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    Wireless Broadcom BCM4318

    Hi all,

    I have recently installed Kubuntu 8.04 and am having trouble getting my wireless PC card to work despite following the excellent howtos avi;lable through these fora. It uses the Broadcom BCM4318 chipset. I have installed the windows driver with Ndiswrapper but the link light never comes on. See terminal outputs below which seem to suggest that all is well, but of course it's not.

    jack@phoenix:~$ iwlist scan
    lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

    eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

    wlan0 Scan completed :
    Cell 01 - Address: 00:21:04:14:78:0B
    ESSID:"Tiscali14780B"
    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
    Mode:Managed
    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
    Quality:48/100 Signal level:-65 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
    Encryption keyn
    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
    9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
    48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
    Extra:bcn_int=100
    Extra:atim=0
    IE: WPA Version 1
    Group Cipher : TKIP
    Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
    Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
    Group Cipher : TKIP
    Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
    Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
    Preauthentication Supported

    jack@phoenix:~$ dmesg | grep -e wlan -e ndis
    [ 47.548097] ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
    [ 47.646167] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (ASUS,02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0) loaded
    [ 47.655096] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 16
    [ 48.009836] wlan0: ethernet device 00:18:39:c0:fc:b5 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x3644000, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 14E4:4318.5.conf
    [ 48.009880] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
    [ 48.009971] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
    [ 57.358340] ndiswrapper: device wlan0 removed
    [ 57.359131] usbcore: deregistering interface driver ndiswrapper
    [ 57.430836] ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
    [ 57.462593] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (ASUS,02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0) loaded
    [ 57.472473] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 16
    [ 110.808094] wlan0: ethernet device 00:18:39:c0:fc:b5 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x3644000, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 14E4:4318.5.conf
    [ 110.809187] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
    [ 110.810146] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
    [ 592.708804] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

    Can anyone point me in the right direction. My laptop is an older Toshiba Satellite Pro A30 with a 2.1 GHz processor and 764 MB RAM.

    TIA

    P
    "We simply must accept the fact that Captain Kirk is no longer alive!"
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