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haydenvr

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Registered: 2014-03-18

Posts: 2

Struggling to Install network interface for wireless Broadcom BCM43228

Hi All,

I just spent the last hour trying to get my wireless card working but am having no luck.

I have installed the broadcom-wl driver and have loaded that into the kernel.

After I did that I can now see a new device when I run the command "ip link"

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp5s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 28:d2:44:25:0e:9f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp4s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 24:fd:52:ce:d2:64 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I am assuming that 3. wlp4s0 is my wireless card, and I enabled it by running "ip link set wlp4s0 up".

Unfortunately I get lost as to what to do from here to connecting to wireless network.

Here is a link to my dmesg: http://pastebin.com/Wz0zCjar
and then also lspci detailing the adapter http://pastebin.com/TinZpcXU

Thanks,

Hayden.

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: Struggling to Install network interface for wireless Broadcom BCM43228

Give this article a read. It'll explain the various (manual and automatic) methods for setting up your wireless connectivity.

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