broadcom 4306 wireless problem ubuntu 7.10

Could you please give us the result of running in terminal the following commands?

iwconfig
ifconfig
iwlist scan
dmesg

ocn@mobile:~$ iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
          Mode:Managed Frequency=2.472 GHz Access Point: Invalid
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=19 dBm
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

ocn@mobile:~$ ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:21:6A:55
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:650 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:27300 (26.6 KB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000

ocn@mobile:~$ iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 No scan results

demsg was too much info to post. thanks for your help though.

I put some more info on the website. Thanks.

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ifconfig
iwlist scan
dmesg

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Ah, well, eth# is usually assigned to wired network adapters. Wireless adapters usually have the ath# or wlan# device name. My own Broadcom wireless adapter was a pain to configure, but I managed to get it to work with ndiswrapper, which will allow you to use Windows drivers for otherwise unsupported wireless adapters.

To give us an idea what driver your current network adapter uses, could you post the results of the "lsmod" command?

:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
isofs 36412 1
udf 87204 0
i915 25856 2
drm 83348 3 i915
rfcomm 42136 2
l2cap 26240 11 rfcomm
bluetooth 57060 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 10244 0
snd_atiixp_modem 17160 0
snd_via82xx_modem 16264 0
snd_intel8x0m 18572 5
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_stats 7232 0
cpufreq_userspace 5280 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9612 0
freq_table 5792 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_conservative 8072 0
ac 6148 0
button 8976 0
container 5504 0
dock 10656 0
video 18060 0
battery 11012 0
sbs 19592 0
sbp2 24072 0
parport_pc 37412 0
lp 12580 0
parport 37448 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
snd_intel8x0 34972 1
snd_ac97_codec 100644 4 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
joydev 11328 0
ac97_bus 3200 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 44672 0
snd_mixer_oss 17664 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 80388 8 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4740 0
snd_seq_oss 33152 0
snd_seq_midi 9600 0
snd_rawmidi 25728 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8448 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
pcmcia 41388 0
bcm43xx 127336 0
ieee80211softmac 31360 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 35656 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 7040 1 ieee80211
pcspkr 4224 0
snd_seq 53232 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 24324 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9228 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
serio_raw 8068 0
psmouse 39952 0
yenta_socket 27532 1
rsrc_nonstatic 14080 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 40980 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd 54660 23 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8800 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11400 5 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
iTCO_wdt 11940 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4868 1 iTCO_wdt
intel_agp 25620 1
agpgart 35016 3 drm,intel_agp
evdev 11136 5
ext3 133896 1
jbd 60456 1 ext3
mbcache 9732 1 ext3
sg 36764 0
sr_mod 17828 1
cdrom 37536 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 30336 3
ata_generic 8452 0
ata_piix 17540 3
libata 125168 2 ata_generic,ata_piix
scsi_mod 147084 5 sbp2,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
b44 28300 0
mii 6528 1 b44
ohci1394 36528 0
ieee1394 96312 2 sbp2,ohci1394
ehci_hcd 36492 0
uhci_hcd 26640 0
usbcore 138632 3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal 14344 0
processor 32072 1 thermal
fan 5764 0
fuse 47124 1
apparmor 40728 0
commoncap 8320 1 apparmor

Ok, so you've got the bcm43xx "native" driver installed. Personally, I've never had any chance with it on my Broadcom card, so you're probably better off installing ndiswrapper.

Now this is a pretty long and involved process so I won't describe it, but this forum post has it pretty well described: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201902

Hello,I'm using notebook presario m2000 with broadcom 4318 (bcm4318) wireless device.
After trying for sometimes,I found a fastest way to activate my wireless.Even running with live cd in other machine which have same device.
1: download "bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu2_all.deb" from http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/pool/feisty-cafuego/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu2_all.deb
2: install that package
3: I waited 10 - 20 second ( according to speed of machine )
4: I typed at terminal "sudo modprobe bcm43xx"
n my wireless device work in excellent condition.
hope this help.....

the tutorial provided previously by Guillaume Tremblay Beaumont was great. i had to do a little tweaking but it is now working. thanks for your help.