Archive for September, 2007

Setting Wireless Network in Ubuntu Feisty 7.04

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Recently I installed Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 on my Dell Latitude D600 laptop, but still had to do some work to get wireless working.
For those interested, here are the steps involved:

  • Determine your Wireless card.

    • lspci | grep -i network
    02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

  • Disable BCM43XX Driver

    • sudo -s
    echo blacklist bcm43xx >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
    exit

  • Instal ndiswrapper. This enables wireless network cards on Linux by implementing the Windows kernel and NDIS APIs and dynamically linking the vendor’s Windows drivers

    • sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils

  • Get your windows driver

    • wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.EXE

  • Extract driver to MYDRIVER directory

    • unzip -a R151517.EXE

  • Install the driver

    • cd MYDRIVER
    sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

  • Verify driver, hardware

    • sudo ndiswrapper -l

  • configure ndsiwrapper

    • sudo ndiswrapper -m
    sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
    sudo -s
    echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
    exit

  • Reboot now!
  • Test wireless
    sudo iwlist scanning

If this is your lucky day, you should have your wireless up and ready.

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