Showing posts with label Broadcom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Broadcom. Show all posts

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Getting Broadcom wireless drivers working in Ubuntu 11.04

Installing the default Broadcom driver didn't work. (System > Administration > Additional Drivers)

Solution found here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/38327/broadcom-bcm4311-wireless-not-working
  • Open Synaptic Package Manager and uninstall bcm-kernel-source
  • Install b43-fwcutter
  • Then install firmware-b43-installer (this one didn't show up for me until b43-fwcutter had been installed)
In Terminal do:
cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | egrep '8180|acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|witch|wl'
See if the term blacklist bcm43xx is there. If it is, it needs to be commented out.

Edit the file:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Put a # in front of the line: blacklist bcm43xx:
# blacklist bcm43xx
  • Save the file
  • Reboot