Broadcom STA Wireless drivers not working on Acer aspire 5750G, Ubuntu 12.04

[hansson_14]

Thanks, this solved it for me as well.
Laptop: Samsung 305-U1A
My pci.id is [14e4:4727] and it works.

[chili555]

Thanks, this solved it for me as well.
Laptop: Samsung 305-U1A
My pci.id is [14e4:4727] and it works.

Which of the several solutions worked for you? Please show us:

lsmod | grep -e b43 -e wl -e brcm

Thanks.

[tarsofagundes]

OK!!! thanks!!! in my Dell inspiron 1428 works fine!

[Possum63]

Please hook up the ethernet and do:

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
sudo modprobe -r b43
sudo modprobe b43

Detach the ethernet and tell us if it's working.

Wow. After a day and a half of internet research and forum reading, this fixed my issue. Thank you so much.

Edit: Ok, it does fix the issue. But it doesn't persist through reboot. Had to do the second two commands again after rebooting.

I'm a complete Linux/Ubuntu noob. So I appreciate your patience. How do I make this persistent through reboot?

[newbiedev]

Hi I'm new to ubunto. I'm having the same problem trying to install the WiFi drivers.
My information is 0b:00.0 network controller [0280]: broadcom corporation bcm4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01]

My laptop is a Dell e1505 and I have no other form of internet other than the WiFi. So no Ethernet. I'm running ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[bkratz]

Hi I'm new to ubunto. I'm having the same problem trying to install the WiFi drivers.
My information is 0b:00.0 network controller [0280]: broadcom corporation bcm4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01]

My laptop is a Dell e1505 and I have no other form of internet other than the WiFi. So no Ethernet. I'm running ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

This should take care of you

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...9&postcount=12


Ignore the above, just noticed that you are using 10.04 not 12.04!

[chili555]

Hi I'm new to ubunto. I'm having the same problem trying to install the WiFi drivers.
My information is 0b:00.0 network controller [0280]: broadcom corporation bcm4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01]

My laptop is a Dell e1505 and I have no other form of internet other than the WiFi. So no Ethernet. I'm running ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Please download the file I've attached and transfer it on a USB drive or similar. Drag and drop it to the desktop of the Dell. Right-click it and select Extract Here. Now open a terminal and do:

sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/b43
sudo cp Desktop/b43/*  /lib/firmware/b43
sudo modprobe -r b43
sudo modprobe b43

Is it working now?

[newbiedev]

Please download the file I've attached and transfer it on a USB drive or similar. Drag and drop it to the desktop of the Dell. Right-click it and select Extract Here. Now open a terminal and do:

sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/b43
sudo cp Desktop/b43/*  /lib/firmware/b43
sudo modprobe -r b43
sudo modprobe b43

Is it working now?

im to do this in with linux loaded right?
also can i do this on a later version (12.04) of linux or it has to be (10.04)
update
sorry ignore the last question, i read your reply above. this is for 10.04

[chili555]

also can i do this on a later version (12.04) of linux or it has to be (10.04)
update
sorry ignore the last question, i read your reply above. this is for 10.04

The firmware will be required in both.

[newbiedev]

The firmware will be required in both.

ok im on 10.04 and i downloaded the zip. i just need to know if i should be doing this on the ubuntu os or windows os. im thinking the ubuntu. ill reply in a bit with the results.


again, thanks for the time to reply and help.