I struggled with Broadcom wireless on 64-bit hardy for literally months (it wasn't that big of a deal because frankly I very rarely use wireless -- pretty much only at our LUG meetings.) My final solution was to use ndiswrapper and wicd http://wicd.sourceforge.net
My wireless card is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) on an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop. I know that wicd DOES NOT link to the gnome-keyring / seahorse. I strongly suggest trying wicd before reverting to 9.04. Hope this helps, Robert Mike Bigalke wrote > A few days ago I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a friend's laptop. He has a > 4306 Broadcom wireless card. And having had a laptop with a bcm4312 > card I knew there would be an issue with the wireless. > > So, I searched the forums and found the b43legacy/b43 tar, downloaded > it, placed the unzipped folders in /lib/firmware and rebooted. Well, > at least it was trying to connect now. But Seahorse wanted a password > for me to use the wireless, so I gave it one. Then, of course so did > the WPA wireless spot I was in. Still no connect. > > So, I found a lan, plugged the laptop in and downloaded all 147 > updates for 9.10. Rebooted, Wow! It connected no problem to the open > wireless network available to me. I called my friend and told him it > was now working. Then I drove all the way across the metro area back > to the coffee shop and tried to boot up. First Seahorse wanted a > password again, then the WPA encrypted hot spot wanted it's password, > too. Trying, trying, trying.... Up comes the box for the password > again, trying, trying, trying.... Password box reappears. Etc., etc., > and so on. I won't connect to a WPA connect. > > > First, off. I have never seen this behavior from Seahorse before. > Before 9.10 it never bothered me for any sort of prompt unless I PGP'd > email. So what is going on with Seahorse demanding a password to use > wireless? Anyone? Can I just remove Seahorse without destroying access > to Ubuntu? You know, sudo apt-get purge seahorse? > > Could that fix the wireless connect WPA problem? Or do I need to go > back to 9.04? -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
