Showing posts with label ubuntu wifi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ubuntu wifi. Show all posts

Thursday, May 01, 2008

How use broadcomm wifi in Ubuntu

add resources in system->software sources->tab ubuntu software

sudo apt-get install build-essential
wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-011
make
cd ..export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR=”/lib/firmware”
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod
sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w “/lib/firmware/wl_apsta.o
uninstall network-manager
sudo apt-get remove network-manager

install wicd package

reboot

in wicd is show wifi, choose encryption wpa1/2 a fill out key = password