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wifi won't connect

Asked by davidrachlin

I have an internal Broadcom 4318 wireless card which will not detect any networks. I have tried doing the firmware update a million times, but nothing comes up for the ESSID when I run ifconfig or iwconfig (i can't remember which).

I also have an external Motorola card with a Broadcom 4306 chipset which works fine when I drop it into my cardbus slot.

Any suggestions?

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Martin Kaufmann (martin.kaufmann) said : 		#1

Hi,

have you tried sudo iwlist <your wlandevice name like wlan0 or so> s in Terminal?
Seems that Broadcom makes some Errors:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=197102&highlight=ndiswrapper+howto

Hope that helps you

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som1special2 (c-perez) said : 		#2

Do you have a router at home? if so, do you have another cpu w/ internet connection?

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davidrachlin (davidrachlin) said : 		#3

yes... I have a router at home and when I'm using my Broadcom 4306 PCMCIA card I can connect fine. But when I'm using my internal wireless which is a broadcom 4318, it will not recognize the router.

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som1special2 (c-perez) said : 		#4

If you have another cpu at home log into your router and make sure broadcast ssid is ON. then try it again.

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