Problem with Wireless/Broadcom 4312

Question

I have a problem connecting my Dell Vostro 1520 to the Internet by Wireless. The output of rfkill list is

0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 3: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no

I've tried other solutions like /etc/modprobe.d$ sudo gedit blacklist.conf and blcklisting the 43xx part, also tried getting sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer and sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter and at last I've tried installing th privative(?) drivers for the Wireless Card. (Broadcom STA Wireless Driver). The result of lspciis 0e:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01). Thanks. EDIT: it's obvious I've the switch turned on, but it says that wireless is disabled by harware switch.

Answer 1

Is this solved or not? Not sure with you recent edit.

If not I would remove any of the broadcom packages you have installed and start again from fresh. So fire up a terminal

sudo apt-get purge firmware-b43-installer b43-fwcutter

then I would install the other broadcom package which always works for me

sudo apt-get install  bcmwl-kernel-source

or if you prefer the other package

 sudo apt-get install  firmware-b43-installer b43-fwcutter

That has always worked for me in the past with Broadcom wifi

You can check if your wifi card is blacklisted if not by typing

cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | grep bcm

Anyway give it a go and let us know how you get on