Broadcom wireless cards have proven to be a consistent thorn for many Linux user. There are however in Ubuntu several choices and most users usually find that their needs are met either by installing Broadcom's own drivers or ones created using open source software.
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How to Install a Broadcom Wireless Driver
I'm having serious problems installing the Broadcom drivers for Ubuntu. It worked perfectly on my previous version, but now, it is impossible. I'm a user with no advance knowledge in Linux, so I would ...
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How can I get Broadcom BCM4311 Wireless working? [duplicate]
Wireless was worked perfectly in ubuntu 10.10. Now I upgraded it to ubuntu 11.04. After this upgrade wireless is not working in my laptop, even "wireless connection" is not showing in network ...
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Wireless doesn't work on a Broadcom BCM4312 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Install Broadcom / STA Wireless card (BCM43XX)
As stated, I've just upgraded to 12.04 and my Dell Inspiron 1545 isn't recognising its wireless card and I was ...
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How do I get my Broadcom BCM4313 working correctly?
I've installed ubuntu on a Asus 1015 netbook. Everything worked out of the box except for the Wireless adapter, which i had to install with the Additional Drivers application.
It apparently installed ...
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How do I get an Acer Npilfy 802.11 wireless card working?
My Laptop is Acer 5742G with "Npilfy 802.11 wireless".
I have both windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10
Earlier when I had Ubuntu 12.04, the wireless was working fine, but after installing 12.10 wireless is ...
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How do I install BCM4312 wireless drivers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Install Broadcom / STA Wireless card (BCM43XX)
completely new to Ubuntu. How do I add Wireless driver for my laptop? I am running a Dell XPS M1330. Right now its ...
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How do I get the Broadcom BCM4313 wireless working on an Asus 1015PX?
I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Asus 1015PX which is certified by Canonical. My WiFi is not working. I read about the BCM4313 troubles and tried
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How do I get a Broadcom BCM4313 wireless card working?
I upgraded Ubuntu from 11.10 to 12.04, until which wireless was working just fine. After the upgrade and reboot, wireless is not even being detected (When I click the network manager icon in the top ...
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How do you get the Broadcom BCM4306 wireless card working?
I've done a fresh install of Natty 11.04.
I have a Broadcom BCM4306 wireless network card and it failed to come up. It said no drivers installed.
After a bit of reading, I installed the b43-fwcutter ...
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Dell Inspiron 5720 Wifi (Broadcom BCM43142, Ubuntu 12.10) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install BCM43142 wireless drivers for Dell Vostro 3460/3560?
I've installed Ubuntu 12.10 on Dell Inspiron 5720. Cant get wifi to work.
sudo lshw -C network:
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Broadcom 4365 wireless driver with 3.4 / 3.5 kernel [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Install Broadcom / STA Wireless card (BCM43XX)
I used this package to install the driver on 3.2 Kernel and it was working perfectly.
Unfortunately the system ...
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Broadcom STA driver doesn't work well with BCM4313
Following on from my other question about our new Samsung Q330, I've noticed that the wireless is incredibly flakey. It can connect but after a little use, especially if it does a lot of downloading ...
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How do I get a Broadcom BCM4312 wireless card to work? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Install Broadcom Wireless card (BCM43XX)
I am currently using Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop , the model of my wireless chip is broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY .
I ...
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WiFi does not work, Broadcom STA Wireless driver does not work on a BCM4313 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Install Broadcom Wireless card (BCM43XX)
I'm newbie in Linux and Ubuntu, but would like to improve my skills :)
I just installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop ...
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Dell inspiron 1545 wired and wireless do not work
When I realized my wireless wasn't working with ubuntu, I plugged my laptop in to try and figure out the problem online - only to find it doesn't work that way, either. The problem isn't my internet/ ...
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Broadcom Wireless BCM4313 on 12.04 LTS [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Install Broadcom / STA Wireless card (BCM43XX)
Can’t connect to any wireless connection after updating
Using wireless successfully on 2 DELL VOSTRO 3500 ...
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How do I get a Broadcom BCM43225 wireless card working?
I updated my 12.04 today and it broke my wireless connection on Acer Aspire 5942G.
isa@ubuntu: iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
isa@ubuntu: lspci|grep ...
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Broadcom BCM4313 on 11.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get Broadcom BCM 43XX Wireless card working
Okay so I've this afternoon updated the family laptop to 11.10. But our broadcom BCM4313 wireless card has stopped ...
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Wireless connection is lost periodically and without apparent reason and is quickly reestablished on a BCM4312
My wireless connection has lost stability after I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04. It used to remain connected for as long as there was signal, but now I get periodic disconnects which ...
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Lenovo b570 Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 wireless doesn't work
prumar@bluelaptop:~$ rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
2: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
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Could anyone help me get my NETGEAR WNA3100 (Broadcom BCM43231) wireless adapter to work?
I have just moved back to Ubuntu from Windows 7 and a few months ago, I bought a NETGEAR WNA3100 wireless adapter because my old adapter had broken. I plugged in my adapter and it doesn't seem to ...
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Broadcom BCM4331: “device not ready firmware missing” error
Just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I can't connect to my wireless network. My network doesn't even appear. I have a message it says:
device not ready firmware missing.
This is what I get when I ...
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How do I get my BCM43228 card working in mainline kernel 3.4 or higher?
I followed https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds to install kernel 3.4 and 3.5 from debs.
Unfortunately after booting I can't connect to the internet cause I have problems with my network ...
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How do I install this patched b43 driver?
Recently I purchased a Macbook Pro that has a BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi card that does not work with the default kernel.
sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
MacBookPro8,2
lspci |grep 4331
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Broadcom 4313 Signal strength very low on an HP Pavilion dv4
I have a HP pavilion dv4 4141US laptop running fresh ubuntu 11.10. This laptop has a broadcom 4313gn chipset for the network card. The network card is using the brcmsmac driver. Which, I heard else ...
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BCM4311 Wireless Not Working with Drivers Installed
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my old Compaq/Hp Preario V3000 to replace Windows XP.
Every thing works fine except I'm getting no wireless network options in the network drop down menu. I'm using a cable ...
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No firmware found for Broadcom wireless card (BCM4318) on Dell Latitude D610
Trying to get my 03:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) working. I just reformated and installed 12.04 on this old ...
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Dell 1390 wireless (BCM4311) Ubuntu 12.04 no wireless icon in unity
I have a Dell Inspiron 1520, which has the Dell Wireless 1390 card (based on the BCM4311 chipset). During installation, Ubuntu 12.04 detected the device and installed the Broadcom STA driver. ...
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Wireless doesn't work on a Broadcom BCM4311 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Broadcom BCM4311 Wireless not working
I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop. The wifi worked perfectly when I had 10.10 installed, the system says that the driver is ...
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How can I reinstall Broadcom STA drivers?
I'm having problems enabling the Broadcom STA proprietary wireless driver.
I was using it previously, since I installed Ubuntu 10.10. I found out recently that this was causing problems with wired ...
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Installing wireless drivers without internet access [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I install and download drivers without internet?
(This is related to my other question; my approach there didn't work.)
My friend has (I'm quite sure) a ...
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Where to get Dell Inspiron 1545 drivers for the Dell 1397 wlan minicard wireless card?
I cant seem to find the drivers for my Dell Wireless WLAN 1397 Minicard for ubuntu 11.04 andone know how i can get them and install them im sort of new to ubuntu?
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WiFi problem after Ubuntu 12.10 update
I just updated my Ubuntu 12.10 today and it went fine and I was told to restart system and after I restart my WiFi stopped working. Mine is Broadcom BCM4312 card . It was working fine just before the ...
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Slow Wireless Reconnect After Suspend
I a Broadcom 4312 using the STA drivers, I reinstalled ubuntu because the b43 drivers were giving me a huge hassle along with some weird kernel issues.
My wireless speed is fine, everything works ...
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WiFi stops working after waking from suspend with a Broadcom 43225
wired connection works but I am forced to reboot if I want wifi to start working again.
I have an acer one 721-3801 on 10.10. help?
I have the broadcom 43225 driver if that helps... (I am very new ...
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Package dependency problem (offline install of wireless drivers)
I have a friend wanting to install Ubuntu 10.10 as a dual-boot with Windows through Wubi. Unfortunately, he has a wireless card with a Broadcom chipset, and needs to install the drivers. There is no ...
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Broadcom wireless 43142 conflict Atheros 8161 in kernel 3.5 (unbuntu 12.10)
I am exactly in the situation of this question. However, my wireless card is a different model: I have a dell vostro 3460 with an Atheros AR8161 Ethernet card and a Broadcom 43142 wireless card. I ...
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No Wireless connectivity after installing Ubuntu 12.10 on Windows 8
I am new to Ubuntu/Linux.
I have installed the Ubuntu 12.10 version on Windows 8. After installation, there is no wireless connectivity. I have searched the forums and tried things that have worked ...
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My Lenovo Ideapad u165 wireless doesn't work
It really makes me ANGRY ! my wireless hardware is broadcom 4313 . ubuntu install it automatically but I can't use it . It says your hardware switch is off although it is on . after I use " rfkill ...
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Wireless does not work on HP DV6000 with a BCM4311 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I get Broadcom BCM4311 Wireless working?
Wireless doesn't work on a Broadcom BCM4312
wireless does not work on HP DV6000 with Ubuntu 12.04
i have been ...
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Broadcom 4312 wireless issues [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Install Broadcom / STA Wireless card (BCM43XX)
I know theres a plethora of other questions and some are "Solved" out there for this same issue but I've run ...
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Can't connect to wireless on a Dell Latitude 620
I have just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a Dell 620 Latitude. I am new to Linux and am not very techie. I cannot see how to connect to a wireless network. For the avoidance of doubt I cannot 'see' any ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Broadcom wireless not working after b43 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Wireless doesn't work on a Broadcom BCM4312
I have a Dell laptop. I was running Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit. During that time wireless was working fine. Yesterday I updated ...
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Broadcom open source drivers available in Maverick?
I have a laptop with a broadcom BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n wireless adapter and its using the proprietary STA drivers (perfectly), however I thought broadcom released open source drivers and that they ...
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Can't get BCM4331 wireless working right
I have Ubuntu 12.10 on my Macbook Pro, which has BCM4331 for wifi. It's been working fairly well, except I've been having a problem that the connection will randomly stop working. Ubuntu still says ...
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Why does “Additional Drivers” Fail?
When trying to Activate, Broadcom B43legacy wireless driver I get the following error,
SystemError: installArchives() failed.
Please help.
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Broadcom Corp. BCM4313 Wirelss not detected in Ubuntu 12.10
I update my Toshiba PORTÉGÉ from Precise(12.04) to Quantal (12.10). After update to Precise wireless device works fine. But after update wireless device is not detect on network manager.
The lspci ...
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Why has wireless disappeared after my 12.10 upgrade?
I just upgraded to 12.10 on my Lenovo B570 laptop. NetworkManager isn't displaying a submenu for wireless connections at all, even though I downloaded the update through the wireless connection. This ...
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After upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04, my Broadcom STA Wireless driver is not working [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Install Broadcom Wireless card (BCM43XX)
I upgraded my HP DV5-1000US Laptop to Ubuntu 12.04. But I cannot get it connected to the Wireless. I went through the ...
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Firmware missing for Broadcom 802.11b/g Adapter? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you get the Broadcom BCM4306 wireless card working?
I have a HP Pavilion zx5280us laptop (it says HP Pavilion zx5000 on the physical laptop but it's really an HP ...
