BCM4318 64 bit driver [SOLUTION]

[oiper]

Hey all, just posting a link to a windows driver that worked for my 64 bit laptop.

Compaq Presario V2311US - AMD Turion™ 64 Processor ML-28 PowerNow - ATI RADEON® XPRESS 200M IGP

lspci | grep Broadcom

[JellyTot]

Thank you, I'll give it a try and see what happens.

[rawbeefman]

That doesnt work for me for some reason. Is there a special way of installing it?
- Ehren

[oiper]

Actually I should note that only ndiswrapper version 1.2 works with the driver.

See my initial post, I've made some changes.
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[Onkobu]

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-391450-highlight-.html

BTW: it's important on which machine you run that driver. I tried at least 4 differen 64bit drivers, only the one for the aspire ferrari notebook worked. Others reported kernel paging fault-whatever-errors, invalid driver messages and so on...

[oiper]

good point. Now noted in post.
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[rawbeefman]

When I modprobe mine, my computer slows to a halt and FREEZES! First time I've ever seen that one happen! I'm using the driver for the aspire/ferrari on a ferrari.

[Onkobu]

$> ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5

executed with no errors, /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/ exists AND contains bcmwl5.ini, some SYS and a 14E4:4318.conf? What are the last lines in /var/log/messages? Please also do something like (exec as root:

$> ndiswrapper -l

and

$>lspci | grep -i broadcom

(You can find the syslog-messages better if you exec:

$>logger "================"; modprobe ndiswrapper

first command 'logger' writes '============' to /var/log/messages and after this line you see ndiswrapper's logging, if lspci is not found, emerge pciutils)

[theborg]

Got the "FREEZE" - Problem too. the new version 1.5 of ndiswrapper solved it. u can download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/ and build it, there's no ebuild yet.

ahh, and i tried a thousands driver. finally the acer driver worked fine for me.