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Akaly

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Registered: 2008-05-03

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Can't find out how to install wireless card on Arch(Broadcom 4311)

I've installed Arch now and I've gotten Gnome up and running, and now I'd like to use my wireless network. But I'm not sure how to get the apropriate driver to work. In Ubuntu I used some driver management tool for propetary drivers and installed it from there, but I can't see Arch having any equivalent. Ofcourse I tried to read the FAQ, but it seemed a bit complicated doing it that way compared to how I got the driver to work in Ubuntu, so I supposed it was a simpler way of doing it in Arch too. So can anyone help a noob install a Broadcom 4311 wireless adapter and connect to his wireless network?

oliver

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Registered: 2007-12-12

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Re: Can't find out how to install wireless card on Arch(Broadcom 4311)

i dont have a broadcom, but I followed the 'wireless' wiki article at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless and got everything working with no problems...

I'd say installed wireless_tools (pacman -S wireless_tools) and then follow the wiki section on your card http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless#BCM43XX

Post back if you run into trouble

Another broadcom user may have some extra advice but I'm sure the base will be the same as that article

Akaly

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Registered: 2008-05-03

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Re: Can't find out how to install wireless card on Arch(Broadcom 4311)

Yeah, but I think I'll have som trobule getting the driver itself ... But in Ubuntu it got it from some repository ...

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Can't find out how to install wireless card on Arch(Broadcom 4311)

use b43.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless#b43
or
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

after putting firmware in the right place:

modprobe b43
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan

i'm using it and it's working very well along with gnome-network-manager

Last edited by wonder (2008-05-04 19:46:02)

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