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With ndiswrapper,Broadcom BCM4310 BCM4318 Work in Linux

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With ndiswrapper,Broadcom BCM4310 BCM4318 Work in Linux

 

Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)
Ndiswrapper version: 1.23 (need version ndiswrapper 1.31 on Mandriva 10.2 on HP Pavilion dv9001)
Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4312
PCIID: 14e4:4312
Windows driver location: f tp://f tp.hp.com/pub/sof tpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe This file can be extracted with cabextract and contains both 32 bits and 64 bits files. (Try: ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf)
Using Gentoo AMD64 Kernel Version 2.6.17 on a HP Pavilion dv2000 / Mandriva 10.2 AMD64 Kernel 2.6.15 on HP Pavillion dv9001
Other: For DV6000 (and maybe others) use f tp://f tp.hp.com/pub/sof tpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34152.exe (resolves random oopses)
Using ndiswrapper version 1.41 with f tp://f tp.hp.com/pub/sof tpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34152.exe on DV 6000z on Ubuntu 2.6.15-28-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 1 16:36:09 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

 


Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 AirForce One 54g 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Ndiswrapper version: 1.1-4
Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4318
PCIID: 02:03.0 (rev 02)
Windows driver location: h ttp://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5a.inf. Also need .sys file h ttp://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5.sys
Using Ubuntu 5.10 on Dell Inspiron 1300

 


Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 AirForce One 54g 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Ndiswrapper version: 1.11
Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4318
PCIID: 30:02.0 (rev 02)
Windows driver location: f tp://f tp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3020_5020/driver/winxp64bit/80211g.zip Driver: WL_Broadcom,XP64
Using Fedora Core 5 x86_64 on HP Pavilion zv6000 with AMD64.
Worked after adding “noapic nolapic acpi=off” to kernel command line obtained from
h ttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2132310#post2132310
Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 AirForce One 54g 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)


Ndiswrapper version: 1.21
Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4318
PCIID: 03:02.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02)
Windows driver location (v6.00 rev. a): f tp://f tp.compaq.com/pub/sof tpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe This file can be extracted with cabextract and contains both 32 bits and 64 bits files. Also explanations are available here: f tp://f tp.compaq.com/pub/sof tpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.html
Works with boot noapic nolapic
You may need to blacklist the default bcm43xx kernel module by adding it to the listing in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Using Mandriva Cooker x86_64 on HP ZV 6000 Sempron 3200+
Tested using Sidux 2007-01 on Compaq V5105US

 

Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 AirForce One 54g 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Ndiswrapper version: 1.11
Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4318
PCIID: 00:0b.0 (rev 02)
Windows driver location: f tp://f tp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3020_5020/driver/winxp64bit/80211g.zip Driver: WL_Broadcom,XP64
Other: Needs *.sys *.inf files in same directory but use BCMWL5A.INF for ndiswrapper driver install. Load ndiswrapper at boot up thanks to /etc/rc5.d file.
Using Fedora Core 5 x86_64 on Acer Aspire 5002 WLMI with AMD Turion 64.

 

Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 AirForce One 54g 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Ndiswrapper version: 1.22 and 1.23
Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4318
PCIID: 02:03.0 (rev 02)
Windows driver location: h ttp://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5a.inf. Also need .sys file h ttp://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5.sys
Using SuSE 10.1 on Dell Inspiron 1300


Guide ID: 10000000005294889Guide created: 31/01/08 (updated 06/05/08)

 
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