- #Broadcom wireless adapter driver for dell install#
- #Broadcom wireless adapter driver for dell software#
Blacklist the brcm80211 module, to prevent it conflicting for support of BCM4313, BCM43224 and BCM43225 devices:Įcho blacklist brcm80211 > /etc/modprobe.d/nfĦ.
#Broadcom wireless adapter driver for dell install#
The "a-i" stands for "auto-install," meaning "download the module source, compile it for the current kernel and install it".ĥ. Build and install a broadcom-sta-modules-* package for your system, using Module-Assistant: Install the module-assistant and wireless-tools packages:Īpt-get install module-assistant wireless-toolsĤ. The key combination to paste into the terminal isģ. Also, to avoid confusion between a one (1) and lowercase L (l) commands can be copied from the tutorial and pasted into the terminal. The terminal prompt will change from something like ~ $ to computer-name username # Note: the change from $ to #. Open a terminal, type su, press, type your password (there will be no response from the blinking cursor), press. The remainder of the installation process will be performed as the root user in a terminal. Updated to reflect testing repositories instead of Squeeze repositories.Ģ. If the "non-free" repository was not present, add it to to /etc/apt/sources.list Open the file withĪnd add these lines at the end of the file
#Broadcom wireless adapter driver for dell software#
Menu > Administration > Software Sources.ĭebian Testing Officially supported DFSG-compatible Software with Non-free Dependencies Non-DFSG-compatible Software should be present and selected, select it if not currently enabled. The Mint developers of LMDE have enabled the "non-free" repositories by default. Installation method 1 should work for newer wifi cards.ġ. NOTE 2 : () Version 5.100.82.38-1 of Broadcom-STA is now available in the LMDE repositories. You will need to use installation method 3, see below.
Support for the b/g/n revision of BCM 4313 requires use of driver version 5.100.82.38 or newer, which is not currently available in the repositories.
The b/g version of BCM 4313 has been supported since version 5.60.48.36 of the driver, currently available in the Debian testing non-free repositories. NOTE: (3) The following has been observed specifically for the BCM4313 chipset (Device ID 14E4:4727) but may apply to other chipsets which were updated from providing 802.11b/g to 802.11b/g/n support. supports multiple current chips (BCM4313, BCM43224, BCM43225) as well as providing a framework for supporting additional chips in the future The driver, while still a work in progress.
Initial release of a fully-open Linux driver for it's latest generation of 11n chipsets.