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Debian - enable broadcom wireless controller

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Ok, this is driving me crazy. I'm setting up an old Dell Precision M60 notebook, and I can't manage to enable support for its wireless device on debian squeeze. What I tried: lspci | grep -i wireless 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) nice. I found this page on debianwiki: bcm43xx . First of all, let's check if the device is really supported. lspci -vnn -d 14e4: 02:03.0 Network controller : Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card [1028:0001] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 Memory at fafec000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge so it's [14e4:4320] (rev 02). And yes, it's supported . Back to the debianwiki page " For 802.11b-only devices (BCM4301) or **802.11b/g devices with the BCM4306 revision 2 chipset, install firmware-b43legacy-installer**" let's try: sudo aptitude install firmware-b43legacy-installer .. firmware-b43legacy-installer E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up firmware-b43legacy-installer (4.178.10.4-4) ... Not supported card here (PCI id 14e4:165 14e4:4320)! Use b43 firmware. This is just for the b43legacy driver. Aborting. dpkg: error processing firmware-b43legacy-installer (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: firmware-b43legacy-installer Setting up firmware-b43legacy-installer (4.178.10.4-4) ... Not supported card here (PCI id 14e4:165 14e4:4320)! Use b43 firmware. This is just for the b43legacy driver. Aborting. dpkg: error processing firmware-b43legacy-installer (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: firmware-b43legacy-installer E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up firmware-b43legacy-installer (4.178.10.4-4) ... Not supported card here (PCI id 14e4:165 14e4:4320)! Use b43 firmware. This is just for the b43legacy driver. Aborting. dpkg: error processing firmware-b43legacy-installer (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: firmware-b43legacy-installer What? Let's try with the firmware-b43-installer aptitude install firmware-b43-installer It works. But: sudo iwconfig wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off sudo ifconfig wlan0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Again? I googled the error and it is related to the firmware, but i Installed it! I already checked in lib/firmware, there's a b43 folder with the .fw files Any idea?
Asked by randomUser (1 rep)
Feb 28, 2013, 01:54 PM
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