bcm4328 chipset not supported by hardy heron

[notarnet]

The broadcom chipset bcm4328 in not supported in Ubuntu 8.04 beta. In gutsy I used it with ndiswrapper but in hardy don't work.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

NDISWrapper and Windows XP drivers for bcm4328 work just fine for me.

I am running Hardy beta with latest updates, I have been using wireless wince alpha 4 without problems with an HP Pavilion tx1220ca which reports this from lspci:
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

The drivers with NDISwrappers are for Windos XP, and are available here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-53245-1&lc=en&cc=ca&dlc=en&product=3444231&os=228

Once i had the SP36684.exe file, I had to install the "wine" package and run it. The installer crashes however the files remain installed at ~/.wine/drive_c/SWSetup/SP36684A. I also install ndsigtk (which brings along all ndiswrapper dependencies) and using the following command I point at the INF file in the above directory:
sudo ndisgtk

Then wireless drivers load and after a few minutes all surrounding wireless networks are visible and can be used.

[eljacob (tech-celeritas)]

Thank you Fabián,

I've been trying to make my new Acer Ferrari 1100 internal wifi card (BCM4328 rev 01) work with Ubuntu 8.04 for 2 days without success.

I tried Acer's native driver, ndiswrapper, installed Ubuntu x86 and Ubuntu AMD64 final releases, but I simply couldn't connect.

Your hint worked, and I am posting from my newly connected notebook!

Thanks!

[Matt Schulte (gimpyestrada)]

I also have the BCM4328 (Rev 03) chipset. It is not detected by the default Hardy 8.04 install, as advertised.

Likewise I have had some success with the ndiswrapper. I have a Dell Inspiron 1721, and am using an XP driver that I found on their website.

I don't have a lot of experience with ndiswrapper, so I don't know if this is to be expected, but it seems to take an inordinate amount of time for the wireless to connect up and get an ip address.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Matt, the drivers I linked to are for an HP system. Generally speaking you should try and use drivers for your system if /when using NDISwrapper.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

notarnet, care to share your system's brand and model, as well as the output of the following command ?:
lspci

Thank you.

[notarnet (notarnet-msn)]

I resolve the problem with ndiswrapper and the following driver:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-53245-1&lc=en&cc=ca&dlc=en&product=3444231&os=228

Thank you all

[Sean Hodges (seanhodges)]

The native Broadcom modules in Linux do not support bcm4328 yet: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2008-May/007517.html

Best to stick with ndiswrapper for now (or buy a supported wireless card...) The following driver is reported to work with ndiswrapper on Dell machines: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.EXE

[James Schriver (dashua)]

The Broadcom driver for 4318 works flawlessly on the BCM4328. I installed it via restricted drivers manager on Hardy and built the LKM on Intrepid. Better signal strength, connects fasters on start up/suspend.

[James Schriver (dashua)]

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

That is the driver that works which has also been added to linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (* Upgrade Broadcom to 5.10.27)

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Correct, in Intrepid a bunch of Broadcom chipsets are now supported out of the box following a commercial agreement between Canonical and Broadcom.

But for Hardy NDISwrapper + Windows drivers as I described initially is the only way this can work.

Now closing this as fix released.