Yes after loading Ubuntu 9.10, i was able to get the B43legacy driver to work very well. I'm not sure how 9.10 fixed it, but it did.
Thank you. Tom Dunham ________________________________ From: Przemysław Kulczycki <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, April 8, 2010 10:05:27 AM Subject: [Bug 276980] Re: ndiswrapper bcm4306 rev 2 won't connect regression Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. If you could test the current Ubuntu development version (10.04), this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect 276980, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue. Also please note that your card should be supported by the b43 driver, so you should try it first. However, this driver requires you to download the firmware either by installing b43-fwcutter while having an ethernet connection, or by downloading the firmware manually and then running b43-fwcutter on it. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx#Installing%20BCM43xx%20drivers ** Changed in: ndiswrapper (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- ndiswrapper bcm4306 rev 2 won't connect regression https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276980 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “ndiswrapper” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Starting from a live CD boot. I follow what I believe to be the correct procedure for getting the BCM4306 rev 2 wifi running with ndiswrapper. - kill NetworkManager - rmmod b43legacy and ssb - install ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 - ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf - modprobe ndiswrapper - wait a little - run NetworkManager - wait a little - iwconfig shows that wlan0 is up - iwlist wlan0 scan shows that it sees the AP - click the detected AP in the NetworkManager icon - it prompts for password - enter password - NetworkManager icon spins with one green spot (the bottom one) - 25 second later it prompts for password again - REPEAT ... - it never connects This works fine under Gutsy (rmmod'ing bcm43xx instead of b43legacy and ssb and using interface eth1 instead of wlan0), but not Hardy or Intrepid (alpha 5-6 are the only ones I have tested). The following is the exact session that I used under Intrepid Alpha 6: ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo su r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# pkill NetworkManager r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# rmmod b43legacy ssb r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# lsmod | grep b4 r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# lsmod | grep ssb r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: ndiswrapper-source The following NEW packages will be installed: ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/55.4kB of archives. After this operation, 225kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously deselected package ndiswrapper-common. (Reading database ... 101650 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ndiswrapper-common (from .../ndiswrapper-common_1.52-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package ndiswrapper-utils-1.9. Unpacking ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 (from .../ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.52-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up ndiswrapper-common (1.52-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 (1.52-1ubuntu1) ... r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# mkdir t r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# mount /dev/sda9 t r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# cd t/home/cliff/bcm43xx/ r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu/t/home/cliff/bcm43xx# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf installing bcmwl5 ... forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2 forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2 forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2 forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2 forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2 forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2 forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2 forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2 r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu/t/home/cliff/bcm43xx# modprobe ndiswrapper r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu/t/home/cliff/bcm43xx# NetworkManager r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu/t/home/cliff/bcm43xx# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu/t/home/cliff/bcm43xx# iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:A3:17:56:48 ESSID:"CliffsWifi" Protocol:IEEE 802.11b Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Quality:78/100 Signal level:-46 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Extra:bcn_int=100 Extra:atim=0 IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK Preauthentication Supported IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK r...@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu/t/home/cliff/bcm43xx# uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-3-generic #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 16:02:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux <<< handwritten comments follow >>> click on NetworkManager icon and select CliffsWifi "Wireless Network Secrets Required" window pops up enter password in window 25 second pause while NetworkManager icon does it's spinning around with just the bottom spot green "Wireless Network Secrets Required" comes back up loops like this forever I have done all this testing with the various live CD versions to keep it clean. What you see here is ALL that was done after a boot of Intrepid Alpha 6 live CD. I can do the exact same steps in Gutsy (except the module to rmmod is bcm43xx, not ssb and b43legacy and the interface is eth1 not wlan0) and it works fine. Hardy is also broken the same way, so this has been broken for a whole year. I recall reading somewhere on the forums that this problem won't be fixed in Hardy and that the developers want to know if Intrepid Alpha 5 fixed it. Well it didn't, and neither did Alpha 6 I have tried all the suggestions on the forums, and this is the distillation to prove that it is still broken. ssb / b32legacy is way too slow, I must use ndiswrapper. Yes I know how to jack the speed up from 1M to 54M with iwconfig. That is not the issue. This works fine in Gutsy but is broken in Hardy and Intrepid. 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