Update: Wireless is working

By | 2006/04/28

So I didn’t get to bed until past 1:00am last nite but I did get wireless working in Dapper Beta 2.

I finally used the bcm43xx-fwcutter package and used the included script found at: /usr/share/bcm43xx-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh.

I also added a little script to handle some of the oddities included in the new setup.  Note: I do not use WPA/WEP on my network.

#!/bin/bash
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interface=wlan0
broadcast=havana
sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo modprobe bcm43xx

# setting wireless device parameters
sudo ifconfig $interface up
sudo iwconfig $interface essid $broadcast
sudo iwconfig $interface mode managed
sudo iwconfig $interface key off
sudo dhclient $interface

(yes, I changed my /dev to wlan0 from eth1 in /etc/iftab)