Little bit of wireless help, please. [solved]

I'm stuck and would really appreciate it if someone could walk me through the steps toward getting wireless working. I've followed the wiki entry to the letter (I think--something's obvously not right) using the fwcutter method. lsmod shows
ieee80211softmac 30720 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 33736 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 6016 1 ieee80211
but ifconfig -a only shows eth0 and lo
I found the netcfg wiki page too and that gave me hope that my stupid broadcom chipset can work.
I'll provide the relevant output of lspci just to get started. What am I missing? What did I do wrong?
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01)
need more?
Last edited by scrawler (2008-05-05 11:39:07)

I have the same wireless adapter.
I removed bcm43xx from modules in rc.conf. You can add it to modules blacklist but i think it is deprecated.
I installed ndiswrapper, downloaded the file SP34152.exe (you can google for this) used cabextract to extract it to a separate folder.
cd to the folder
as root
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
installed wicd - added it to daemons, removed network from daemons in rc.conf (wicd has to start after dbus)
added ndiswrapper to modules in rc.conf.
added myself to group daemon with gpasswd -a arun daemons as root.
Open wicd, then i is easy to configure wireless.
I think wlan0 is not standard in all systems for b43. You can check your wireless adapter def with lspci. It is eth1 in some systems. If you want to use b43, you will have to install the firmware. You dmesg will give you the http address where the firmware is available. Then it is installable. But I am comfortable with ndiswrapper

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