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Help with BCM4306 Wireless
I have been hitting my head against a wall trying to get the wireless working with this card. Unfortunately i use a HP laptop which locks to this card, so simply putting another one in is not a very feasible option.
I installed the b43-fwcutter, extracted the firmware, rebooted the machine. I am still unable to connect to anything, and nothing shows up in nm-applet for wireless networks. I am beyond confused.
I am still very much new to this so any help is appreciated.
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Wireless networking in Linux is not exactly smooth sailing, but it has improved. I'm not Debian-savvy, but I am familiar with wireless in general. A couple questions:
1. Are you sure the firmware is in the right directory / getting loaded? (check dmesg,/var/log/messages)
2. what does iwconfig report?
I bow to the Debian Overlords...
yet when i go to network management i only see wired.
this is driving me crazy. ive been at it for 6 hours now.
sorry , i'm not familiar with nm-applet and "network management" tools. maybe try the following, to help diagnose the problem.
can you configure an IP for your device manually? e.g.
then attempt to associate with your SSID? e.g.
also, are you trying to connect to an AP or what? If a router/AP, and it has WEP/WPA encryption enabled, I would turn it off temporarily, until you can connect successfully.
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43