Ubuntu

Broadcom wifi card not connecting to NETGEAR network, even with ndiswrapper

Bug #180421 reported by Seth Wallace
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Bug Description

Recently switched to ubuntu 7.10 from xp. Using broadcom 43xx wifi card. Installed ndiswrapper driver. Will connect to other networks, but not a NETGEAR one, which is my primary internet access. Connected on xp. Ubuntu says it has established connection, but there is no network activty. I even get a connectivity percentage. Unable to access wireless router. Please help.

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Gökdeniz Karadağ (gokdeniz) wrote :

The kernel in hardy comes with a new broadcom driver, namely "b43" can you try with 8.04 hardy ?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote : Closing the report

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

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