Help geting my wireless connection to work

[oxf]

HI,

I just installed Jaunty on my Laptop. Evrything looks good except I cant get my Wifi to work. I had heard its easier under 9.04 but no for me so far!

I have the tricky BC4318 Wireless card. It didnt detect the hardward even when I used the wired connection. So I installed Ndiswrapper from the live CD which was the proceure I used under Hardy. It now lists the driver/fwcutter (and another one called software modem too). BUt I've tried downloading it and it sits at 0% for ages and then gives an error something about "backend not working"

So can someone(s) help me fiure out whats happening an dwhat to do next please? Terminal output is below. Thanks!

mbdb@M2000:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:c0:9f:f3:97:78
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 ip=192.168.1.75 latency=64 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:05:02.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64 module=ssb
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:14:a5:29:d2:c2
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
*-network:1 DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: pan0
serial: fe:fe:40:69:8f:bb
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes
mbdb@M2000:~$

lspci -v | less
05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1356
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
Memory at c0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
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[kmitnick]

try lsusb command

[oxf]

try lsusb command

uhmm OK. bUt I dont understand what this tells us? Anyway posted below. Seriously take me back to stage one if need be. I just want to get this Wireless card working!

mbdb@M2000:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
mbdb@M2000:~$

[waterhead]

Your wireless is a Broadcom BCM4318. Before it will work properly you need to install device firmware. To do this, you first must have a wired internet connection. Then run this command:

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

It will ask "Fetch and install firmware?". Answer "Yes". (just hit "Enter")

[pookiebear]

Your wireless is a Broadcom BCM4318. Before it will work properly you need to install device firmware. To do this, you first must have a wired internet connection. Then run this command:

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

It will ask "Fetch and install firmware?". Answer "Yes". (just hit "Enter")

That is right on, had to do that on my hp with same wireless. Did it work for you?

[oxf]

That is right on, had to do that on my hp with same wireless. Did it work for you?

Thanks guys. That did the trick
I seem to remember from before with hardy I could just click on activate in Hardware Drivers to do it without using terminal. Maybe my memories going LOL.