[64studio-devel] 64studio-devel Digest, Vol 26, Issue 17

[J. Grant Boling]

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> Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 21:20:26 -0700
> From: "mike at sonicfrog.net" <mike at sonicfrog.net>
> Subject: [64studio-devel] Wifi????
> To: 64studio-devel at 64studio.com
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> I just tried to configure my broadcom 4306 using instructions for Etch 
> with no results. Anyone here have a method they have been happy with , 
> or a link to provide support for Wifi in 64 Studio?
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It just so happens that I spent a couple of days figuring this out for
myself!

Your best bet is to use ndiswrapper (the kernel driver doesn't do
802.11g yet AFAIK) with the drivers in this forum
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201902&highlight=broadcom+4306

I believe it's ndiswrapper-common, ndiswrapper-utils, and
ndiswrapper-modules
Then you need to install network-manager-gnome and probably
wpa_supplicant (assuming you're using gnome)
I found a link somewhere which says to comment out everything but the
loopback interface in /etc/network/interfaces .

Then the black magic, which only turned up after the 15th google or so:
add yourself to the netdev group!  Log out and back in and voila,

If you want ndiswrapper to start at boot, just add ndiswrapper to the
/etc/modules file.

Grant