Installing BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI on 7.10 & 8.04 - Broadcom wifi on a HP dv9000

[jlandaw]

BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02)<---? will it work on this? I have a HP tx1000(tx1499)and its had many problems...will this work on (rev 02)? I am afraid to do this due to my bad experance with this(i have had to reinstall 4 times today) because every time i try a method it breaks all future attempts to get the wifi working. so (rev 02)??

Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02)

My HPdv9000 has the same hardware so it will work:

lspci | grep Broadcom

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02)

[ECted]

So I did this and my wireless connection in still not showing up when I go to System --> Administration --> Network. It still only shows my wired connection and point to point connection. Is there something Im missing?

--ted

[jlandaw]

First are you sure you did everything, next what is the output for;

lspci | grep Broadcom

[VerballyCopulating]

How would it be possible to do this WITHOUT an Internet connection? Unfortunately for me, WiFi is the only possibility at the moment. (I have a working connection in Vista and can import files to my Linux partition)

All these posts seem to me like "Here's how you get your Internet working, but one caveat, you need a working Internet connection first!"

[Alvarin]

I do have wired conneciton too , and if anyone can help me , my output for posed question is -

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02)

[jlandaw]

Ok Alvarin,

I'm trying to think of why this is not working for you.

Do you get any errors when you are doing any of the steps?

I'll try to help you, but from what i know, if you do everything in order, it will work...

[BlueFeast]

when i did this, it made my menu when clicking on the two black monitors to

"- Wired Network
_______________Wireless Networks___________
Connect to Other wireless Network...
Create New wireless Network...
-------------------------------------------
Connect to 802.1X Protected Wired Network....
Manual Configuration"

and tells me i can use wireless but the light is still orange, maybe i dont know how to search for networks?

the output is "03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02)" when i put in

lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation

[jlandaw]

How would it be possible to do this WITHOUT an Internet connection? Unfortunately for me, WiFi is the only possibility at the moment. (I have a working connection in Vista and can import files to my Linux partition)

All these posts seem to me like "Here's how you get your Internet working, but one caveat, you need a working Internet connection first!"

I am not sure, but I am working on finding out for you.

I will tell you either way soon.

[Alvarin]

These thing are so finicky it could be anything... I was jsut talking to someone and they forgot to put their wifi switch in the on position, so thats where i would start.

If you have a wired connection, then use it to do all the steps...

I have redone it twice , but now it WORKS !!!
There was no difference between my last attempt and the two attempts before it , but whatever .

Thank you so much !!

[daveerickson]

jlandaw, you are the man! Thank you for compiling this information together in one easy to use place. I used this to get the wireless working on my sisters dv2000, specifically a dv2418nr, on hardy. I could not be more pleased.