hp dv5000 bcm4318 wireless not working

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I corrupted something on my os and had to reinstall Opensuse 11. now i can’t get the wireless to work. I had it working before my crash using ndiswrapper, but i have been trying for days and can’t get it working this time. I have a HP dv5000 with a broadcom bcm4318. I know it can work, because it has. I had found directions to get this working last time, but don’t seem to be able to find them this time. Any help would be appreciated.

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Go to the wireless subforum (under networking), read the stickies, and
look at some of the topics. If you still don’t figure it out, then
repost there.

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ndiswrapper’s site should be able to redirect you to the correct location to d/l the drivers for your machine…

If you have a 64 bit AMD chip, I believe you need to use the 32 bit Broadcom drivers…

good luck…

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ajmctaggart wrote:
> ndiswrapper’s site should be able to redirect you to the correct
> location to d/l the drivers for your machine…
>
> If you have a 64 bit AMD chip, I believe you need to use the 32 bit
> Broadcom drivers…

If you use ndiswrapper, you will need good luck.

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iwfinger…Really?

I have never had a problem on Ubuntu installs w/ that card, right now im on 4310 in this HP, but from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net, it definitely seems like it should work…

Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 AirForce One 54g 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

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  Ndiswrapper version: 1.1-4
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  Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4318
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  PCIID: 02:03.0 (rev 02)
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  Windows driver location: http://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5a.inf. Also need .sys file http://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5.sys
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  Using Ubuntu 5.10 on Dell Inspiron 1300

Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 AirForce One 54g 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

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  Ndiswrapper version: 1.11
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  Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4318
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  PCIID: 30:02.0 (rev 02)
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  Windows driver location: ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3020_5020/driver/winxp64bit/80211g.zip Driver: WL_Broadcom,XP64
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  Using Fedora Core 5 x86_64 on HP Pavilion zv6000 with AMD64.
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  Worked after adding “noapic nolapic acpi=off” to kernel command line obtained from
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  [Mandriva 2006 boot issue - LinuxQuestions.org](http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2132310#post2132310)

Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 AirForce One 54g 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

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  Ndiswrapper version: 1.21
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  Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4318
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  PCIID: 03:02.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02)
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  Windows driver location (v6.00 rev. a): ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe This file can be extracted with cabextract and contains both 32 bits and 64 bits files. Also explanations are available here: ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.html
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  Works with boot noapic nolapic
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  You may need to blacklist the default bcm43xx kernel module by adding it to the listing in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
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  Using Mandriva Cooker x86_64 on HP ZV 6000 Sempron 3200+
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  Tested using Sidux 2007-01 on Compaq V5105US

Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 AirForce One 54g 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

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  Ndiswrapper version: 1.11
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  Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4318
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  PCIID: 00:0b.0 (rev 02)
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  Windows driver location: ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3020_5020/driver/winxp64bit/80211g.zip Driver: WL_Broadcom,XP64
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  Other: Needs *.sys *.inf files in same directory but use BCMWL5A.INF for ndiswrapper driver install. Load ndiswrapper at boot up thanks to /etc/rc5.d file. [email]Antho.martin@gmail.com[/email] for more informations or questions.
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  Using Fedora Core 5 x86_64 on Acer Aspire 5002 WLMI with AMD Turion 64.

Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 AirForce One 54g 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

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  Ndiswrapper version: 1.22 and 1.23
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  Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4318
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  PCIID: 02:03.0 (rev 02)
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  Windows driver location: http://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5a.inf. Also need .sys file http://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5.sys
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  Using SuSE 10.1 on Dell Inspiron 1300

All this under “cards known to work,”

Seems strange it wouldn’t work for you…
Good Luck!
Anthony

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Hi.
You go in YAST/Network Devices/Network settings. You then DELETE any wireless connections if present (but leave others, such as eth0, as they are). You then reset your computer. After logging in again, you go to YAST/Network Devices/Network Settings again. You should be asked “A Ndiswrapper configuration was detected, but is not active. Would you like to activate it on next boot?” Answer yes. Then select “New connection” and choose “Wireless connection”. Put in the name of the driver (ndiswrapper) and the name of your wireless network (the ESSID). Select “Start with Network Manager” as opposed to “Start with ifup”. Go through all the remaining steps until YAST exits. Reboot again. You should now have a “Network Present” icon in the notification area. If not, begin troubleshooting from the console: modprobe, is ndiswrapper present, does it recognize the wlan0 device etc etc. By the way: I’ve heard rumours that there’s another route besides ndiswrapper, namely, making wireless work through the use of bwcutter or something like that. Maybe that’s a more reliable way of doing it. Anyway, best of luck! Ndiswrapper support IS a bit flaky in linux, though, I can tell. In Mandriva too.