Have you ever had trouble setting up your Broadcom wirless cards to work with Ubuntu? The following procedure worked perfect ( I have tried several times) for
me to configure Broadcom wireless card on my old and heavy Dell Inspiron 9100 to work with Ubuntu Edgy.
1) Before you start, get a copy of bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys files and copy them to your desktop
2) Open a terminal session and enter the following commands
a) remove the broadcom module
$sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
add: “blacklist bcm43xx” (no quotes) and save the file
$sudo modprobe -r bcm43xx
$sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
b) Install windows wireless drivers(ndiswrapper)
$sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
$sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/bcmwl5.inf
$sudo ndiswrapper -m
$sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
3) Reboot your PC and the wireless card should start working fine.
