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joobajooba

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 2

broadcom-wl driver

I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 on which I've recently installed Archlinux. My only previous experience with Linux is a few Debian VMs. My current problem is that I can't get the wireless card. It's a broadcom 4312 802.11b/g card, and should work with the broadcom-wl drivers. I think I've installed it correctly, but being a newbie as I am, I cannot be sure. I followed the instructions here: http://zeroincrement.wordpress.com/2009 … -linux-os/ as  well as in the Arch Wiki.

Currently, my system recognizes both my ethernet and network controllers as eth0. Wifi-radar is able to detect access points, but can't connect to any of them.

I'm not sure what other information to provide, but  I'll be happy to if I'm told what's relevant.

I'm also not sure if this is an actual bug or if I'm just incompetent. help please.

Square

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 435

Re: broadcom-wl driver

Please refer to this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75772

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joobajooba

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 2

Re: broadcom-wl driver

You are fantastic, and I now have wireless connectivity, but I still have the weird problem where both of my NICs are recognized by Arch as eth0. How do I make it so my wireless card is recognized as wlan0?

Peasantoid

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Registered: 2009-04-26

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Re: broadcom-wl driver

Stick a file containing something like the following in /etc/udev/rules.d/.

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTRS{address}=="00:00:00:00:00:00", NAME="eth0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTRS{address}=="00:00:00:00:00:00", NAME="wlan0"

You need to figure out the MAC addresses for your NICs, then insert them above. This should assign names to the interfaces; it will also prevent them from getting switched around at boot.

See also: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … _Each_Boot

Last edited by Peasantoid (2009-08-16 20:58:09)