[SOLVED] another wireless card problem

ricky.smitts · 07-19-2011, 12:55 AM

lspci
"02:06.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)"

uname -r
"2.6.38-10-generic"

OK, so I'm running Xubuntu 11.04. I tried to use ndiswrapper but when I plug in the .inf file it says it's not a valid driver. My wireless worked without a problem on Ubuntu 9.10 but I had to activate it in the "additional drivers" section under "system" tab. I'm not really sure where to go from here. Is there an open source driver I can use? If so, what do I need to do to install it? And if ndiswrapper is my only option, does anyone know where I can get a good copy of the .inf file to try again to run the windows driver? thanks a lot for any help you can give. It's greatly appreciated.

TobiSGD · 07-19-2011, 05:59 PM

The driver for that card should be already installed, what you need is the firmware for that device. You can either install it with the Additional Drivers-tool or via the command line with

Code:

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

After that you should be able to connect with your network manager (I don't know if Xubuntu has one pre-installed, I use wicd on Slackware and it works well).

ricky.smitts · 07-19-2011, 10:01 PM

That worked perfectly. Thanks for the help.