On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 11:51 +0100, Tony Travis wrote: > Michael Weaver wrote: > > I think it could well be. > > Thanks for your suggestion about looking on the Router itself. > > Might have to get dad to re-install the wireless part, he has done it > > for his and mum's setup at home because I think they are probably > > same. > > Hello, Michael. > > You might find this useful when you're setting up wireless networking: > > aptitude install wifi-radar > > If your hardware isn't supported directly use: > > aptitude install ndiswrapper-utils > > I'm connected to my BT home-hub using a WiFi connection running Ubuntu > 6.06.1 LTS on my HP Pavillion dv5000 laptop, using the 'ndis' wrapper > for the Broadcom Windows driver I got off the HP Windows installation: > > ndiswrapper -l > Installed ndis drivers: > bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present > > I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's got the Linux driver working > with Ubuntu Dapper using the Broadcom wireless chipset. > > Best wishes, > > Tony. > -- > Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Rowett Research Institute, | http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt > Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 > Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK. | fax:+44 (0)1224 716687 >
Hi Tony, I'm using a bcm4306 card (F5D7010uk rev3) with the bcm43xx driver on Dapper. I have a old Toshiba laptop running as a squid proxy and apt-cache server. It uses the PCMCIA card to link to the AP downstairs over WPA-PSK w/ CCMP. I don't use Network Manager as it's just too unreliable, instead all configuring is done through wpa_supplicant and /etc/network/interfaces. The tricky part is locating firmware that works. It's probably easiest to use a Feisty machine to download and extract the firmware as it has a more modern version of bcm43xx-fwcutter, then just transfer the *.fw files into the /lib/firmware folder of the machine with the wifi card. This wiki page is useful, except for the broken links. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Dapper Having said all this, in terms of easy setup and wireless throughput Ndiswrapper is still the better solution. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
