How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

[ZombiekE]

I followed this to get my broadcom 4318 card to work in dapper (and it worked purrrfectly). Now that I've upgraded to edgy, I'm noticing some odd behaviors: sometimes, it works, well... But then out of the blue, it stops...
And reboot as I may, it still doesn't work... Then after a while, everything works fine again... Is someone else noticing this?

P.S: I did try (many times to no avail

sudo rmmod bcm43xx
sudo modprobe bcm43xx

I think we have the same issue with our Broadcom cards.

[Tiede]

Is yours still doing it? Mine is showing improvement: it always connects though every once in a while it drops and I have to fire up wifi-radar to reconnect...

[pastorjay]

Guys, I am putting this in as many threads about the broadcomm as I can. The new nvidia drivers cause some kind of comflict with the broadcom wireless cards. Not sure what happens, but as soon as I unloaded the nvidia drivers, and went with the default drivers the wireless function all of a sudden is working perfectly, and not droppiing out anymore. Just a heads up! And here is hoping that nvidia can fix this real quick, as you cannot use any 3d functions of the card, which means no Beryl and the sorts.

[Sparticuz]

I've got the firmware installed and almost working...I can see all the networks in wifi-radar, but I can't get an IP from any of them.

[eems01]

I'm seeing your problem with Edgy...

"bcm43xx: Controller RESET (TX timeout)"

When it happens my keyboard is frozen - my mouse works - but sometimes the only way to shutdown or reboot is a hard reset.

Menus respond but don't do anything.

I'm trying a different kernel.

Jon

This morning I installed the 7 avahi updates which mentioned fixing a crash. I figured this may solve this problem. Instead, network manager will not connect anymore after entering the key passphrase. The first light goes green and then a wireless connection screen pops up. After entering the correct credentials in and accepting network manager just stops.

Edit: A few reboots later keyring prompted for password and network manager connected successfully. Lets see if things eventually crash again?

[PartisanEntity]

Hi, I have followed this tutorial but no luck, although the network manager shows up at start up, the only option I have is to enable networking (it does not say wireless networking).

My card is an Asus card with a bcm4306 chip.

[dread0]

I have exactly the configuration mentioned in the HOW TO. I followed the steps exactly but when rebooting the the boot hangs and only recovers when I delete the extracted firmware from the kernel. nothing seems to work with broadcom and wireless and linux.

[hoegaandit]

Thanks for the help, it took me a couple of days to get this working. I have a Broadcom 4306 and it works most of the time, but sometimes it just drops the connection. I try doing

modprobe bcm43xx

but that only works sometimes. A reboot seems to fix it most of the time.
Anyone know how to fix this?

[greensmoke]

do the modrobe bcm43xx command and then reboot. It should work after that. Recheck your essid and wep also. Reset your internet connection (router/modem) too as that seems to have helped a few times. It's just a bit tricky.

[Novek]

Thanks very much for this howto... tried many ndis howto's and didn'y have high ekspects for this nativ driver thing... but now i'm connected