Configuration of Broadcom wireless cards for Ubuntu
Posted by Rajkiran Ghanta on January 24, 2008
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.
