Public bug reported:
Before I start: this all worked in Dapper... it didn't work in Edgy but I
didn't need Edgy at the time but now I do need Feisty but I cannot use it!
I have an Asus A6km with the BCM4318 chipset
I install ubuntu/kubuntu/xubuntu (tried all 3)
After install in command line I do following:
rmmod bcm43xx # This driver doesn't support 802.11g but didn't work anyway with
WPA
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf (from driver cdrom)
ndiswrapper -m
ndiswrapper -l
# This shows that bcmwl5 : driver installed and device (14e4:4318) is present
modprobe ndiswrapper
nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist # add blacklist bcm43xx
nano /etc/modules # add ndiswrapper
after doing this network-manager (gnome or kde) identifies the wireless and
offers my network to connect to
I click to connect and am asked to enter the password. i enter the ascii wpa
key or generate the psk using wpa_passphrase either way once i confirm the
network-manager tries to connect but doesn't get further than about 28% and
then stops after about a minute unconnected.
I've tried manually editing /etc/network/interfaces and manually specifying the
wpa settings including trying wpa driver wext
i've followed forum advice (install latest ndiswrapper - suggests bug with
ndiswrapper in repositories and adding ENABLE=0 to /etc/default/wpasupplicant)
nothing works.
I've tried removing all references to network devices but lo in
/etc/network/interfaces. I feel I've tried everything this past month
but with no luck!
This should work out the box like it did for Dapper (install .deb files,
follow ndiswrapper instructions, modprobe/rmmod and then use network-
manager) I did try the latest PCLOS livecd to see if all distros are
like this and PCLOS worked fine, I gave it the windows driver and it
worked straight away, didn't even have to open a terminal!)
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Wireless doesn't work using ndiswrapper for broadcom 4318 + wpa + feisty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132418
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