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einfarben

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Registered: 2011-09-22

Posts: 6

[Solved/] BCM4312 Problems

So, my laptop has an idiotic broadcom card (the BCM4312 hardware revision 1).

I spent hours messing with it to get it to accept the firmware and to get the driver fully installed.

Now it returns no errors when I attempt to set it up, but the scan always reports "No results."

Any suggestions on how I can finally get this card fully functional? Or, if not, a good replacement wireless card which would be supported out of the box?

Thanks.

Last edited by einfarben (2011-09-29 17:58:11)

Square

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 435

Re: [Solved/] BCM4312 Problems

I use broadcom-wl from the AUR with my bcm4312 card [Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)].

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einfarben

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Registered: 2011-09-22

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved/] BCM4312 Problems

How would I go about building the wl driver without internet access?

Square

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 435

Re: [Solved/] BCM4312 Problems

Download the tarball and the sources on another system, transfer them the old fashioned way, and build.

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einfarben

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Registered: 2011-09-22

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved/] BCM4312 Problems

*facepalm* I can't believe I didn't think of that.

Anyhow...
I went through and blacklisted b43 and ssb and set up the wl module, and it worked like a charm.
I  even got it up and running on a WPA encrypted network.

Thanks very much.