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10/23/12 at 12:24pm

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oops, a little too late. i tried the first one you posted fir3 and now the laptop will try to connect to networks, but not connect.(at least not to my school one)

also here:

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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: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
        Kernel modules: ssb

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10/23/12 at 12:37pm

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Looks like it's loading the driver properly, not sure what else could be wrong. ( I don't use Ubuntu so have to look at the ways they do things e.e )

But a bit of googling and it seems to have found a similar Ubuntu forum thread with the same card and same problem, driver is active but the card won't connect, you can try the solution given by the forum staff member http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11906628&postcount=5 and see if it helps any ( basically cleans out everything and installs b43 and b43-fwcutter ).

sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source

then

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

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10/23/12 at 12:40pm

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Ah, the infamous Broadcom 43xx. My heart goes out to you

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10/23/12 at 12:50pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kz26

Ah, the infamous Broadcom 43xx. My heart goes out to you

Yes indeed. I haven't had a problem with it on Arch for over a year now, but Debian and Ubuntu still seem to have issues :/

My last Debian install on my laptop required me to use testing (Wheezy) to get it to work, I believe mostly to do with the newer kernel, tried everything on Squeeze and it just wouldn't connect to anything.

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10/23/12 at 6:40pm

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Originally Posted by Shrak

Looks like it's loading the driver properly, not sure what else could be wrong. ( I don't use Ubuntu so have to look at the ways they do things e.e )
But a bit of googling and it seems to have found a similar Ubuntu forum thread with the same card and same problem, driver is active but the card won't connect, you can try the solution given by the forum staff member http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11906628&postcount=5 and see if it helps any ( basically cleans out everything and installs b43 and b43-fwcutter ).
sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source
then
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

alright, i'll try that. thanks for the help.

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Ah, the infamous Broadcom 43xx. My heart goes out to you

infamous? oh boy...

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10/23/12 at 6:57pm

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infamous? oh boy...

Yeah, some 43xx chips work, while others... take a bit of well... just pick up your computer and smash it on the desk out of frustration

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10/24/12 at 1:24pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Shrak

Looks like it's loading the driver properly, not sure what else could be wrong. ( I don't use Ubuntu so have to look at the ways they do things e.e )
But a bit of googling and it seems to have found a similar Ubuntu forum thread with the same card and same problem, driver is active but the card won't connect, you can try the solution given by the forum staff member http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11906628&postcount=5 and see if it helps any ( basically cleans out everything and installs b43 and b43-fwcutter ).
sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source
then
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

alright, i finally got around to doing that.
still nothing though. here's what i put into terminal:

Code:

spitfire@craptop:~$ sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package broadcom-sta-common is not installed, so not removed
Package broadcom-sta-source is not installed, so not removed
Package bcmwl-kernel-source is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  menu linux-headers-3.2.0-29 linux-headers-3.2.0-29-generic dkms
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
spitfire@craptop:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
b43-fwcutter is already the newest version.
b43-fwcutter set to manually installed.
firmware-b43-installer is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  menu linux-headers-3.2.0-29 linux-headers-3.2.0-29-generic dkms
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
spitfire@craptop:~$

same error as before. it scans for a network, but never actually connects.

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10/25/12 at 11:49am

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update:
my wifi seems to be working now

i just turned my computer on today and it seems to connect fine.

thank you guys for helping me with this, i will of course rep all of you who helped.

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10/25/12 at 11:50am

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And thus the BCM42XX mystery continues

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11/1/12 at 11:21pm

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I am still new to this but I had these issues with my infamous netgear adapter. It would refuse to connect to a secure network or even the network at first., but even to get it installed I had to install ndiswrapper to get it working and even after I had to probe it to activate it to get it to work. If you still have issues, my advice is just to buy a $29.00 Belkin N150 USB adapter. It works perfect with Ubuntu style distros like mint and others. It maybe a cheap way of fixing it but at least in the future you don't have to worry about it and it will be a long time before any real house hold will hit 150Mbps. I know this thread is a week old but hope it helps someone still.
Edited by gabead - 11/2/12 at 12:26am

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