I heard that the broadcom wireless was opensourced. Now, I have found an ex-linux user who has a laptop with broadcom wireless so I was wondering if the the drivers are in 10.04.
Is it plug and play or do I need to download the drivers separately?
I heard that the broadcom wireless was opensourced. Now, I have found an ex-linux user who has a laptop with broadcom wireless so I was wondering if the the drivers are in 10.04.
Is it plug and play or do I need to download the drivers separately?
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Last edited by ubunterooster; 1 Minute ago
Broadcom is open-sourcing their drivers, it's true, but not in time for the 10.04 or 10.10 releases (11.04 at the soonest).
So, for now, please refer to the Broadcom How To:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx
Step 1, "Identifying Your Card/Driver" is the most important step so I recommend posting the results back here for advice before proceeding, if you are unsure.
You'll need to watch for distros running kernel 2.6.37 or newer before they'll be part of the kernel according to articles I had read when the announcement came out.
I've found this simple Broadcom fix works on Dell (not only Mini) with 10.04
http://www.ubuntumini.com/2009/11/br...in-karmic.html
My Dell Inspiron 1545 with Broadcom BCM4312 just requires plugin to ethernet, System>Applications>Hardware and choose the STA driver to install. Then reboot. Works every time.
Let's find out which specific Broadcom card the OP has before we start offering suggestions, people... the answer depends on the particular chipset.
You cannot identify the wireless chipset from within a VM, unfortunately. The VM will only see the "virtual" network device (usually a generic ethernet), not the actual Broadcom card.
A better solution is to boot an Ubuntu Live CD and then follow the command to identify the card (cut and pasted for your convenience):
Without the output of that command, any advice I can give you would be an uneducated guess. Generally speaking, there are (at least) 4 ways to "get Broadcom working in Ubuntu": wl (also known as 'sta'), b43, b43legacy, ndiswrapper. Which one to choose depends on the chipset you have.Code:lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4
Last edited by snowpine; October 18th, 2010 at 05:23 PM.
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