On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:10 PM, David C. Rankin
I hope somebody can point me in the right direction. I have a small dell I moved into our TV console to use as a media center box. I installed a wireless usb adapter 'WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231]' to join the box to our wireless network. The box dual-boots and works fine under xp, so after reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless and not finding the model in the kernel driver, I decided to try ndiswrapper. I have run into an issue that I'm stuck on.
First, have you tried the generic broadcom-wl driver instead of ndiswrapper? It causes some problems sometimes, but in my experience it is pretty much the easiest way to get a Broadcom card working that is not in the kernel. You can install it from AUR or build it yourself after downloading the source from broadcom (there's a link in the wiki). You might have to blacklist b43 and/or ssb because those can cause conflicts with the wl module sometimes. However, I found some similar issue on Ubuntu, which was a version conflict problem. There was some older version of ndiswrapper in Ubuntu's packet manager which was not compatible with the kernel, so the fix was to manually install a newer version. Might be a long shot, but if nothing works, you might try to install ndiswrapper-1.57rc1 instead of 1.56 (the version in pacman). I'm not sure if the 1.57rc1 is in the testing repos, but you can get it from SourceForge if not. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/files/ Tell me if anything of this works for you.