My wife's laptop, which has Windows XP, has Broadcom's BCM4311 wireless
card in it. I had Xubuntu on there once (via Wubi -- I originally
tried Ubuntu on it, but it royally bogged down the system, so I tried
Xubuntu instead, and it ran just fine), and it involved a LOT of
fiddling with the command line to get it to work, which it eventually
did, but...(rolling my eyes)
Fred
Mike Bigalke wrote:
In 9.04 and earlier nm-applet didn't link to seahorse
either.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Robert &
Janet Bennett <[email protected]>
wrote:
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? --
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