bcm4312 [Solved]

[smeghead67]

Im planning on installing 10.10 64bit on a Dell Studio 1537. It is running a core 2 duo 3GB RAM.

I'm running off of the live cd at the moment so keep that in mind with your responces.

my problem is the wifi it is a Broadcom 4312 rev1. After i made sure the switch was on, as it wasn't at first. Network manger says the driver is b43.

when i try ifconfig -a, I get

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:5f:4a:22:a9
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

So I issue

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

i get

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

any ideas?

Ted

[arochester]

Re: bcm4312

First, try the easy way. Look in your Menu for an item called "Hardware Drivers." Open that. Does the driver for your wireless card appear in there? If it does, temporarily, connect your computer by wire and click the Enable button. It takes a little while. It should download, install and enable the driver. REBOOT. Job done.

Second, if that doesn't work, try:
1) Connect by wire
2) sudo apt-get update
3) sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
4) modprobe -r b43
5) modprobe b43

[smeghead67]

Re: bcm4312

That worked, Im running the live cd so a reboot will erase it. I will work on convincing my wife to let me either dual boot or wipe it. its a vista machine and she is afraid i'll ruin it.

I look at it as setting it free.

[smeghead67]

Re: bcm4312

I installed it as a dual boot.

It detected the wifi and installed the correct driver during the install process.

Thanks for the help.

Ted

[arochester]

Re: bcm4312 [Solved]