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    Broadcom BCM43228

    So, I am sitting on a brand-new installation of 12.10 64bit, alongside windows 7 on a brand-new computer. Right after installation, the wireless worked, however, after installing the 97 updates that were needed and rebooting, there is no wifi to be had (ethernet works fine though, that's how I'm posting this). I have looked in software sources, and it claims that the proprietary driver is being employed.

    Running lshw -C network:

    Code:
    lshw -C network
    WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
      *-network               
           description: Ethernet interface
           product: NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
           vendor: Broadcom Corporation
           physical id: 0
           bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
           logical name: eth0
           version: 10
           serial: b8:88:e3:09:5b:5f
           size: 1Gbit/s
           capacity: 1Gbit/s
           width: 64 bits
           clock: 33MHz
           capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
           configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.123 duplex=full firmware=sb ip=192.168.0.183 latency=0 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
           resources: irq:16 memory:b3430000-b343ffff memory:b3440000-b344ffff memory:b3450000-b34507ff
      *-network UNCLAIMED
           description: Network controller
           product: BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n
           vendor: Broadcom Corporation
           physical id: 0
           bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
           version: 00
           width: 64 bits
           clock: 33MHz
           capabilities: bus_master cap_list
           configuration: latency=0
           resources: memory:b3500000-b3503fff
    WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
    From another thread (here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1816292), I saw that the below information might be useful?

    Code:
    lspci -nn | grep 0280 
    03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4359]
    Of course I also tried the fix from that thread, but that gave me nothing - at the end I just got the message that "this card has not actually been tested, please install the driver manually", or something along those lines.

    Any suggestions?

    EDIT: I apologise for the uninformative title, don't know what happened there.

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    Re: Broadcom BCM43228

    Quote Originally Posted by DuckZoro View Post
    I apologise for the uninformative title, don't know what happened there.
    Changed that for you.
    Bringing old hardware back to life. About problems due to upgrading.
    Please visit Quick Links -> Unanswered Posts.
    Don't use this space for a list of your hardware. It only creates false hits in the search engines.

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    Re: Broadcom BCM43228

    thanks

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    Re: Broadcom BCM43228

    Hi ,
    open a terminal and try this (you need an active Internet connection , eg: through Ethernet cable)
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
    sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
    Then unplug Ethernet cable and reboot.

    Working ?

    Thanks

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    Re: Broadcom BCM43228

    actually, I didn't even have to reboot (did it anyway though).

    thanks

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    Re: Broadcom BCM43228

    Quote Originally Posted by NikTh View Post
    Hi ,
    open a terminal and try this (you need an active Internet connection , eg: through Ethernet cable)
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
    sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
    Then unplug Ethernet cable and reboot.

    Working ?

    Thanks
    Thanks, it works for me too. Сould you explain how you found the solution?

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    Re: Broadcom BCM43228

    Solved mine too. Thanks, Nikky.

    Oops!
    The problem came back again after stopping wireless connection and using wired connection for printing some paper works.

    However, I followed http://pkgs.org/ubuntu-12.04/ubuntu-....deb/download/
    and felt a bit better. Not sure if the problem coming back.
    Last edited by wijit; February 26th, 2013 at 12:42 PM. Reason: The problem was not really solved

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    Re: Broadcom BCM43228

    The solution provided for NikTh worked for me too, but also happened the same situation that wijit reported. I tried the installation of the broadcom-sta-common package. Then I had no problem.

    Thanks!

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