Acer Ferrari 1000 help please

[tesseract85]

Hello all,
I have exhausted all efforts in attempting to get the audio to work with Ubuntu 8.04.1. I am making the switch to my original linux operating system. The one that I cut my teeth on, Fedora. I installed everything and it went smoothly except two common things.

1. My wireless doesnt work. I installed ndiswrapper, when I attemp to use it at the shell it tells me that there is no program named ndiswrapper. I even performed an updatedb after installing thinking that was it, sadly it was not. I need help with this, i hate being tethered to the wall. FYI it uses a broadcom BCM4328 chipset. I have the 64 bit drivers and have used it successfully in ubuntu and windows.

2. My audio does not work. It did not in ubuntu, but works perfectly with Sabayon and gentoo, why is that? Does anyone know how to get the ati sb4x0 audio to work? I think that realtek may have something to do with this. I need some help desperatly, you guys are my only hope.

Thank you for your help in advance. You guys are awesome!

[tesseract85]

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc 4379 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 83)

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (rev 80)

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]

07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)

08:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

08:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller

08:09.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller

08:09.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)

[glennzo]

Welcome back to Fedora. Have a look here. Post #3. bbfuller is a whiz with this stuff. Be warned, he'll deny every word

[tesseract85]

I thank you for your help. I hate to inform you, but I have followed all of bbfullers steps in the past with no luck. i will attemp to try it again when i get home from work at 4pm est. I will keep you posted.

[tesseract85]

I attempted to follow the instructions on the wireless to no avail, it still does not even recognize the fact that I have ndiswrapper installed. Any other ideas? Thanks.

FYI: I am running fedora 9 x86_64

[glennzo]

No. I don't use BroadComm. My laptop has the IPW3945 adapter. Have you searched to see if this adapter is actually supported in Fedora. How's chances of booting Ubuntu Live to see how it handles the adapter?