Comments on: Make Broadcom Wifi Work With Ndiswrapper on openSUSE 10.3

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:10:43 +0000

Hi Scott,
Your instructions to setup wireless worked perfectly for me, thanks so much as I have been trying to get it working for sometime now with no luck.
My machine details:
HP Pavilion laptop dv4-1435dx, x86_64, dual-boot Vista & OpenSuse 11.1
Wireless card details:
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller

thanks!
JJ

By: oluwatosin

oluwatosin — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:35:47 +0000

i formatted my laptop lenovo 3000c200(89222fu) without backing it up, since then,the sound has not been working at all,and i have been trying to get the sound driver. please ,help me. cos i cant play any sound or music on .

By: Lindo

Lindo — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:50:28 +0000

Scott,

My DELL Latitude had a self-combustion crisis and I’m setting my girl’s Dell Insipron laptop with my Latitude’s hard disk.

I swapped hard disks and I was up and runing after a coule hours but no wirelesss.

I’m trying to follow your instructions but I get “ERROR: Module does not exist in /proc/modules”. When running “rmmod netani” but the driver is installed, Its installed and the wireless card is present when I type ndiswrapper -l.

Your help would be great. I’m no linux newbee but I’m no pro either.

Thanks!!

Lindo

By: sappertron

sappertron — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:50:02 +0000

Spent all morning reading other how-tos and was starting to feel hopeless. Found your page and after 5 minutes it’s working.

Thanks and great job.

By: vinod

vinod — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:29:49 +0000

thank you ..i followed as given and it is working …

By: dan spisak

dan spisak — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:49:28 +0000

Hi, Scott. I attempted to install bcmwl5.sys per your instructions. I downloaded the .inf and .sys files from the link you provided and extracted them. I used ndis wrapper to install the file with no success. This is a typical example. I’ve tried several paths.

djs_mobile:/home/spisaks# ndiswrapper -i root/home/spisaks/desktop/downloads/bcmwl5/bcmwl5.inf
installing bcmwl5 …

This is the result.

couldn’t open root/home/spisaks/desktop/downloads/bcmwl5/bcmwl5.inf: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.9 line 167.

However

djs_mobile:/home/spisaks# ndiswrapper -l
installed drivers:
bcmwl5 invalid driver!

Help! I am very very new to Linux. I’ve loaded Linux to my laptop and everything works except the wireless card.

Here is my configuration:
Laptop – Compaq Presario V2414NR, AMD Turion 64 1.6 GHz, 1.2 GB.
Wireless card – Broadcom BCM94318MPG rev. 4, per card.
lspci -v&apos reports:
05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11 g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1355
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 225
Memory at c0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8K].

OS – Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r5 “Etch” Official amd64.

The Windows XP Pro SP-3 partition on the laptop contains bcmwl5.inf, bcmwl5.sys, and bcmwl564.sys. I tried to install these files with no success before I tried the files from your link. Since I am running a 64-bit OS should I use the bcml564.sys or something similar?

I’ll appreciate any help or guidance. Thank you for your time.

Dan

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:42:17 +0000

Scott,

Excellent info here. Got a question -

I’m using WPA-EAP with TLS. I only have an identity, key pair and password. This is all I needed for Windows. However, the docs say TLS needs a Client Cert as well. I didn’t need one for Windows, why does SUSE want one?

Thanks!

By: Scott Morris

Scott Morris — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:34:28 +0000

Mark,
Thanks for the kind words. I’m glad this was helpful for you! Thanks for stopping by.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:03:52 +0000

I just wanted to comment that, while there may be many more comprehensive tutorials online, this is by far the best, with the most information. I was about 2 seconds away from going back to ubuntu when I found this, and sure enough, when I was done, my wireless works perfectly. Thank you for taking the time to post this on here.

By: Izo

Izo — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:13:46 +0000

Hi Scott,

Just got OpenSuse 10.3 the other day (before I knew 11 was being released…) and this worked like a charm. I knew I was on my way when the wireless light on my Presario came on. Then it was just a bit of tweaking to get it to connect. Very nice, thanks. This was on a Compaq Presario C500TU with a Broadcom (the same model as yours) WiFi card.

Cheers,
Izo

By: slin

slin — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:44:02 +0000

Im a total noob to linux – my buddy (who’s more of a guru) set up suse 10.3 on an old compaq laptop with a broadcom bcm4306 wireless card…

we got it working with an unsecured network fine.. but now that i am trying to connect to a WPA encrypted network, i get really strange behavior… i have ndiswrapper starting on boot so it seems find – its finding the ssid fine as well – it actually connects and gets an IP from my router dhcp (192.168….) and there are packets being sent out and coming in… but i cant get out via FF – i try to hit google.com and get Server Not Found… any ideas? should i switch to WEP and try?

are there issues with WPA ( i think its WPA1) with Ndiswrapper with suse 10?

should i just wait for 11 to try all this?

i get unknown host when i ping google.com in Konsole…

By: Scott Morris

Scott Morris — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:34:27 +0000

himadri,
Rock on, bro! Totally glad to hear it! Thanks for stopping by!

By: himadri

himadri — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:17:29 +0000

Hey Scott,
got mine working with the help of this article … cheers mate .. keep up the good work ..

GOD Bless

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:59:36 +0000

it take 1 day to configure the ndisdriver on a dell vostro 1700 , due i install an 64 bit version of an opensuse 10.30, i just download a XP 64 bit driver from hp (pavilion with xp os), the default version of bcm43xx direver are 32 bits, then you need to find out the rigth one

Thanks to all for the great information on this blog

By: Firerat

Firerat — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:26:20 +0000

cheers Scott,

after much fighting with the default bcm43xx in OpenSuse 10.3 on my Dell Latitude D600 I now have wireless working via ndiswrappers.

many Thanks