Though I much prefer Debian for the server platform, I have found
Ubuntu "just works" in a very nice way on my laptop. I recently
installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop (with Broadcom
43xx) and had wi-fi working with minimal fuss. The "restricted
drivers manager" handled downloading and installing the Broadcom driver.
FMI: http://ubuntu1501.blogspot.com/
On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:32 AM, Scarletdown wrote:
I've been futiley attempting to get the onboard wireless working on my
laptop, and recently went through some instructions in a post over at
linuxquestions.org. Despite going through the instructions step by
step, wireless still does not work, with either the onboard wireless
controller or the PCMCIA one I have for experimenting with. The on
board
(eth1) shows in lspci as:
05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
The other one (eth2) is:
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
ndiswrapper -l shows:
Installed ndis drivers:
wmp54gs driver present, hardware present
iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
I'm running the AMD-64 flavor of Debian, Kernel 2.6.22-3-amd64
Any ideas on where I may have erred here? Like I said, I'm certain I
followed the above instructions step by step.
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