Wireless Networking

[Protostar]

Well I just finished installing Ubuntu linux and it is awesome. I look forward to never having to use Windows again. I do have a problem though. My laptop (an HP Pavilion zd8000) has a builtin Broadcom wireless adapter. I already downloaded and installed the ndiswrapper and don't know what to do now. How do I get it to work from here?

TIA,

Proto

[Corvillus]

First, copy the bcmwl5.inf, bcmwl5a.inf and bcmwl5.sys from your driver install directory. Open a shell and switch to the directory that you placed these drivers in. Then do the following

sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

If you're using breezy, there's also a GUI frontend for ndiswrapper you can install called ndisgtk. This will appear in System-Administration-Windows wireless drivers, and from there you can just install the driver directly. Once you've installed the driver, you can open your network configuration, and configure wlan0 accordingly.

[Protostar]

First, copy the bcmwl5.inf, bcmwl5a.inf and bcmwl5.sys from your driver install directory. Open a shell and switch to the directory that you placed these drivers in. Then do the following

sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

If you're using breezy, there's also a GUI frontend for ndiswrapper you can install called ndisgtk. This will appear in System-Administration-Windows wireless drivers, and from there you can just install the driver directly. Once you've installed the driver, you can open your network configuration, and configure wlan0 accordingly.

Okay I did all of that, but it still won't work. wlan0 appears in the network configuration menu and I have it activated but I still can't surf the web. Maybe it's because I have the ethernet connection enabled as well? I don't know. I really want to get this working so I am not tethered to the wall. Thanks for all of your help so far though. I really appreciate it.