Broadcom wireless on Debian Testing

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, JoeHill wrote:

> I've got a notebook here with built in Broadcom wireless, and before
> I mess this up too much I though I would ask for some tips in
> getting this working.
>
> I did lspci and got the model like so:
>
> Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
>
> I found this article:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx
>
> which seemed to indicate that this was going to be a pretty trivial
> process. Installing the b43-fwcutter and wireless-tools went off
> without error and the firmware was extracted, but so far I've got no
> wireless.
>
> I followed the suggested troubleshooting steps, excluding manual
> installation of the firmware, no answers.

  i just followed the same page for a BCM4318 wireless chip on a
laptop running debian 5.01 and it worked fine.

rday
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