Questions tagged [broadcom]
Broadcom wireless cards are known to have compatibility issues in Linux systems, and this tag should be used for questions about getting wireless working well on Ubuntu when a Broadcom card is involved. Installing additional drivers or adjusting configurations can usually resolve issues. Please check your hardware and search for related questions, and include all relevant information when posting.
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Driver needed for wireless adapter WNA3100
As many questions before me, I am trying to get Netgear's WNA3100 to work on my Ubuntu machine.
I googled, I searched the forum, turns out the link everyone points to to get the actual driver is dead....
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No Wireless with broadcom BCM4350 Ubuntu 16.04
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on an Dell XPS 13 9350 (skylake)
Since the old kernel doesn't support the broadcom wireless card I updated to ubuntu 16.04, coming from 15.10. The 4.4 kernel should support ...
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I really need help installing the Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 Driver!
I hope someone can help! Well here is a description: I am new to Ubuntu, and just installed it. I am having allot of trouble getting my wifi adapter to work... here is the model: Broadcom Corporation ...
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Next problem with wlan0
I have installed Ubuntu 14 and can't connect to WiFi. Tried to find solutions by myself but still things don't work out.
Steps I have taken:
Went to Software And Updates -> additional Drivers and ...
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Nothing displays for wifi connections
I just installed ubuntu to my external HDD. This is the first time ive ever used ubuntu. Up until now ive only used windows. My problem is that i can not get my wifi to work on ubuntu. It works on ...
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ubuntu wireless on hp stream 11 [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on hp stream 11. Wireless device is not being detected.
Windows detects it as Broadcom BCM43142 802.11 bgn.
Is it possible to get the drivers for Ubuntu and install ...
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Ubuntu 15.10 - No internet connection with Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n Wireless Driver
I've seen many issues with this posted before (usually on earlier versions of Ubuntu). I've followed the extensive guide posted on Broadcom drivers, and all the other "solutions" people have posted (...
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Have to run rmmod b43 ; sudo rmmod bcma ; sudo rmmod wl ; sudo modprobe wl after restart? [duplicate]
I have a Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01) and unless I run rmmod b43 ; sudo rmmod bcma ; sudo rmmod wl ; sudo modprobe wl after restart, the wireless device isn't ...
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Wifi problem Broadcom BCM4352
I have a problem with getting the wifi on Ubuntu 14.04 on Lenovo Y50-70 to work. I have the problematic Broadcom BCM4352 card, I already installed the newest drivers, disabled the ideapad and done ...
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Stopped finding a specific wifi network, live works fine [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu 14.04.3 on a Dell Studio 1558 laptop with wi-fi adapter Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01). My home modem/router is an EasyBox 803.
Suddenly my Ubuntu doesn't even ...
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How do I troubleshoot a Broadcom wireless card (BCM43224 , 14e4:4353)?
I am having problems connecting to Wifi with a dell laptop, using BCM43224 , 14e4:4353. Sometimes it works fine but on other days I am unable to access any webpages although I can see the network name ...
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Sony Vaio Pro Duo 13 SDIO Broadcom BCM43241 Not Recognized
For the solution skip to the very bottom of this post. Keeping all track changes for anyone else looking for this.
I've decided since the original post is no longer updated, I'm going to start a new ...
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Wlan driver fails to auto-load in Xubuntu 14.04
I installed Xubuntu 14.04 on my dad's laptop, it has a Broadcom 43 wireless chip that works fine with the wl driver, but it fails to load at boot. If I run
sudo modprobe wl
, the wlan connects ...
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Wifi not connecting automatically on boot
I have finally got the Broadcom wifi network card to work--Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01). This article was very helpful. However, every time I boot the computer, I ...
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No wifi on HP Pavilion DV7 with Ubuntu 12,04 [duplicate]
I recently updated to 14.04 but I found a whole lot of problems and decided to revert my changes with a clean install of 12.04. I didn't have any problems with the wifi before but now I can't seem to ...
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My wireless card doesnot support AP mode. Is it the end?
When I run iwconfig, it doesnot list AP under supported features. My aim is to start a WiFi hotspot with my laptop. So is that it? All hopes lost?
It is to be added that my friend who has the same ...
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cannot use wifi broadcom 802.11 alternative driver in ubuntu 15.04
I have a dell Inspiron 11 with the Broadcom 802.11 driver.
Playing with Ubuntu 15.04 live cd it works ok. I have to select additional drivers, check on "Using Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless ...
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Definitive Guide to Wifi Dropping Consistently
This age-old problem seems to never go away.
There are thousands of threads related to Wi-Fi dropping constantly. Unfortunately, almost all of them seem to have quick hack suggestions and no real ...
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Wi-Fi stops working frequently [duplicate]
I recently keep having the problem that my internet stops working. On firefox, I get server not found. And the usual make sure that you didn't type ww instead of www.
Wi-Fi is still connected. A ...
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Wireless Driver for Broadcom BCM 4312 will not stay connected to a wireless network
I have a HP Pavillion dv6000 with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and a Broadcom wireless card (BCM4312).
My Ethernet connection is fine. But when the wifi is turned on, it will stay connected for a short time and ...
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Wireless Not Working Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
Wireless isn't working in ubuntu 14.04, even after installing bcmwl-kernel-source package & enabling it via:
Software & Update/Additional Drivers
Also, There are no options to enable a ...
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Cannot connect to 5GHz band with b43 driver
I am using Lubuntu 14.10 on my Macbook 3,1 and I switched to the b43 driver as suggested here. The problem I have with this driver is that I cannot detect and connect to the 5GHz band wifi networks.
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Cannot scan for WiFi networks with BCM4321
I believe I followed this guide for installing WiFi drivers for my Broadcom 4321 chipset, but alas I still get the following:
arjun@perseus:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results
For ...
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Lubuntu compaq nc6000 WiFi Driver Help
I installed Lubuntu 12.04 LTS on my HP Compaq NC 6000.
Currently, everything except WiFi works well. I've looked online at forums both for the card (Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless ...
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My Ubuntu 14.04 Wifi not working Toshiba L650 tried everything [duplicate]
########## wireless info START ##########
Report from: 09 Mar 2015 18:16 IST +0530
Booted last: 09 Mar 2015 18:07 IST +0530
Script from: 20 Sep 2014 23:04 UTC +0000
##### release ##################...
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Wifi (Broadcom BCM43225) not working on 14.04 LTS x64
I have this on my Acer 3820 Notebook:
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1073] (rev c0)
Subsystem: Acer ...
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Wireless connection issue in Kernel 3.16
I have upgraded my Dell Vostro 1720 laptop to 14.04.2, Kernel 3.16 (from 14.02, Kernel 3.13) but now I have no access to wireless networks. My Broadcom driver PCI is 14e4:432b. I've spent hours ...
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Broadcom wireless driver doesn't work in ubuntu 14.04. My pci id is [14e4:43b1] (rev 03)
I'm dual booting win 8 and Ubuntu on Yoga 3 Pro. I had the same issues as other users:
When I installed Ubuntu, the wifi wouldn't work until I blacklist'd ideapad_laptop.
then touchpad/touchscreen ...
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Cannot connect to WiFi network wirelessly using Broadcom
I have followed the first answer from Intalling Broadcom Wireless Drivers which told me that the required firmware is installed by default, the package linux-firmware.
I tried this, but it didn't ...
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Disconnection issues
As I'm using WiFi, the computer I use, sometimes disconnects, as my router switches off periodically. But when its back on, Ubuntu won't connect to it, and will ask me the Router WPA key.
Is there ...
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Compaq 6510b can't connect to wireless network on Ubuntu 14.04.1
I have been trying to connect to my wireless network for weeks, tried a bunch of new and legacy open source and Broadcom STA-proprietary drivers for BCM4311 (103c:1371, wl) without the option to ...
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Broadcom wireless driver doesn't work in ubuntu 14.04. My pci id is [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Ever since I installed Ubuntu 14.04 the wifi has stopped working. The pci id is : [14e4:4727] (rev 01). Any solutions?
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After installing Ubuntu the Broadcom network adapter is not functioning. How can I fix this?
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on an old Acer Aspire 3680 last night. Previous to the install everything worked fine. I was able to connect to Wifi. Since the install I have not been able to.
All I ...
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Unable to connect to mixed b/g/n wifi network on Ubuntu
I cannot connect to mixed b/g/n wifi Network. I am using wl drivers. Connection to other wifi networks is working well, but to this network I cannot connect from Ubuntu (from my android phone ...
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ndiswrapper driver problem
I'm trying to solve my wifi problem by installing the driver, for that i think i should install the windows driver using ndiswrapper, the problem is when i want to install the driver using this ...
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Lubuntu Wireless Driver for BCM4309 [14e4:4324] (rev 02) [duplicate]
I have installed Lubuntu on an old Dell D600 laptop. Everything is working great except for the wireless Ethernet card.
"lspci -vnn -d 14e4:" reveals the following:
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Broadcom Corporation ...
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No wireless after ugrade from 11.10 to 12.04
Finally upgraded to 12.04 LTS on a Dell 630 Latitude and the wireless stopped working after reboot.
Have tried to install STA, b43 even NDISwrapper in various ways due to crappy slow internet and it'...
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Can't connect to the wifi
I have ubuntu 14.04 and when I want to connect to the wifi my network manager found nothing and when I use this command
sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
It can find my essid wifi and when I use this ...
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Wifi drivers won't work after I upgraded kernel to 3.4 for ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
My wifi support got broken after I upgraded my kernel from 3.2 to 3.4 for ubuntu 12.04. I know I need to use sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer but whenever I type it into terminal, I get:
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Installation taking a very long time, hangs at "Configuring bcmwl-kernel-source" [closed]
I am installing Ubuntu 14.04(32-bit) on my laptop (Compaq Presario V2000), and after about 7 hours, it is still in Configuring bcmwl-kernel-source (i386) mode. The messages I read are as follows:
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Broadcom Card not Working
Just installed Lubuntu 14.04. Like so many others, can't get the Broadcom card to work. Have tried just about all the recommendations I can find, but still no luck. Ethernet works fine, but there ...
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Broadcom B4311 Drivers Installed and Non-Functional
Just did a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 on an HP laptop with a Broadcom 4311 wireless card. I've installed the following packages in an attempt to find the driver for it.
b43-fwcutter
firmware-b43-...
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Wifi won't work on 14.04
I have tried to install B43 using cutter and STA wifi drivers for Ubuntu 14.04 on an HP Compaq nx6310, but it just won't work. Wired ethernet only works with the live CD. Any help on the exact ...
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Acer R7 -- Broadcom wireless driver does not load
This belongs in the category weird and freaky.
I have one of the fancy "Ezel hinge" Acer R7 touch screen laptops. (i5, 12 GB RAM)
Installing Linux to dual boot with Windows 8 is a pain... ...
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install problem with Broadcom driver--apparent disk label mismatch
I'm installing Ubuntu 13.10 on an Acer laptop which incorporates a Broadcom 4312 wifi adapter. When I was running off the live CD (from the 32 bit download) I was able to install the required bmcwl-...
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I can't connect to internet : network manager is disabled
Everything began when I was trying to use aircrack-ng suite on my ubuntu 12.04.
I found on aircrack-ng website (http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=b43) that using a Broadcom driver and a wl ...
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Ubuntu apparently doesn't recognize wireless adapter
I want to install Ubuntu 13.10 on an older Acer laptop. I'm running the live CD, and Ubuntu doesn't recognize the Broadcom 802.11g wireless adapter. Windows Vista connects no problem. I'm a newbie, ...
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Ubuntu 13.10 won't connect to the Internet - BCM4312
I've installed Ubuntu 13.10 on a netbook from a USB, replacing the Windows 7 that came with it, and now it doesn't connect to the internet (it did connect when it was running Windows).
It also doesn't ...
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Broadcom BCM4321 cannot find networks
I've spend a couple of hours now trying to get my wifi card working. I moved the PCI-card from a working machine to a new one. Both running Ubuntu 12.04. The card worked fine in the first machine but ...
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Acer Aspire-R7 WiFi
Will Ubuntu ever support the Acer Aspire-R7? It uses a custom Broadcom chipset. I even tried using an external USB 'EnGenius Wireless N', but the driver crashes. I give up at this point. I don't have ...