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I have a Dell Vostro 3460 with one of the new Broadcom 43142 hybrid Wireless/Bluetooth chips. Neither the proprietary driver (wl) nor the b43 driver supports this.

lspci -nn gives me

01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1091] (rev 10)

I manage to install 1969:1091 with compat-wireless' alx, but could not find any alternative for this Broadcom 4365...

Do you guys know any driver for this controller? I am seriously considering to buy a compatible USB card?

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^^^not a duplicate, because no current public driver, i.e. wl, b43, etc. supports this new chipset. – izx Aug 15 '12 at 4:15

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12.04

Drivers for this are only officially available with the Vostro 3460 as provided by Dell.

However, based on the instructions and the Dell deb from the Vostro 3560 provided in this forum thread, I have created a modified DEB file that compiles and installs the driver on 12.04 (see thread for 11.10 link).

First, install the prerequisites by opening a terminal and pasting, one line at a time:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers$(uname -r | grep -Po "\-[a-z].*")
sudo apt-get install build-essential dkms

Please download the appropriate DEB file from Dropbox here:

Open a terminal, and install it with sudo dpkg -i.

Hopefully it works!

Edit: 12.04 now has an updated bcmwl-kernel-source package that reportedly supports BCM43142. bug#923809, comment 15

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Thanks for replying @izy. Is there any alternative driver for 12.04/10 32 bit? – rodrigo Aug 13 '12 at 5:02
The linked file should compile on 32-bit. Doesn't it? – izx Aug 13 '12 at 5:03
I get a dpkg error: package architecture (amd64) does not match system (i386) – rodrigo Aug 13 '12 at 5:05
@rodrigo: please see edited answer, download the 32-bit package and you should be good to go. – izx Aug 13 '12 at 9:04
sorry for the delay to get back on this, and thanks for providing the 32-bit version. I tried with both Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.10, but got similar dpkg errors: .../build/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:50:24: fatal error: asm/system.h: N compilation terminated. Am I missing anything? – rodrigo Aug 15 '12 at 3:51
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12.10

Please verify your pci.id with a terminal command:

    lspci -nn

Is it 14e4:4365? I am not sure it is even possible in a 32-bit system. If you have a 64-bit system and the device I mentioned, then I suggest this package: http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-bcm43142/wireless-bcm43142-dkms_6.20.55.19-1_amd64.deb

First install the prerequisites:

    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms

Then install the package with:

    cd Desktop   <--or wherever you downloaded the deb
    sudo dpkg -i wire*.deb
    sudo modprobe wl
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Awesome, that worked! Thanks alot! =) – Chelios Nov 12 '12 at 3:42
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This solution worked with Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit – ArtedeMagia.com Nov 17 '12 at 20:30
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I found this link works for me awesome

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=62666

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Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – Eliah Kagan Jan 5 at 7:09

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