Please note b43 developers don't offer support for the STA wl driver due to the fact that it's mainly proprietary. Contact Broadcom's support. If you have few drivers installed, system may auto-load different driver than the one you wanted to use. Manual un loading drivers can be done with modprobe tool.
To unload all known drivers you can pick only one command, if you know which driver is in use perform:. It is possible to prevent system from auto-loading some drivers by blacklisting them. This can be done with the following command:. If you plan to use wl , you should blacklist b43 and brcmsmac as well as bcma.
Unfortunately wl does not use bcma bus driver, so this additional step is required. Many people have donated money, hardware or other services to make this driver possible. Please see the donations page for details. Note: Broadcom USB devices are handled by the brcmfmac driver. Please read this whole document and the FAQ before asking questions to the developers.
Problem was fixed in 3. Using PIO module param can be used as workaround for 2. A workaround for older kernel is to use PIO mode b To find out whether a PCI device is supported by the b43 or b43legacy drivers, issue this lspci command: The command will output a string similar to this example: Ignore everything, except the last part inside of the [ ].
G r2 14e partially BCM? N 6 14e4:a8d8 yes 3. For a list of available devices, please see the device list. Please note that we do not support wl or brcm drivers. IRC: server is irc. LEDs to signal card state and traffic. Meanwhile the 10 year old laptop in question developed a power supply problem. Still, good innings. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Connect your laptop with a wired connection and test your internet connection works. Search in Dash for Additional Drivers and it should open a window and offer you to install the bcutter - activate this.
If the above doesnt work, then the missing firmware can be found by installing the following package: sudo apt-get install firmware-binstaller. Improve this answer. I short, step 3 failed. It yielded "no proprietary drivers". Step 4 works perfectly. My problem was that my card was reported as BCM by lspci.
This is a legacy device as per the linux b43 wireless instructions. I wrongly installed the legacy firmware. All that is required is the firmwareinstaller instead. Also, in case you don't have any internet access on the machine in question, check out my related answer. EDIT: Above as a small shell script, for easy cut and paste.
Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. If it is not, please edit your question to add some diagnostics:. This is confirmed as working on Ubuntu The laptop I fixed is bit, and it won't run Ubuntu This should also work for Ubuntu Almost all Broadcom cards are supported though, so cross your fingers :.
You will get no errors this time on startup, and your wireless will work. If it doesn't work, please edit your question to add the results of running some diagnostics:. Thank you for your interest in this question.
Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site the association bonus does not count. Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead? In recent versions of Ubuntu and Debian,. Use version of bfwcutter. This is basically a Broadcom Download firmware-binstaller.
Download for all available architectures; Debian — Details of package firmware- b43 -lpphy-installer in. Both the b43 and b43legacy drivers conflict with the broadcom-wl driver,. Install Broadcom B43 wireless driver in Linux Raw. Apr 19, Works fine under
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