Ubuntu 8.04 + HP Pavillion dv6416ca + Broadcom BCM4312 rev. 02
Posted by: gf4e on: April 26, 2008
After a couple of hours of torturing myself, I finally got it working. The procedure was about the same as in the case of Fedora 8, but even a little simpler. I installed ndiswrapper through sudo apt-get ndiswrapper-utils-1.9. After that I got my XP drivers for the wireless card on their website. Then I blacklisted everything possible, including ssb. After that just loaded the driver with ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf, and the indicator went blue.
Most of the people on the Internet used the standard way described on linuxwireless.org, but it did not work for me.
2 Responses to "Ubuntu 8.04 + HP Pavillion dv6416ca + Broadcom BCM4312 rev. 02"
May 4, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I described how to blacklist in the post before that. Anyway, to blacklist a driver by its alias you have to open /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add “blacklist driver” into it, where “driver” is the one you want to blacklist. I think in Ubuntu bcm43xx is blacklisted by default.
If you want to get the whole thing to work, do everything described in the earlier post about Fedora 8, and after that try to follow what I have written about Ubuntu and ssb/ndiswrapper conflict. ;)
May 4, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I tried likke you sair\d but a don’t know how to blacklist files an which file I have to black list. can you post that. thank you :)