My wireless doesn't work.

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My Acer Aspire 5741-3541 has a Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n.

I tried installing broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4 but it didn’t work. I am guesses its the wrong one but I cannot find the right one. A search for this specific card returned no matches.

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You need to use the Broadcom-wl driver. At the moment, b43 does not handle any 802.11n cards. BTW, you cannot “install” broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4. That is a data archive that contains a driver for the MIPS architecture. What you can do is extract firmware from that archive to be used by b43. That firmware is already contained within the Broadcom driver.

For my benefit, what does the output of ‘/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep 14e4’ show?

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The aforementioned Acer lacks an internet connection of any kind. I’ll have download that driver like the last to this computer burn it to a cd and use the command line to make use of it. Is there a place I can download it?

And for the last question:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1692] [rev 01]
02:00.0 Network Controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] [rev 01]

I think I did that without typos.

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On 08/03/2010 05:36 PM, Argedracorius wrote:
>
> The aforementioned Acer lacks an internet connection of any kind. I’ll
> have download that driver like the last to this computer burn it to a cd
> and use the command line to make use of it. Is there a place I can
> download it?
>
> And for the last question:
> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink
> BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1692] [rev 01]
> 02:00.0 Network Controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225
> 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] [rev 01]
>
> I think I did that without typos.

The critical part for me was the 14e4:4357. Broadcom wl will work.

To get the necessary rpm, go to http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/11.3 and find
the package that matches your kernel as shown by the ‘uname -r’ command.

One example would be

/i586/broadcom-wl-kmp-default-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.0_12-7.pm.7.2.i586.rpm.

This is Broadcom’s version 5.60.48.36 for the default kernel 2.6.34.0_12 on a
32-bit system. Download that file wherever you can, take it to the Linux system
by USB stick, and install with

sudo rpm -i broadcom…rpm

Once it is installed, you should reboot and then configure the wireless.

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Woo hoo, thanx. You are my new favorite person!

Hmm now to fight with it to get it connect to my router. If it ain’t onw thing…>:(

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Ok it works now, yay. My tinkering borked something I just had to do a fresh install to undo my errr mistakes.