Ubuntu 11.10 getting wireless BCM4311 working

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Neil Smith

I have an HP laptop model nx6325 with a Broadcom BCM4311 wireless card. After installing Ubuntu 11.10, I find that my wireless doesn’t work. The reason, Ubuntu detects the wireless but then loads the incorrect driver for this card.

I use the lspci command to display the details about my hardware. It will display all of your PCI connected hardware. I edited the output to show only the relevant information. The important information here for matching your hardware with mine is this indentifier [14e4:4312].

$ sudo lspci -v

30:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
        Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
        Kernel modules: ssb

$ sudo lspci -nn
30:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)

The Solution

I am going to install the correct driver for this wireless card. Then I will remove the “incorrect” driver (bcmwl) which Ubuntu installed by default.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
$ sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
$ sudo reboot

Hopefully you found this useful.

If you have this same type of wireless chip in your laptop, these instructions might also work for you.

325 thoughts on “Ubuntu 11.10 getting wireless BCM4311 working”

Daniel Berman (@DanielCBerman) on October 15, 2011 at 11:33 am said:

This also works on devices listing [14e4:4311] Dell E1405

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- Juan Lugo on June 23, 2012 at 5:11 am said:
  
  also works on Dell inspiron 640 (Dell 1390 mini wireless card BCM4311)
  Thanks, you are a genius.
  
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  - Anand on November 17, 2012 at 3:19 pm said:
    
    A Big thank you for sharing. It worked like a charm.
milton on October 16, 2011 at 2:27 am said:

thanks it worked

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alessandro on October 16, 2011 at 9:02 am said:

Worked for me too!
I have a HP Compaq nc4400, my hardware identifier was [14e4:4311].
Thank you very much!

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berath on October 16, 2011 at 10:23 am said:

Thanks for this short and powerful hint !

sudo apt-get install firmware-bc43-installer include a typo
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer seems to be ok

This was the only issue I found

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- nfolamp on October 16, 2011 at 3:41 pm said:
  
  Thanks for the correction.
  
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anon on October 16, 2011 at 1:58 pm said:

how do you get the sudo apt-get install firmware-bc43-installer
if you don’t have internet connection?

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- nfolamp on October 16, 2011 at 4:19 pm said:
  
  Use a wired ethernet connection to the internet. These instructions are for getting wireless working. It is assumed you have a wired connection already. If you don’t have that, then ask a friend to download the packages to flash. Then install the packages from flash. If you are downloading the packages to flash, you will need two packages: “firmware-b43-installer” and “b43-fwcutter”. The packages can be downloaded from launchpad.net. Mount the flash drive, open a cmdline, and use “dpkg -i package_file …” to install the packages from the cmdline.
  
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  - Joao on April 1, 2012 at 1:37 am said:
    
    its solved.
    i repeated the set of commands lines again and it worked
nfolamp on October 16, 2011 at 3:48 pm said:

My original post had a typo. It should have been “apt-get install firmware-b43-installer”. Sorry for the confusion.

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Curnis Upkins, III on October 17, 2011 at 1:02 am said:

Worked perfectly for me. Thanks!

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Soma on October 17, 2011 at 2:07 pm said:

Thank you for the help, worked like a charm on my Acer TravelMate 5520.

Soma

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Juan Paulo Martínez on October 17, 2011 at 3:27 pm said:

This works very good for me. I have an Acer Aspire 3680. God bless you.

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Peter Shuttleworth on October 18, 2011 at 5:40 am said:

Worked for me on my Compaq Presario C500. The wireless adapter hadn’t worked since Ubuntu 11.04 and even with hours of searching, faffing and fiddling I could never get it to work.

Works a treat now. Thanks very much!

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Dean Coffey on October 18, 2011 at 1:29 pm said:

Thanks! This worked perfectly for me on an Acer laptop with the BCM4311–quick and easy fix. 🙂

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pressure on October 20, 2011 at 2:31 pm said:

thanks man this did the trick for my hp pavilion dv8000 laptop
i was going nut on it for a little bit til i found your page
thanks

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LEx on October 21, 2011 at 4:35 am said:

It worked for my Dell Inspiron 1501. Only I’ve also pressed Fn+F2.

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Robin Catling on October 22, 2011 at 9:04 am said:

I struggled to get the firmware installed, then stepped back with the brainwave: run the Restricted Drivers install first!

This pulled up the appropriate Broadcom drivers without having to manually tease out firmware. All working again inside 2 minutes.

Note to self – go for the simple, out-of-the-box solutions first, before you go for hard labour.

Why the installer missed the wireless anyway I don’t get – it works using the Live CD!?!? RC

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Norwegian on October 23, 2011 at 3:30 am said:

Fantastic!

This reduced boot time on my Dell XPS m1530 with 30 seconds!

Now I’m connectet when I’m at the desktop, befor this I had to wait 30 seconds for connection to the wireless. I never had a problem with speed after it was connectetd.

By dell has the Broadcom BCM4321

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Gabriel Villa on October 24, 2011 at 2:19 am said:

Thankss!!!!! i have A LOT of time trying to find a solution to this problem!! thanks u man!!! THANKS A LOT!!

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dd on October 24, 2011 at 3:02 pm said:

It works thank you.

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FoteeeMeter on October 25, 2011 at 2:44 am said:

worked great on a Dell Inspiron E1505 with the BCM4311

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Ginés on October 25, 2011 at 10:25 am said:

This also work on Dell Inspiron 1501.

Thanks!

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- GoManGO on November 5, 2011 at 7:17 pm said:
  
  Same Here. This was a great find. THANKS!
  
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Mike on October 25, 2011 at 3:41 pm said:

Thanks for the short precise solution. It worked perfectly.

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Mike on October 25, 2011 at 3:43 pm said:

Good solutions. Short and precise and works for me. Compaq presario V6254ea.

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tastewar on October 28, 2011 at 1:01 pm said:

Thanks! This worked a treat on my nx6325. I was directed here via http://askubuntu.com/questions/68557/how-do-i-get-a-broadcom-bcm-4311-working

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Neil on October 28, 2011 at 2:53 pm said:

Thank you. Your fix worked on my Dell Inspiron 1501 machine. Ubuntu has taken a step back here. The restricted drivers app used to work flawlessly but now installs the wrong driver by default. Your post saved me a lot of digging!

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Thewogg on October 28, 2011 at 10:39 pm said:

You Sir, are a GOD! Thanks a bunch!

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warner on October 29, 2011 at 9:28 am said:

Thanks a lot , your hint is work !!!!

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m on October 29, 2011 at 2:48 pm said:

worked for me! thx

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Mariano on October 29, 2011 at 5:13 pm said:

You are a gentleman and a scholar sir. Thank you!

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marco on October 29, 2011 at 6:14 pm said:

Grazie 1000. Ho funzionata immediatamente.

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Cabner on October 29, 2011 at 6:35 pm said:

MUCHAS MUCHAS MUCHAS MUCHAS GRACIAS!!!!! In English that’s thank you very very very much. It worked great. I tried many different things. This one is by far the simplest and best of them all.

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Anonymous on October 31, 2011 at 12:30 am said:

This also works on device listing [14e4:4318] (rev 02). Thank you very very much!

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Cassio on November 2, 2011 at 10:09 am said:

It worked perfectly on Dell Inspiron 1525, which uses bcm4311.
Thanks a lot!

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- Dadikr on November 21, 2012 at 4:49 am said:
  
  Worked for me to. Problem fixed after three hours of frustration. Thanks a million.
  
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Joe on November 2, 2011 at 11:37 pm said:

Awesome, thanks man. worked great after trying many other options that didn’t work. Dell latitude D620

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Manny on November 6, 2011 at 11:06 am said:

Unfortunately this solution did not work for me. (Ubuntu 11.10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Presario V6133CL
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)

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Guest on November 6, 2011 at 12:38 pm said:

Works perfectly on a Dell Inspiron 1501. Thank you.

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Aaron on November 6, 2011 at 5:55 pm said:

Thanks, this worked awesome for my Deall Inspiron E1505!

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Julián on November 7, 2011 at 1:10 am said:

Couldn’t be easier. Thanks a lot for sharing with us.

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R.Garcia on November 10, 2011 at 3:59 pm said:

Dear Neil Smith ,
I´d to inform that your tutorial worked very well in my laptop HP model 6230 with Wireless card series BCM4311.
Thanks a lot for your help…
Strong hug from Brazil.
Best Regards, GARCIA ( garciabh@ig.com.br )

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Patrick Glendinning on November 10, 2011 at 10:22 pm said:

As a complete Ubuntu noob … thank you so very much!

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milton on November 11, 2011 at 12:57 am said:

milton
thanks again its a great fix

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Alberto on November 11, 2011 at 6:11 pm said:

Wow… can’t believe it… it works 😉
My Broadcom is a [14e4:4311] on Asus Z53H. Before hitting on your post I tried many more methods, as complex as unsuccessful. When I saw your simple recipe I thought, can’t be THAT simple… lol.
For others who might read this: since I messed up broadcom and wireless drivers in my previous attempts, I tried to set for a fresh start from Synaptic: looked for bcm and marked for complete removal everything that had to do with bcm. After that, I reinstalled firmware-b43-installer and rebooted. Network Manager now lists all the available connections — so, many, many thanks, Neil!

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Casey on November 13, 2011 at 10:22 am said:

Thank you so much! Worked on MSI Wind U100 with Broadcom 4311.

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dawson303 on November 13, 2011 at 7:50 pm said:

Thank-you! Worked on my HP G5000!

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zdenyx on November 16, 2011 at 5:51 pm said:

Thank you for this great help. It works on Dell Latitude D420 – BCM4311
(Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01))

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c3k on November 16, 2011 at 6:37 pm said:

s u p e r

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Trixor on November 18, 2011 at 1:08 am said:

Thanks, Worked on Dell Latitude D620 – BCM4311

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KSSS on November 18, 2011 at 2:12 pm said:

Thank you very much!!!
without you, I won’t be able to go to bed…
In the ubuntu community didn’t tell me to remove bcmwl-kernel-source.

Worked on lenovo 3000 v100 – BCM4311

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Steve Wei on November 21, 2011 at 2:43 am said:

I’ve been struggling for this wireless-not-working problem for days!
Until I found your page

It works fine now

Mine is a Compaq Presario C300

Thank you very much!

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Grant on November 21, 2011 at 11:05 pm said:

Thank You!

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gmcauley on November 22, 2011 at 12:49 am said:

Thank you! Worked for me (HP dv2312us and 4311) too!

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Jeffry on November 22, 2011 at 1:19 am said:

Thanks for the fix, love the straight to the point approach. Fixed me right up, on HP dv6324us

Thanks a million

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Björn on November 22, 2011 at 3:31 pm said:

Thanx!!!!
Been struggeling with this….

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Oliver on November 22, 2011 at 4:02 pm said:

Thanks for the solution. Nice work! (HP Pavalion dv6000)

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Liang Qi on November 23, 2011 at 8:17 am said:

Thanks a lot, it works fine on my old macbook pro.

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Sunil Thakur on November 24, 2011 at 12:17 am said:

I am using Dell INSPIRON \ 1501 LAPTOP.

I was very sad nothing happened in my two trial.

But after few days i again tried the above mentioned pattern:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
$ sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
$ sudo reboot

And it worked without any problem.

As I am new to Ubuntu and it was easy step to follow.

Thanks a lot..

I am now thrilled to have wifi working on my Ubuntu 11.10

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Jeffry on November 24, 2011 at 12:56 am said:

Thanks again, just loaded up Linux Mint 12, this fix worked for me there also. Thanks HP Pavalion dv6324us (HP Pavalion dv6000)

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Pravin on November 24, 2011 at 9:29 am said:

Thanks it was very helpful..

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zachfewtrell on November 26, 2011 at 10:14 am said:

worked great on my dell latitude d630 running ubuntu 11.10 64 bit thanks!

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TankerJedi on November 27, 2011 at 11:43 am said:

I have an Inspiron 1545 (BCM4312). My wifi was laggy so i tried to this method. I hope this will help. I had to use the next:

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer

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nicxs on November 28, 2011 at 4:47 pm said:

Hi, this just moved to Ubuntu 11.10 myself from XP. I have an Inspiron 6000 from Dell. This worked for me as well. Thanks a lot!

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Tediffer on December 1, 2011 at 4:21 pm said:

YESSSSSSS!!!!!!

IT WORKS ! ! !

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Dargam on December 3, 2011 at 7:19 pm said:

This is by far the best solution for the BCM4311 on ubuntu 11.10. Thank you very much. 🙂

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Sabin on December 4, 2011 at 4:55 am said:

Awesome!! There are so many posts in the web reg this. But never knew it was so straightforward and simple to get it done. Thanks a ton.

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Kashif on December 4, 2011 at 3:05 pm said:

Thanks a lot ,
worked for Dell D630

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Sam on December 5, 2011 at 10:43 pm said:

Thanks this worked on my latitude D630

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jason on December 7, 2011 at 1:06 pm said:

Thank you Neil, worked perfectly on my Dell Inspiron 9200 with a 4306 chipset! So gratifying to finally see that “WIFI” light!

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Hydro on December 8, 2011 at 2:44 am said:

A+ Works like a charm on my Acer 9410z

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akismet-7b14579a28bb371c125f04d879c6bdfb on December 13, 2011 at 11:49 pm said:

Another THANKS!

Worked on my Compaq nx6110 (with BCM4318).

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Ray on December 14, 2011 at 9:50 am said:

Great job! It worked for BCM4311, Ubuntu 11.10.

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Vijay Subramanian on December 17, 2011 at 4:33 pm said:

Thanks a lot Sir.Crisp Solution.Gave life to my 5 year old Presario c500.Thanks again.

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Jamie on December 19, 2011 at 12:47 pm said:

OMG it works. I cant tell you how happy one little blue has made me.

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Daniel on December 21, 2011 at 5:02 pm said:

Thank You!!!

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Charles Dow on December 22, 2011 at 12:00 am said:

Worked like a charm, helped that I have an Nx6325 also!

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Greg on December 23, 2011 at 12:35 pm said:

THANK YOU!!!! YOU JUST MADE SOMEONE”S CHRISTMAS MUCH BETTER.

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- Gary on December 23, 2011 at 11:57 pm said:
  
  HAH, same for me Greg, my daughter is getting the C500, vista runs like molasses on it, and without wireless it was worthless. Big win here, thanks Neil, saves me some $$$ on presents this year.
  
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Richard on December 27, 2011 at 4:51 pm said:

Nice simple instructions that worked a treat on a HP DV9205 laptop. Thanks

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chris on December 28, 2011 at 2:04 pm said:

I have been trying for months to get this to work. I never knew my wired ethernet worked on my laptop (Windows always showed it as not working) but with Ubuntu it was recognized immediately. I plugged in and followed your steps, and within 5 minutes I was connected. Thank you SO MUCH!!!

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André Serafini on December 29, 2011 at 8:22 am said:

Thanks,
it works for my Dell Inspiron 1525 and my broadcom bcm4311.
São Borja – Rio Grande do Sul – BRAZIL

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redlense on December 29, 2011 at 9:03 pm said:

Wow – awesome. Worked on my Dell Latitude D620. Thx!

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Jerry on December 30, 2011 at 3:57 am said:

Great!!! it works also for my Acer Aspire 9300 with a BCM4311 Thanks.
Wireless without cable is better 😉

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roberto pacheco on December 30, 2011 at 1:21 pm said:

Funciono perfecto, gracias amigo… saludos desde venezuela

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Lex van Dieren on December 30, 2011 at 4:28 pm said:

Thanks a lot, it worked on my Dell Latitude 630.

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FlanMaster on January 2, 2012 at 10:22 am said:

Compaq Presario V3000 (bu ids uf ma v3000) same network chip. Worked perfectly.

Thank you

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new555 on January 3, 2012 at 7:41 pm said:

You my friend.. you..you.. thanks!! Alessandro, Italy

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cd salas on January 4, 2012 at 8:52 am said:

This resolved my problem too. I replaced Windows Vista with UBUNTU 11.10 and my wireless stopped working (light doesn’t even turn blue when switch is flipped). I have to research how to bring up a terminal (CTRL-ALT-T) and then followed the instructions above and now my wireless is working. UBUNTU rocks!!! Windows Vista sucks 🙂

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aravinda on January 4, 2012 at 9:31 am said:

This was simple and easy. I am a beginner and oh my how much time I wasted on the net. Thanks

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Gurdeep on January 4, 2012 at 10:16 am said:

Many thanks – you have made my day!! this has been plaguing me for a few weeks now. I was using an external wireless modem but then that stopped working also. I’m running Ubuntu v11.10 on a Dell Latitude D430.

Have a great day 🙂 !!

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Jose - USA on January 4, 2012 at 10:55 pm said:

Dude – U DA MAN! Instructions worked magnifico on Lubuntu 11.10 installed on older HP Pavilion zv6000 Notebook Series with BCM4318 integrated WLAN.

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James A VanFleet on January 5, 2012 at 11:55 pm said:

Three perfect commands that got me up and running. Thanks for posting them.

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Daryl on January 7, 2012 at 1:06 pm said:

This also worked on a Acer Extensa 5210. I’d worked out the first part myself but it didn’t work until after removing the old driver. Thanks very much.

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John L on January 8, 2012 at 11:18 am said:

Thanks worked like a charm, you saved me a headache.. 🙂 cheers!

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JLglobal on January 9, 2012 at 11:57 am said:

Thanks Much!!! Clear simple information about setting up the wireless on an old presario for new updated ubuntu versions that worked!

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youyou on January 10, 2012 at 2:54 am said:

thank you you’re he man i was hopeless before i read your post thank you

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Anco van Soelen on January 12, 2012 at 2:31 am said:

Thank you Neil, this is also solving my wireless connection problem on the Acer Aspire 9410z laptop with Lubuntu 11.10.

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John on January 14, 2012 at 10:08 am said:

Another Dell Inspiron 1501 fixed – many thanks!

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carmo on January 14, 2012 at 6:26 pm said:

Finally after looking some posts I just have my dell 1525 + bcm4311 + ubuntu 11.10 working!!! Thanks

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elton on January 16, 2012 at 3:07 pm said:

Thanks a lot for posting these steps. Worked for my Dell Inspiron 640m

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Marduk Rsv (@netors) on January 17, 2012 at 1:39 am said:

Worked like a charm for my Inspiron 1721

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DavidG on January 18, 2012 at 12:31 am said:

You’re a goddamn GENIUS !

I haven’t been able to see the wireless NIC in my Dell Latitude D420 laptop since version 10.something after which they broke the driver. Many Thanks.

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Alfredo on January 20, 2012 at 2:59 am said:

TNX! Works Great!!! Compaq Presario c500

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mahoni on January 24, 2012 at 9:51 am said:

thanks it worked for me. I have been trying to install for 1 hour but i was using the instructions for ubuntu 11.04.

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Andy Sutorius on January 24, 2012 at 10:23 am said:

Successful fix!

Blogged about it on my site: andysutorius.tumblr.com

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abcde on January 25, 2012 at 11:35 pm said:

Fixed my problem with my old acer travelmate 7520

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RW on January 26, 2012 at 4:24 pm said:

Not working at all, my HP zv600 will not work with 11.10, have tried this suggestion and many others. Oh well, the BCM43 chipset works great with SUSE, Redhat and slackwear……….No extra configuration needed.

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Garrett on January 26, 2012 at 9:58 pm said:

Baller. Simply brilliant.

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Garrett on January 26, 2012 at 9:59 pm said:

Also, it worked for my Dell Latitude D531, forgot to include that

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Rodney on January 26, 2012 at 10:41 pm said:

BLESS YOU!!!!! I’ve been trying to get this to work for weeks and your fix finally helped.

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rejnok on January 29, 2012 at 11:40 am said:

TKANKS a lot!!! I red some instruction from ubuntu wiki, but didn’t work, because they wrote that wrong driver… why???? 😀

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Steven on January 29, 2012 at 4:50 pm said:

that’s a neat solution! Thanks

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Bob on January 30, 2012 at 3:25 am said:

Thx very much. This works perfectly, BTW, do you know how to fix the ATI graphics card driver on HP NX6325?
Thx in advanced.

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Justin on January 31, 2012 at 5:35 am said:

THANK YOU! I’ve been messing around for at least half an hour trying to find a solution… everyone was saying to use some pre-written scripts that would’ve installed the driver but none of those worked… I knew there had to be some simple way to do it in terminal. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

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Gustavo Zanatta Bruno on February 1, 2012 at 10:39 pm said:

Thanks, fixed error in Hp dv 6258se

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ALEX on February 3, 2012 at 12:19 pm said:

Iam Alex from Kenya……Wow..it worked

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Matus Frisik on February 3, 2012 at 3:45 pm said:

Thank you! Fixed error on HP 530

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SURESH on February 4, 2012 at 1:16 am said:

WOW
HOURS OF HARD WORK DINT WORK FOR ME TILL I READ THIS
COOL
MANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
GOOD WORK THANKS A LOT
🙂

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Flyer on February 5, 2012 at 4:54 am said:

Saved my day, many thanks.
At first I thought that the package removal was useless but it is indeed mandatory 🙂

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Erik on February 5, 2012 at 4:58 am said:

Worked super at my Acer travelmate 5520 Thanks!

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Tony on February 6, 2012 at 4:43 pm said:

you sir are a phenomenon… thank you so, so, much!!!

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Vincent on February 9, 2012 at 11:37 am said:

This worked for me on a Dell D620, thanks a lot!!

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Murdy on February 10, 2012 at 4:40 am said:

Worked perfectly for me. Thanks! Acer TravelMate 5520

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appforthat (@appforthat2) on February 11, 2012 at 7:15 am said:

perfect Dell inspiron E1505

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Frank Torres on February 11, 2012 at 11:22 pm said:

OMG IT REALLY WORKED IN MY COMPUTER I HAVE A GATEWAY MX6447 AND I AM REALLY, REALLY HAPPY THAT FINALLY SOMEBODY DID THIS. THANKS A MILLION.

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jcarr171 on February 12, 2012 at 12:13 pm said:

It worked for me on a Compaq C500 with Linuxmint 12 kde

$ kdesudo apt-get update
$ kdesudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
$ kdesudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
$ kdesudo reboot

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Lars on February 12, 2012 at 3:52 pm said:

Thanks a lot!!

Worked on Dell D630 with the broadcom BCM4311 wireless and ubuntu 10.10

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Tom on February 13, 2012 at 1:59 am said:

Thanks! It works for Acer Extensa 5220

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FRANK TORRES on February 14, 2012 at 6:46 pm said:

I was wondering if this same commands work if you are running ubuntu 10.10?

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- Neil Smith on February 15, 2012 at 1:59 am said:
  
  Probably yes. I skipped over 10.10. Therefore I can’t say for sure.
  
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habib on February 16, 2012 at 11:14 pm said:

Ur genius I can say .after continues sitting 7hrs infront of my laptop I fixed it by using ur command. Thank you.

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milton on February 18, 2012 at 1:47 am said:

Thank you verry much, iv been working all day on this, why canonical dosent
pull ther head out and give new installers this info right on there distro is beond me.

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Mario on February 18, 2012 at 8:28 pm said:

Thanks!!! It works on HP Compaq 6720s!
🙂

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Steve We on February 18, 2012 at 8:35 pm said:

You’re the best. I tried several other more convoluted fixes and this one worked first time. Of course I did comment out the blacklist bcm43xx in an earlier attempt in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. This may have set the stage for your fix to work. Not sure.

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Manu on February 19, 2012 at 4:37 am said:

Thanx a ton.. finally got my wifi working

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Raghuveer.K on February 19, 2012 at 7:01 am said:

Yes… It works for Broadcom BCM4311, No mater which laptop you have.. Good Job. Thanks Neil Smith

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Mike on February 21, 2012 at 1:50 pm said:

I join the club of the happy campers 🙂
THANKS

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koli14 on February 22, 2012 at 3:28 am said:

Thanks!
Working for hp Compaq nx7400 too…

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Willia on February 22, 2012 at 3:23 pm said:

Thx … worked for me for a Dell Insprion 1300

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Omar on February 23, 2012 at 3:09 am said:

Thank you so much!!!

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Felix on February 24, 2012 at 4:57 am said:

Honey, I want a child from you.
Works perfectly!

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Jouni on February 24, 2012 at 10:15 pm said:

Did not work for me unfortunately, I have a Dell XPS M1530 with BCM4311. After trying windows wrappers, removing the blacklisting (anything you can find if you google this), I found out accidentally that all my problems go away if I do the command “sudo modprobe b43”. This either makes the wireless connection come alive or prompts you to activate the STA third party driver if not done so earlier. Then just adding “b43” to the /etc/modules file forces it to auto connect each time you boot up. I hope this works for someone if they have the same problem I did.

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- nina on April 3, 2012 at 6:36 pm said:
  
  Jouni you are my hero of the day, thanx for the help! 🙂
  
  Greeting from Crete, nina
  
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Paul on February 25, 2012 at 11:35 pm said:

AWESOME thank you worked perfectly

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Kari on February 28, 2012 at 3:53 pm said:

I wish I would have found this HOURS ago! It worked like a charm, thanks!

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Anderson Souza Cruz on February 28, 2012 at 5:47 pm said:

Work . Congratulations. God Bless You !

Acer Aspire 3680

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jason on February 29, 2012 at 1:28 am said:

This little tidbit about ubuntu loading the wrong driver was so helpful. Thanks.

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nacho on March 1, 2012 at 7:53 pm said:

thanks man problem solved on a dell inspiron 1521

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Faiz on March 2, 2012 at 9:14 am said:

Brilliant! Worked perfectly on my Dell Inspiron 640m as well. Thanks 🙂

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Curtis on March 2, 2012 at 8:46 pm said:

you are my hero, this works where 4 other suggestions failed.

Thank you !! live long and prosper !!

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tognux on March 4, 2012 at 3:24 pm said:

Thanks it works great…

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Andy on March 4, 2012 at 6:12 pm said:

Yes this worked for me as well. Dell Inspiron 1720 Ubuntu 11.10

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Santux on March 4, 2012 at 10:37 pm said:

Por fin funcionó… DELL INSPIRON E1505 con Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)… en UBUNTU 11.10 Muchas Gracias!!!

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Chris on March 6, 2012 at 5:28 pm said:

Thanks!
Works with Kubunto 11.10 and D620

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Akshay on March 7, 2012 at 4:58 am said:

Thanks Buddy…………………..Worked for me:D

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coderefinery on March 7, 2012 at 10:18 pm said:

Solved wireless adapter not working with a Dell Latitude D830 running Ubuntu 11.10… thanks a lot!

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KB-ABQ-NM on March 9, 2012 at 12:15 pm said:

THANK YOU! 😀

This process worked flawlessly – Thank you for the step by step directions. Just as a nice addition this process also works for 12.04 Beta 1 – I performed the exact steps and had no issues in 11.10 and now 12,04 Beta 1

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KB-ABQ-NM on March 9, 2012 at 12:19 pm said:

D620 – 64 Bit edition Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 Beta 1 – Moving forward to Ubuntu on all machines 😀 Goodbye Microsnot

T-50 Days to 12.04 LTS release

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corey on March 9, 2012 at 4:47 pm said:

you rock man! i searched and tried a lot of different things and this was the one that worked.

f.y.i everyone i recommend using synaptic to make sure that you don’t have anything installed that conflicts with the drivers you are wanting to install. you don’t want ndiswrapper, ndisgtk, ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 installed, and of course like the instructions say you are removing the bcmwl-kernel-source before the installing of the listed firmware. i am speaking from experience i had the ndiswrapper installed and it was conflicting with the correct drivers.

anyhow awesome job and thank you very much!

Live Long And Prosper!

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Bo Klausen on March 9, 2012 at 8:31 pm said:

Works for me too (HP Pavilion dv9000), but only after also making the changes suggested by Jouni.
Like many others, I have spent HOURS trying to solve this.

THANKS a LOT!

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coderefinery on March 11, 2012 at 4:25 am said:

Reblogged this on Code Refinery.

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calicobeard on March 11, 2012 at 10:41 pm said:

DUDE!!! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!
I am running a Linux Mint LXDE 12 32bit Live CD and just got my wireless working thanks to this post. I am working on a Dell Inspiron 1521 with a BCM4311 chipset.

One more tip, I am trying out a lot of different Linux versions via LiveCD, trying to find one I like that also supports my wireless. I want to mention to anyone that is using a LiveCD. Obviously you can’t restart, but just use the following command after you perform the steps listed above:

sudo modprobe b43

I have no clue what it does (I am a complete Linux n00b), but it made my wireless card start picking up my surrounding networks.

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dr.trevor on March 13, 2012 at 6:14 pm said:

Thanks. It works perfectly on my Dell Vostro 1500

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Sailesh on March 18, 2012 at 3:34 am said:

Thank you!!

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JJ on March 19, 2012 at 3:53 pm said:

THANK YOU! Just did a fresh 11.10 install and was gettign so frustrated trying to figure this out. Thanks a lot!

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luke on March 20, 2012 at 10:34 am said:

Thank you so much. My old hp 530 is now connected to the net. Nice and simple.

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Vincent on March 21, 2012 at 9:42 pm said:

OMG thank you!! i’ve installed 6 flavours of linux now trying to get my inspiron 1501 with broadcom 4311 to connect to wireless. I mean what’s the point in having a laptop if i can’t use wireless? Backtrack worked right from installation but I wanted a none specialized OS to dualboot. You are the first person who was able to fix this issue for me! I think I’ll stick to Ubuntu after this.

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addi on March 24, 2012 at 10:56 am said:

Dankeschön from germany 😉

this works great

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Icepick on March 24, 2012 at 3:04 pm said:

Well done Mr. Smith, and thanks! (Dell Precision M6300 here)

In other postings, this tool helps figure out WTF:
lshw -C network

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John Lion on March 26, 2012 at 8:16 am said:

Thank you! works fine on Ubuntu 11.10 There is so much rubbish on the internet about this problem. This is nice and simple.
It’s things like this that stop great software like Ubuntu giving Windows a run for it’s money (or lack of it 🙂 Non -techies just want something that works and issues like this put them off.
PS – This is still a problem on Ubuntu 12.04 Beta if anyone is about to try it!

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Phrozenbit on March 26, 2012 at 6:48 pm said:

Thanks, fixed my girlfriends Compaq Presario in about 20 seconds with this one. Kudo’s 🙂

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pfondekar on March 28, 2012 at 10:18 am said:

Fantastic post. Got it working for my HP Compaq in no time.
Thanks 🙂

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mig on March 30, 2012 at 5:20 pm said:

Thank you!

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Emil Eklund on March 31, 2012 at 7:02 am said:

Thanks! Worked perfectly on my Compaq Presario V5000

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jonnyapple on April 2, 2012 at 12:19 am said:

Thank you so much! It wasn’t working when I was running off the ISO, but I took the leap of faith and installed, and there were no problems then.

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jonnyapple on April 2, 2012 at 12:21 am said:

I don’t know if my previous comment posted (made me log in to gravatar). Thanks so much!

It didn’t work for me when running the ISO off of a flash drive, but I took the leap of faith and installed and had no problem (good riddance, XP).

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simon on April 3, 2012 at 12:22 pm said:

Thank you sooooooo much!!! It worked on my Dell Latitude D430!!
After browsing tons of useless forums and sites I finally found this blog. Nice and easy to use solution.
I am really glad that there are sites like yours that help people! Have a nice time!

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MM on April 4, 2012 at 7:39 pm said:

Worked on my Dell Inspiron 6400

Tried lots of other methods and this was the only one that worked.

Thank you sooooo much!!!

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budski on April 5, 2012 at 10:32 am said:

Thanks so much! worked like a champ dell ins 6400 4311

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xman on April 6, 2012 at 9:48 am said:

fabulous! is sorted my samsung n130 wireless problem. thak you!

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graziano on April 7, 2012 at 12:44 pm said:

thank you from italy
it worked without any problem,on my hp compaq nx7400

THANK YOU!

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andrew on April 14, 2012 at 1:45 pm said:

Thanks soooooo much. This worked on my compaq presario v5000

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Lui on April 14, 2012 at 6:41 pm said:

Thank you very much !!GbY

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Gaurav on April 16, 2012 at 9:37 am said:

Thanks a lot!! it works great on my Inspiron 1525. I have verified this solution on Mint and Ubuntu it works!! in both.

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Brian Gann on April 16, 2012 at 10:56 pm said:

AWESOME! My mother has a Pavilion dv9000 from HP and has recently decided to switch it over to Ubuntu 11.10. I was unable to get the system to update properly because the wireless card was a proprietary card from Broadcom. Using your fix, I was able to completely get her transferred over to Linux and will be returning her laptop to her tomorrow! You are a life saver. THANKS!!!

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Eric Parsons on April 18, 2012 at 12:14 pm said:

It worked for my HP Pavillion dv2000! Thank You!

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Lucas Zani on April 18, 2012 at 11:39 pm said:

I just can believe it was so simple… I tried everything to get mey wireless working. Man, you’re my hero. Thanks a lot!

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sam on April 19, 2012 at 9:59 am said:

thanks @nfolamp, for sharing.
it worked on a hp compac nx6315

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Valerian on April 19, 2012 at 12:38 pm said:

Thank you very much. Worked with Acer Aspire 3003 WLMi 😉

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Luis Manuel Prado Moreno on April 19, 2012 at 8:26 pm said:

I have the same computer model as yours. It worked without any more issues. Thank you for your support, hopefully someday can share knowledge in retribution. So, thanyou very much again.

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chris on April 21, 2012 at 8:45 pm said:

Thank you. Worked for my Broadcom b43 on Ubuntu 12.04. Nothing else worked.

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hjk on April 24, 2012 at 1:22 am said:

Worked also on my old HP-Compaq nx6110 (with BCM4318) from year 2006.
Thanx a lot!
This was my first linux installation 🙂

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Andrew on April 24, 2012 at 10:54 pm said:

Worked on my Gateway mx7118 from 2006ish (BCM4318 wireless). I had tried so many different procedures (I’m guessing most were just outdated) and this one worked so SIMPLY! Thank you!!!

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Keith Ill May on April 26, 2012 at 11:47 am said:

Thanks again seems in order, Dell inspiron 1501, worked as advertised. Same card you have BCM 4311(rev 1) Also a first linux install, ubuntu 11.10.

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sam on April 26, 2012 at 12:05 pm said:

It worked..thanks. Would the same commands work with HP dv6000 laptop? I do not have the laptop with me right now, but once i get my hands on it, i would like to go ahead and make the switch from xp to ubuntu. Thanks again. Cheers!!!!

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alanhorizon on April 27, 2012 at 1:04 am said:

Worked for XPS M1530 with Broadcom BCM4312 on Ubuntu 12.04. Thanks!

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Mark on April 27, 2012 at 3:35 am said:

Brilliant! This worked on my old Dell Latitude D620 running 12.04. Thank you so much!

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JoGo on April 27, 2012 at 9:50 am said:

Solution is also confirmed on Dell Latitide D520 w. Ubuntu 12.04/64 bits. Thank…You..Very…VERY…much!

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Nazmul on April 30, 2012 at 1:06 am said:

Hi,

I have Ubuntu 11.10 and I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad. When I type sudo lspci -v in my terminal, I get the following output:

03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device e020
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at f0600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 88-55-22-fe-ff-4c-e0-00
Kernel driver in use: rtl8192se
Kernel modules: rtl8192se

Based on this result, how can I modify the commands that you gave? Shall I use the same commands?

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Strun on April 30, 2012 at 6:55 am said:

Thank you very very much. This worked for me on Dell Latitude D531 with Ubuntu 12.04/64 bits

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- Neil Smith on May 1, 2012 at 12:51 am said:
  
  These steps are only valid for the broadcom chipset. You’ll have to use a different method for realtek. Check out this link http://michael-peeters.blogspot.com/2011/10/fixing-rtl8191se-wifi-under-ubuntu-1110.html
  
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masinick on April 30, 2012 at 4:49 pm said:

For those who want further information, and for those who use wireless firmware other than Broadcom, refer to http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware. It includes information about both the b43 and b43legacy wireless firmware drivers, but it also includes information for other wireless firmware as well, and it is a definitive source of valuable information, not only for Debian-based systems, but for Ubuntu and its derivatives, which are, of course, Debian-derived, so the information applies, and works perfectly.

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smithseaz on May 1, 2012 at 11:04 pm said:

Perfect fix, been running mint 11 on several computers / laptops and for whatever reason couldn’t get the wireless to install on this particular one. Tried the default drivers, tried to ndiswrap a few drivers. your instructions were exact and to the point. Thank you!!!

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Chris Rainey on May 2, 2012 at 1:46 pm said:

Awesome … very clean and readable fix. Thanx !!

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David on May 3, 2012 at 11:31 pm said:

Worked like a champ, I really appreciate you keeping this info out there!

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Wolfgang on May 4, 2012 at 4:45 pm said:

Thanks a lot! You made my day!!! :))

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Martin on May 6, 2012 at 2:50 pm said:

Genius – works with 12.04 for Dell insperion 1501 [14e4:4311]

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Martin on May 6, 2012 at 3:18 pm said:

After a reboot had a problem with wifi being disabled
so I did

sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
sudo rfkill unblock all

also

disabled wireless hardware switch in the bios setup

then complained about missing firmware

so removed and reinstalled firmware-b43-installer

Not sure if all the above was necessary, but it is working now.

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- kirtimansharma on May 17, 2012 at 8:21 am said:
  
  Similar situation on Dell Latitude D630. After reboot the adapter was installed but disabled. I just anabled the wireless and uninstalled and reinstalled b43 firmware drivers from the Ubuntu software centre.
  
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Ozzy on May 7, 2012 at 5:14 am said:

Thanks! Worked with Compaq 6720s

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Ramesh on May 7, 2012 at 11:33 am said:

I hv the same wi-fi driver problem for my Dell Inspiron mini 1012(Ubantu 11.10).

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Guy on May 7, 2012 at 5:30 pm said:

Thanks a lot!!!! worked for dell Vostro 1500

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vlad on May 8, 2012 at 7:09 pm said:

Thank you a lot, really nice & quick fix for the nx7400 :))

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Pete on May 9, 2012 at 4:54 am said:

Thanks – worked a treat on my C500 with the identity 14e4:4311. Very clear and useful!

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bigian1179 on May 9, 2012 at 11:44 am said:

exellent many thanks my friend

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Forrest on May 9, 2012 at 11:40 pm said:

worked for ubuntu 12.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1501.
Terminal
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo reboot.

Awesomesauce.

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gen on May 10, 2012 at 2:04 am said:

bloody rippa mate!!! (Friggin Awesome!!!) thanks for this article works wonders!

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lawrencemaria on May 13, 2012 at 8:12 am said:

Thanks a tonne! The solution worked great on Acer Aspire 2920Z running Linux Mint 12 -which developed a “wifi disappeared” problem! You saved the cost of buying a new laptop. Thank you!

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Loucie on May 13, 2012 at 8:28 am said:

Thanks a lot! Been trying to get mine to work for days! It worked like a charm! Cheers!

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oana on May 13, 2012 at 1:26 pm said:

Thank you so much for your answer. It worked.

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encarnamm on May 14, 2012 at 1:30 pm said:

Thank you very much!!! It worked!!!

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SSad on May 15, 2012 at 10:03 pm said:

Thanks a lot, worked just in one try.

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Francis. on May 17, 2012 at 4:08 pm said:

Thanks a lot!

Have a HP Presario V3000 (wireless controller is Broadcom BCM4311) inherited from my son. Windows got busted and did not want to pay for the recovery or buy Windows license.

The Ubuntu 12.04 2 installation included the STA driver which does not recognise the firmware. Got it working following your simple 3-step instructions.

Great stuff.

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Jan on May 21, 2012 at 5:26 pm said:

Thanks a lot, this works on 12.04.

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Paddy on May 22, 2012 at 2:23 pm said:

Thank you so much 🙂
I have been trying to find a fix for the wireless on my acer 5520 since Nov 2011, and in one succesfull Google I feel like I have got my laptop back, your a star.
Regards Paddy

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Chris on May 22, 2012 at 7:45 pm said:

Works on Dell XPS m1530 with Mint Maya RC. Many thanks!

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sonia on May 23, 2012 at 11:56 am said:

Works on Acer Extensa 5620Z. Many Thanks!!!

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Not Given on May 24, 2012 at 3:38 pm said:

Thanks! It worked on my Dell D430!

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Lincoln on May 28, 2012 at 1:28 am said:

It is working on my Acer Aspire 9300. My hardware identifier was 14e4:4311 but your instructions worked flawlessly. In fact, I had tried Linux Mint about 8 months ago but gave up because I could not get the wireless to work. I decided to re-install Linux Mint again tonight and give the wireless thing another shot. I am glad I did.

I can’t thank you enough. I am most grateful.

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W8ime1 on May 28, 2012 at 4:19 am said:

You are king,
it is working!

Dell Latitude D630 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Thanks!

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kevin hanning on June 5, 2012 at 7:02 pm said:

ok, i have tried this very thing a multitude of times on a Dell Latitude D-620 and all the other fixes that worked on scores of other forums to the same end. Nothing!
it was when i physically switched off the manual wifi button after performing the steps listed above and then running

sudo apt-get update

a second time that i turned the manual switch back on and my pretty little wifi light just lit up!
Weeks of work and this did the trick but only in this order!

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Stéphane on June 5, 2012 at 11:19 pm said:

working fine on ubuntu 12.04 and HP Pavilion dv9000

Thanks

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maxi on June 6, 2012 at 7:53 am said:

un millon de gracias!!! despues de una semana lo consegui gracias a vos…y mucho mas sencillo de los que probe… no hay gracias que alcance…
gracias
gracias
gracias
usa traductor para poder leer lo que te dije.

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Nonny on June 7, 2012 at 5:25 am said:

u d man, thanks man

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Pejo on June 12, 2012 at 3:27 pm said:

F****** awesome. Thanks.

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nmgraywiz on June 17, 2012 at 2:42 pm said:

Greetings… (Sorry, couldn’t find your name…)
Just wanted to send you a thank you for doing a great job in compiling the information to make the driver work, with the least amount of question marks possible. It worked for me.. I have a Dell Inspiron 1721 Laptop with the Broadcomm [14e4:4311] Dell (B43) wireless hardware. Worked perfect, so far.. Thanks for your hard work and hope to see you around again sometime..

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Stephen Carter on June 17, 2012 at 5:27 pm said:

Thank you very much. This is a very, very helpful tutorial.

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Tanuj Parashar on June 27, 2012 at 2:30 pm said:

Thanks a lot

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Fletch on July 5, 2012 at 10:01 pm said:

Thankyou so much! This worked perfectly for me.

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Asier Bautista on July 6, 2012 at 4:22 pm said:

Thank you for this page, for your help. This solution is very simple, and very efective too. My laptop is a DELL Latitude D531.

Thanks again.

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ebay123justdoit on July 7, 2012 at 5:03 pm said:

Reblogged this on Make Her Busy.

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DVerdecia on July 10, 2012 at 1:20 pm said:

Add me to the list of people happily satisfied with this fix! Thank you!

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Laird Klaus on July 10, 2012 at 3:05 pm said:

Hi!
Thank you very much of me, too! I had the same problem with my Linux Mint Debian Edition (Debian Testing, Version 2012-04). And guess what, it works now, thanks to you!

Best wishes of Bavaria, Southern Germany!

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Roji Kuriakose on July 11, 2012 at 1:14 pm said:

Thanks, it worked. My Laptop is Dell Inspiron E1505

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OL on July 17, 2012 at 1:51 pm said:

Grazie per la spiegazione. Funziona perfettamente sul mio HP-Compaq nc6320, con Linux mint Maya.
Ciao.

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Jengis Kojak on July 18, 2012 at 10:20 pm said:

even if i hda the same issue, it didn’t work for me.. is there any other way of getting my wireless back? thanks guys..

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quysweat on July 19, 2012 at 1:14 am said:

Thank you very much! This instruction is straight to the point…. very informative.

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Jeffrey West on July 20, 2012 at 2:00 am said:

Worked perfectly…. thank you!

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MisterIT on July 26, 2012 at 9:02 am said:

This works on HP dv9428ca dv9000 series laptop with a Broadcom BCM4311 rev02 wireless card [14e4:4311]

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diego on August 3, 2012 at 12:20 pm said:

Thaks!!
My WIFI now works on DELL INSPIRON 6400 🙂

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DanSol on August 5, 2012 at 6:12 pm said:

Thanks!
Works fine on HP G3000ea

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Robert on August 11, 2012 at 11:28 pm said:

Works fine on Ubuntu 12.04 as well.

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gio on August 20, 2012 at 3:09 pm said:

thanks

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Aadi on August 26, 2012 at 2:40 pm said:

Thanks mate!

Hours of frustration and research didn’t do what your post did..

Worked like a charm on my Compaq Presario C500.

Thanks again 🙂

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blair0 on September 3, 2012 at 4:23 am said:

Thanks for this! 🙂

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Gaurav on September 8, 2012 at 4:56 pm said:

Thank you so much :)… It worked for compaq presario v5000… :)…

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Jim on September 12, 2012 at 10:36 am said:

NICE! Worked like a charm.

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mishmich on September 13, 2012 at 6:48 am said:

Wow! That was easy. Thanks. Why did they break it? First there was NDIS wrappers, then it used to work with extra drivers, now it doesn’t. What is the point? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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Jim jones on September 13, 2012 at 11:07 pm said:

Excellent! Worked perfect in version 12 as well. I didn’t even have to uninstall the old driver or reboot!

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james on September 17, 2012 at 9:31 am said:

Thanks very much…worked for me with dell latitude d620

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NicK on September 18, 2012 at 10:04 am said:

Thanks a lot! Works fine on Ubuntu 12.04)

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VK on October 7, 2012 at 6:56 am said:

Worked for me on ubuntu 11.10. thanks!

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PAUL on October 14, 2012 at 3:11 pm said:

Hello … this post is awesome !!

I just spend a couple of hours trying to fix the wireless of my Acer Extensa and following the instructions your post fixed it.

Many, many thanks from me !!

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Frank Rothkamm on October 16, 2012 at 11:55 am said:

Perfect solution for 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) and 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

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Jens-Uwe on October 18, 2012 at 4:16 am said:

I am a beginner. Perfect. Thank you.

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loredig on October 18, 2012 at 6:19 pm said:

thaks it works !

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Jeff on October 19, 2012 at 5:04 pm said:

Completely new to linux, have no idea what those terminal instructions actually did, with 1 exception. They most DEFINATELY WORKED ! ! ! ! thanks

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skyusb on October 20, 2012 at 8:35 am said:

Perfect i love linux

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ryanheldt on October 22, 2012 at 12:45 pm said:

+1 Dell Inspiron E1505 under Ubuntu 12.10
Much thanks!!

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ryanheldt on October 22, 2012 at 10:23 pm said:

Also works on the Dell Inspiron E1505 under Xubuntu 12.10
Again, thanks!

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DT on October 25, 2012 at 9:36 pm said:

hp dv2310us with 4311 (14e4:4312)…works perfectly, thank you!!!

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stevie on November 2, 2012 at 3:06 pm said:

on my acer aspire it worked perfectly

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Lars on November 18, 2012 at 6:42 pm said:

On my Compaq nx6110 that have a BCM4318 broadcom wireless card B43 driver work perfectly

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- Lars on November 18, 2012 at 6:45 pm said:
  
  I should say that I run Lubuntu 12.10
  
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Santiago on November 25, 2012 at 7:53 pm said:

Thanks s lot! You are a genius indeed. Our nx6325 has wifi now from ubuntu 12.10.
Best regards from Galicia!

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Alberto Herrera on November 28, 2012 at 10:06 pm said:

It works! Thank you very much!

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Chris on December 6, 2012 at 11:02 am said:

Many thanks. Works perfectly on my HP DV6000 running Peppermint OS ver 3

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Fernando Sancho on December 13, 2012 at 9:00 am said:

Thanks, it worked in my Dell Latitude D531 with Ubuntu 12.04

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Marcelo Gomes (marcelogomesrp) on December 20, 2012 at 8:54 am said:

Thanks it’s worked in Dell Inspiron 1525.

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Nemo on December 27, 2012 at 9:11 am said:

Works on a dell 640m with Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu Studio 12.04, like a charm. Thanks a lot!

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hlbal dieh on January 2, 2013 at 10:26 am said:

thx dude, works perfectly on a hp g5042 notebook!

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Jayalekshmy Nair on January 5, 2013 at 5:08 am said:

worked like a charm .. thanks a lot !!
(dell inspiron 1525 with ubuntu 11.10 )

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Cecilia on January 16, 2013 at 12:06 am said:

Excelent! It had worked perfectly for me. Thanks a lot!

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Ryan on January 27, 2013 at 12:16 pm said:

Worked on Compaq nx6325 – Finally. Much appreciated!

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Ben on January 30, 2013 at 3:32 pm said:

Excelent hint!
Works very well on my HP Pavilion.
Thanks a lot!

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anonymouse dood on February 6, 2013 at 6:18 am said:

Thank you so much!
took me a while to find this.
worked perfectly on my Latitude D520 🙂

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AlexFR on February 10, 2013 at 9:13 am said:

Thanks a lot !!! Works on my Dell 1720 with the 14e4:4311 !

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tuuca on February 21, 2013 at 2:45 pm said:

Very useful! I followed like 5 HOWTOs and this simple one finally works! Thanks.

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Oscar AM (@OscarAM_) on February 27, 2013 at 12:24 am said:

Thank you!
Works in a Dell Studio 15″ 1537 with Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1510 Wireless-N WLAN Mini-Card

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Josevi on March 4, 2013 at 1:35 pm said:

Very good. Congratulations,. My computer is a Dell vostro 1000. Work perfectly.
Josevi

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ioio on March 19, 2013 at 8:36 am said:

it’s working. thanks alot!

Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1490 Dual Band WLAN Mini-Card

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Mike H on March 24, 2013 at 7:17 am said:

I have an old Dell Inspiron 6400 with Broadcom BCM411 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) and this fixed the problem instantly, thanks!!

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Carlos Simental on April 1, 2013 at 10:14 pm said:

Thank you great help!!!

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chuck on April 4, 2013 at 11:08 pm said:

great worked the first time THANKS

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Thanks on April 16, 2013 at 5:05 pm said:

it worked for HP NX 6325. Thanks!

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Roman on April 17, 2013 at 11:20 am said:

Hi all, I have applied the instructions for Dell Latitude D520 (T5500) and it worked very well. Many thanks and God bless you for sharing of the instructions.
Roman

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Bill on May 5, 2013 at 11:44 am said:

Dell Inspiron E1405 and Ubuntu 12.04.02. Fixed! I almost gave up on Ubuntu until I ran across this. You have freed my machine from Windows Vista! Thanks for posting.

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Sergio on May 15, 2013 at 11:25 pm said:

It worked on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a HP Pavillion dv9000 Broadcom Wifi Thanks for posting I was almost giving up

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joe on May 30, 2013 at 12:16 pm said:

you were my last result and you did not disappoint me , I am so please that guys like you give bit of their time to help us new beginners .Also that mean I could impress the wife and claim that it was all me the genius !!! Thank you very much

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tom on June 6, 2013 at 5:46 pm said:

Very very very big thanks to you. Only one manual which works… Number 1

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Robert on June 8, 2013 at 1:24 pm said:

Thank you so much! I was struggling with this for so long. Worked on Ubuntu 12.04 on a HP Pavillion dv8000.

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Jouhsa on June 28, 2013 at 12:35 pm said:

THX! You made my day. I got frustrated trying my Acer Extensa 5220 wlan (with this tricky Broadcom chipset) to work. Several distributions of Ubuntu(Xubuntu,…), then another try with Slitaz, no chance again.

Now I installed Peppermint because the hardware detection was said to be better than anywhere else…

With this big help in little commands above everything works smooth and great –>stable.

(Sorry for mistakes, I’m from Germany and my English needs more practice.)

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bcm4311user on July 4, 2013 at 10:53 am said:

thanks !

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Czarine on July 17, 2013 at 10:29 am said:

Works on my old Acer Travelmate 7520, running Linux Mint 15 (cinnamon). Thank you so much!

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Muhelen Murugan on July 29, 2013 at 4:59 pm said:

Great solutions. It works perfectly on my Presario V3000. Thanks again!

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Luis Angel (@langelhc) on August 2, 2013 at 11:33 pm said:

worked great on my dell latitude d630 running ubuntu 12.04 64x

You are awesome!!!

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Krishnan Kartha on August 26, 2013 at 5:01 am said:

What do I do, if I am working off a live USB image? Reboot won’t work, as it will once again start the boot sequence without the wireless driver update using the commands sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer etc..
I am using the latest version of LinuxMint (version 15, KDE)

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- Neil Smith on August 26, 2013 at 4:53 pm said:
  
  Try using a wired connection to complete the install. Or the pkgs to your USB stick and install using dpkg
  
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baybatu on August 31, 2013 at 12:33 pm said:

Great article. It worked for Acer Aspire 5100. Thank you.

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Viviane Lima Ferreira on September 1, 2013 at 11:40 am said:

work with a aspire 3000 too in ubuntu 11.10! thanks! (florianópolis-sc)

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Miguel Angel Alvarado C on September 30, 2013 at 12:42 pm said:

excelente mi hermano muchas gracias 😀 buena respuesta trabaja con compac presario c500

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ericfarrow on November 2, 2013 at 11:37 am said:

Worked for Linux Mint , HP nx6110 Thank you 🙂

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Rob Taubmann on November 3, 2013 at 7:33 am said:

Thanks! Worked for Acer Aspire 3680 and Kubuntu 13.1 also!

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Kendall on November 7, 2013 at 8:22 pm said:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on an HP nx6325 and this worked fine. Thank you.

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Tomáš Plíhal on November 30, 2013 at 4:09 pm said:

Linux Mint @ HP compaq nx6325 works perfect. Big Thanks! 🙂

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- Tomáš Plíhal on November 30, 2013 at 4:24 pm said:
  
  (Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon v. 64bit)
  
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babu on December 1, 2013 at 1:49 am said:

Brand: Apple

Processor: Intel Core i5 4 1.3 GHz / 2.6 GHz / Dual-Core / L3 cache – 3 MB/ Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Integrated memory controller

RAM: LPDDR3 SDRAM 4 GB / Supported 8 GB

Display: 11.6 in / LED backlight / 1366 x 768 ( HD ) / Widescreen / Glossy

Storage: 128 GB, Flash storage SSD /

Connectivity: Wireless / Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11ac

Operating System: Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Ken on December 1, 2013 at 7:12 am said:

As above. Lubuntu 12.04 on HP nx6325 worked a treat. Very grateful for your help. Thanks.

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