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Jont828

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Registered: 2018-01-12

Posts: 32

Broadcom 4311 Wireless Not Working

Hi, I have a Broadcom 4311 wireless card and I'm having some trouble getting it to work. I've installed b43-firmware and broadcom-wl, but it's stil not showing up. Here is the output of a couple commands.

ip link

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:15:c5:15:15:3a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

lspci -k

[...]
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
	Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
	Kernel modules: ssb

ifconfig

eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.0.0.25  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.0.0.255
        inet6 fe80::f9d3:334:b07f:b20  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:15:c5:15:15:3a  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 47362  bytes 53579387 (51.0 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 2  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 34411  bytes 6619065 (6.3 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device interrupt 17  

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

iwconfig

eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

I'm connected to ethernet right now, so I can still download stuff, but wlan0 still isn't showing. I'm dual booting with Ubuntu, where the wifi is set up, so I can get the correct output from those commands if I need to. I've read the wiki pages, but I'm still confused as to what to do next. Thanks!

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Broadcom 4311 Wireless Not Working

Did you read the broadcom wiki page?

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No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
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