Broadcom 43xx & Nvidia 3D acceleration not working

I have just installed Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy on my HP dv6424 (see sig for specs). The Broadcom wireless card won't work, even after using the Restricted Drivers manager and installing the two packages ndiswrapper-utils and ndiswrapper-commons from Synaptic.

Additionally, I need 3D acceleration in order to get CompizFusion working, but this has proven difficult. Ubuntu tried to automatically install the package nvidia-glx-new, but the resolution decreased greatly, and I could not change it via the Preferences menu. Any help is much appreciated.

 

The easiest way to install the proprietary video drivers for Nvidia (and ATI) is a program called Envy. I highly recommend it.

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I had trouble using Ndiswrapper, but the newer kernels (2.6.22?) have decent native bcm43xx support. The following worked under 7.04 on my Inspiron 1520 with a dell 1390 (bcm43xx):

Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

Code:

deb http://ubuntu.cafuego.net edgy-cafuego bcm43xx

Get the repo key:

Code:

wget http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/969F3F57.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Update package list and install the broadcom firmware

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-firmware

Load the kernel module (if you blacklisted it for ndiswrapper, make sure to remove it from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist)

Code:

sudo modprobe bcm43xx

Now the WiFi light should come on and you should see the interface listed:

Code:

iwconfig

Hope this helps!

 

I haven't tried that, thanks for the instructions. Did you pull this off a How-to by any chance?

 

Yeah, I should have credited the Ubuntu documentation site. The instructions were made for Edgy, but they worked for me with Feisty. Hopefully they'll work for Gutsy too.

 

I will try these instructions as soon as I get home and plug into my home network.

 

Thanks for the help Altimar, but I don't think that I have time required to get my webcam, microphone, graphics card, modem, and wireless working. I tried at least 3 tutorials and 2 reinstallations of Ubuntu after breaking it; I'm not going to spend any more time on it.