Getting Dell BCM4328 Wifi Card Working on Ubuntu 7.10

Written by hasin

After trying,searching and crying for more than one month, I finally get it working today in my laptop (Dell Inspiron 6400) 🙂 – I am one of the happiest ever in this world right now :D. here’s how to. All the credit goes to “kayvortex”

Model of my wifi card is “Broadcom BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)”

Steps

1. Install Ndiswrapper Common and Ndiswrapper Utils (You can do it using synaptic)
2. Download The Driver from ftp://ftp.dell.com/network/R151517.EXE and unzip it somewhere. You will see a folder named DRIVER
3. Execute the following commands


sudo ndiswrapper -i /download_directory/DRIVER/bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -l
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

4. Then, set ndiswrapper to load on startup:

sudo ndiswrapper -m
gksudo gedit /etc/modules

and add the following module to the list


ndiswrapper

5. Restart (This is a must)

Now you can use Fn+F2 to turn on your wifi 😀 )