From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Wireless Card
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:53:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54218974.5020206@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54217172.9090306@googlemail.com>
On 09/23/2014 08:11 AM, Mark Sibley wrote:
> Dear Sir / Madam
> I Have got an old Dell Inspirin 300 laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 32 Bit but
> the wireless card does not work . I have done some research and found that it is
> pretty awkward to fix . The card in question is a Broardcom BCM 4318 [14e4:4318]
> rev 02 . I have tried various Terminal commands but to no avail .I have fairly
> basic knowledge , and would really appreciate some help . I am at present using
> a USB wireless adaptor . Regards Mark
I use a BCM4318 without difficulty. If you look at the output of the dmesg
command, you will likely see that the firmware is missing. For legal reasons, no
distro is allowed to redistribute such firmware in the manner used by other
manufacturers. To overcome this issue, the b43 developers have created a program
to "cut" such firmware from a driver for some other system. I am not an Ubuntu
user, thus I am not familiar with how this process is implement. The b43 wiki at
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Ubuntu.2FDebian says you should
use the command:
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
It further states "In recent versions of Ubuntu and Debian, installing the
firmware-b43-installer package will handle everything for you. You will be asked
to automatically fetch and install the firmware into the right location. Again,
you will need an internet connection." It sounds as if that is all you will need.
If you have already installed the firmware, and you have a different problem,
then we will need a more complete description.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-23 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-23 13:11 Wireless Card Mark Sibley
2014-09-23 14:22 ` Javier Domingo Cansino
2014-09-23 14:53 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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