spastic thing is that you can get your card working in a previous release of your favourite distribution after performing various hacks, search the web , deciding who is closer to the solution, but not on the new release .
update after half an hour:
Finally got it working - again - .
On a dell latitude d830 with a Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01) wireless card and mint 5.0 elyssa (based on ubuntu 8.04 hardy).
Seemed that neither ndiswrapper was necessary for rev 01 (issue a lspci command to find your model).
I installed through the hardware drivers gui tool the driver for broadcom.
The caveat was that despite the wi-fi led being on , the bluetooth led should be on too for the wireless to work.
So don't forget to open the bluetooth switch on the left side of the laptop.
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από tazman 2008-07-30 02:29
Well you found a solution to your problem but i have a question for you and i hope you can answer it to me:
I have a Broadcom wireless card for my desktop and although it seems that it's working fine and detecting many wireless points near my house i can't connect to any of them with or without security!
Please if you or anyone else in here knows something that i can do to solve this tell me!
I'm using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 if this helps you more!
Thank you!
I have a Broadcom wireless card for my desktop and although it seems that it's working fine and detecting many wireless points near my house i can't connect to any of them with or without security!
Please if you or anyone else in here knows something that i can do to solve this tell me!
I'm using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 if this helps you more!
Thank you!
από 
thk 2008-07-30 12:25
thk 2008-07-30 12:25
If card detects networks then .. it is working!
Test your card with a wifi router - access point that you know you can connect to. What we discovered the other day was that vivodi routers for example do not let you connect to their wireless interface if you have not connected to the wired before.
Commands that may be prove useful in this situation are
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart # to restart the network from command line and see any diagnostic messages there.
ifdown , ifup # to stop or start one interface e.g. you can try to stop the ethernet interface with sudo ifdown eth0
ifconfig #to see what ip address your card has or obtained through dhcp
ping # of course to test that you can ping your gateway
route # to see the gateway assigned through dhcp
Test your card with a wifi router - access point that you know you can connect to. What we discovered the other day was that vivodi routers for example do not let you connect to their wireless interface if you have not connected to the wired before.
Commands that may be prove useful in this situation are
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart # to restart the network from command line and see any diagnostic messages there.
ifdown , ifup # to stop or start one interface e.g. you can try to stop the ethernet interface with sudo ifdown eth0
ifconfig #to see what ip address your card has or obtained through dhcp
ping # of course to test that you can ping your gateway
route # to see the gateway assigned through dhcp
από 
tazman 2008-07-31 19:23
tazman 2008-07-31 19:23
Thanks for the answer thk and i look it up and tell you what i 've found!
από tazman 2008-08-02 18:57
tazman 2008-08-02 18:57
I finaly got it working by just updating my Hardy and it's ok now!
Thanks for the help thk!
Thanks for the help thk!
από tazman 2008-08-02 19:01
tazman 2008-08-02 19:01
And something else i would like your help with is how can i make this wifi connection permanent and make it run not only in window mode but also in the root mode???
από thk 2008-08-05 03:13
thk 2008-08-05 03:13
what u mean permanent , to start automatically at boot?
από tazman 2008-08-06 21:54
tazman 2008-08-06 21:54
Yes thats what i mean! i've tried doing something with this guide : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=684495 but still when i boot and start on root it doesn't connect!
από thk 2008-08-07 00:24
thk 2008-08-07 00:24
edit /etc/network/interfaces
and add a line in the form:
auto wlan0
this depends by the name of your wireless device , maybe it is assigned as eth1 , so you ll have to add a line: auto eth1. To see the name of it, while the wireless is on issue :
ifconfig
and add a line in the form:
auto wlan0
this depends by the name of your wireless device , maybe it is assigned as eth1 , so you ll have to add a line: auto eth1. To see the name of it, while the wireless is on issue :
ifconfig
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