9 Responses for "Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless"

1. Lance May 19th, 2008 at 2:04 am 1

   “good to go” I wish was true. I came off using fedora for years, to a clean 8.0.4 install on my Dell XPS M1330 and an internal broadcom network card.

   Your right on the System -> Admin -> Hardware Drivers. The Broadcom is listed, nice green button, enabled yet nothing working. I have 3 neighbors with wireless yet none are seen, no errors, etc.

   I am posting on the ubuntu forums, but who knows … Just someone’s .02!

2. Mike Gerwitz May 19th, 2008 at 2:16 am 2

   Another thing I had to try on another one of the computers in order to get it working was to manually bring up the network interface after configuring everything in the Network Manager.

   Find your wireless interface:
   sudo iwconfig

   Then try (replacing wlan0 with your interface)
   sudo ifdown wlan0
sudo ifup wlan0

   Why a restart didn’t fix it and that did, I do not know. However, on that computer I also did not need to download the restricted drivers. At the very least, doing the above will allow you to see any errors. If you’re looking for help at UbuntuForums, such output will be helpful.

3. Simon May 24th, 2008 at 6:53 pm 3

   Thanks very much! Worked like a charm

4. Angelo June 28th, 2008 at 1:20 pm 4

   I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 on a clean machine (Inspiron 8500) there is no blue tower for roaming wireless shown, when I click on edit wireless networks there is none shown, it does work with direct wire connection.There are no Hardware drivers shown when I access that. My NIC card is a Bmcom4309, any help would be wonderful.

5. Michael July 28th, 2008 at 11:55 pm 5

   Check out this website - http://300lb.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-get-broadcom-wireless-to-work-in.html

   I have a broadcom wireless 4306, and this worked like a charm. After installing I had to restart, and no problems since.

6. Jim Lynch July 30th, 2008 at 9:24 pm 6

   wlan0 doesn’exist. I can’t see what Im typing so I hope this isn’t garbage. Black on a dark green background is less than optimal.

   No network card listed in Hardware drivers. lspci shows two wireless cards, the built in and the pcmcia card but noting makes them work.

   I even installed Linuxant and it doesn’t.
   Windows works fiee as did Edgy.

   Jim

7. Bill Ataras August 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm 7

   I have tried various methods for installing fwcutter and all have failed. In the most recent attempt, I began with:
   sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common

   Things seemed to proceed normally for a while, then this error was reported:

   Quoting:

   Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:011-1) …
   Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
   dpkg: error processing b43-fwcutter (–configure):
   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
   Setting up ndiswrapper-common (1.50-1ubuntu1) …
   Errors were encountered while processing:
   b43-fwcutter
   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

   Can you help resolve this?

   Thank you,
   Bill

8. Bill Ataras August 3rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm 8

   The problem appears to come from lines in the install fwcutter script that have the following:

   wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

   The error message is:

   Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.

9. Mike Gerwitz August 4th, 2008 at 2:05 am 9

   Does wget work on its own? Try to download some file:

   wget http://site.com/file

   If it gives you the proxy error, check your proxy settings. Port 8080 sounds familiar - perhaps privoxy. I do not use a proxy so I’m not sure how to help.