Broadcom wireless problems - Page 2

stoat · #16 31st October 2009, 03:53 AM

Open the file with a text editor...

Code:

su
gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

And manually edit out the lines you added to blacklist b43 and ssb.

fiddy · #17 31st October 2009, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by stoat

Then skip it. I never heard of it anyway. The other steps are very familiar. Where did those instructions come from? Where did you get ndiswrapper? Source?

I got ndiswrapper from sorceforge... v1.55 The instructions were from here i thought, but i'm not for sure, because i copied them to a text document so i could try it in Fedora, since i'm dual booting, and I don't have internet on Fedora just yet...

fiddy · #18 31st October 2009, 04:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stoat

And manually edit out the lines you added to blacklist b43 and ssb.

Thanks i'll do that... be back shortly hopefully... If not its because i have to boot back into XP

stoat · #19 31st October 2009, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by fiddy

I got ndiswrapper from sorceforge... v1.55

Okay. Nothing wrong with that. Just curious because really haven't heard of the hotplug option before. I used to compile ndiswrapper from source, too. It worked. Had to recompile after every new kernel. A couple of minutes to do that. Carry on.

fiddy · #20 31st October 2009, 04:48 AM

All i gotta say is you are the freakin man stoat...

I'm now browsing within Fedora... Die Windows...

fiddy · #21 31st October 2009, 04:51 AM

As soon as i installed the firmware, about 5 seconds later it asked my for my wpa/wpa2 password... and then after a quick reboot i am now surfing the web...

stoat · #22 31st October 2009, 05:05 AM

Here's something that you might like to know. All that Dangermouse thing did was unpack about three dozen files in the /lib/firmware/b43 directory. Check it out. Now, you can backup that directory somewhere, and the next time you install or re-install Fedora you can simply create that /lib/firmware/b43 folder in the new system. Then copy those files there from the backup, reboot or restart NetworkManager, and BOOM! Connected. You won't have to do the rpm thing or b43-fwcutter if you backup those files. I've been copying over the same firmware files for about the last three Fedora versions and Debian and Ubuntu even though newer versions are available from OpenWrt.org (where they come from). I will continue to do that until they stop working. Just FYI.