After trying,searching and crying for more than one month, I finally get it working today in my laptop (Dell Inspiron 6400) 🙂 – I am one of the happiest ever in this world right now :D. here’s how to. All the credit goes to “kayvortex”
Model of my wifi card is “Broadcom BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)”
Steps
1. Install Ndiswrapper Common and Ndiswrapper Utils (You can do it using synaptic)
2. Download The Driver from ftp://ftp.dell.com/network/R151517.EXE and unzip it somewhere. You will see a folder named DRIVER
3. Execute the following commands
sudo ndiswrapper -i /download_directory/DRIVER/bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -l
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
4. Then, set ndiswrapper to load on startup:
sudo ndiswrapper -m
gksudo gedit /etc/modules
and add the following module to the list
ndiswrapper
5. Restart (This is a must)
Now you can use Fn+F2 to turn on your wifi 😀 )
Congrats man!
As the saying goes, its never too late 😉
Thanks so much. I have had a heck of a time getting my wireless working. Works great now!
Happy WiFi’ing
@Ahsan:
heh heh I am still trying… 😛
Cool.
@Aman Bhai:
when you are going to install this again, please be sure that Ahsan Bhai is present there.
Thanks a lot … saved my day
I can’t get my Broadcom bluetooth working on Ubuntu. It works on windows. Can I expect some help?
Thanks for your help.
I’ve already configured my Dell-Wifi, I found following link more helpful.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/
This is amazing. Your the man.
awesome, thanks.
Thank you – the steps above work for a Mac Pro with broadcom airport as well.
Btw, you have a ginormous spam comment above.
Thanks Brian, Spams are removed now
I have the driver installed on my vostro 1310, and i can see wireless networks. The only problem is that the network manager does not accept my network key, it is the right key but it just doesn’t connect and keeps on asking for it.
The restricted driver manager does not recognize there is a driver either. Only ndiswrapper does.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Thanks so much for this. Your driver actually seems to be what worked for me. All the other steps in this process pretty much mirror any other tutorial. I think the part that matters is what driver I use with ndiswrapper.
Unfortunately, the updates in Hardy Heron killed my WPA access now. :C
Ean, you just need to reload the driver in ndiswrapper, it is common after some updates!
Muito bom…
Resolveu meus problemas WiFi com a placa BCM4328 (rev.3).
Show de bola!!!! 🙂
Obrigado.
I was able to get BCM4328 using the Broadcom 802.11 STA Linux drivers, without the ndiswrapper. Here is the page: http://www2.zdo.com/archives/33-Broadcom-BCM4328-and-wpa_supplicant-under-Linux-2.6..html
Thanks a bunch!!!!!!!
I have one that just a bit different than the model you were talkin about but reading your blog and and others’ comments then I think now Im fine 🙂
By the way is there any way to break through any secured network like 2wire. for example when they ask for a password, how do I by-pass that!!!!
Hi, could somebody tell which files I have to blacklist?
Or help me with this:
root@ubuntu:/home/mitko# sudo ndiswrapper -l
Gave me:
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 1: ignoring bad line starting with ‘nblacklist’
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4328) present (alternate driver: ssb)
nasıl bir şey ise harika
Thank you so much, works great. I have been looking for a solution for 2 whole days. 🙂