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Comment on RT61 / RT2×00 RaLink Linux Driver Installation by RaLink Wireless - Random Disconnects (No ProbeResp)

RaLink Wireless - Random Disconnects (No ProbeResp) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:32:27 +0000

[…] For settings up RaLink drivers for your wireless device, please see a previous entry: RT61 / RT2×00 RaLink Linux Driver Installation […]

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Mike Gerwitz

Mike Gerwitz — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:05:35 +0000

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.

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Bill Ataras

Bill Ataras — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:13:56 +0000

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.

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Bill Ataras

Bill Ataras — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:55:13 +0000

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

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Jim Lynch

Jim Lynch — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:24:57 +0000

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

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Michael

Michael — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:55:05 +0000

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.

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Angelo

Angelo — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:20:12 +0000

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.

Comment on Gentoo GNOME Overlay Problems by Donnie Berkholz

Donnie Berkholz — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:56:01 +0000

I’ve had the same problem with the gnome overlay, forgetting to delete it after the release. It might help if they had packages in there masked.

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Simon

Simon — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:53:35 +0000

Thanks very much! Worked like a charm

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Mike Gerwitz

Mike Gerwitz — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:16:00 +0000

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.