unable to access net using wireless adapter in Ubuntu 9.10
I had been using Ubuntu 8.04 distro earlier and it was working quite well for me.Initially i had a problem with wireless net connection,but after installing ndiswrapper it all went well and fine.
I just had a fresh install of 9.10 Karmic on my system,but it seems its not that easy going for me here as it was in 8.04.Initially after installing ndiswrapper i was online,and on instaling b43fwcutter,the necessary drivers were downloaded and installed automatically, but same is not the case now as even though in "restricted hardware drivers" my wireless adapter is recognized but it doesn't connect to the net and i dont have any other choice to access net.I dont know if i am missing something or did something wrong.I have a compaq 505tu laptop with Broadcom 802.11b/g wireless adapter.Any suggestions ??? Thanks in advance |
A couple of things you can check.
Sometimes you need to blacklist the linux driver which can be done in /etc/modprobe.d. Make sure "ndiswrapper" is added to /etc/modules. |
If you're using the b43 driver, which is the driver that uses the firmware installed via b43-fwcutter, then you do not want ndiswrapper loading as well. In almost all cases, two wireless modules trying to work with the same card results in neither working.
Please post the output of Code:
lspci | grep -i net |
thanks for the suggestions, here is what i see in /etc/modules:
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and heres the output for Code: Quote:
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Did you say you had installed the firmware? It isn't being found.
You did this? Code:
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter |
thats what the problem actually is,to install the firmware it needs net,which was available to me in 8.04 just by installing ndiswrapper,but same is not the case now.On installing b43fwcutter by gdeb package installer the installation is interrupted in between where it tries to access net by some line like "http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o" .....
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From a computer with net access download the tar ball. http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources...8.10.4.tar.bz2 Transfer that file to your home directory on the Ubuntu box. Open a terminal and do Code:
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2 |
Wait, I think Ubuntu 9.10 isn't using as recent a kernel as I was thinking. I believe this is the file you need instead.
http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/b...0.10.5.tar.bz2 And then Code:
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 |
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