Problems setting up dell laptop wireless.

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I am having a very specific problem setting up the wireless card in my Dell Inspiron 1545.

The card’s description under lspci is this:

0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

I have the required drivers from this website: Broadcom.com - 802.11 Linux STA driver

As far as I can tell I have followed all the instructions given by the readme, I have all kernel packages that I had understood to be required but when I try to make the Makefile I am given this:

borgs0@linux-yjl1:~/hybrid_wl> make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/uname -r/build M=pwd
make[1]: Entering directory /lib/modules/2.6.34-12-desktop/build' make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory /lib/modules/2.6.34-12-desktop/build’
make: *** [all] Error 2

I am a total noob at anything Linux. I am a computer science major trying to delve into this a little bit and any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Ok, well I was able to get the Makefile to do what it’s supposed to… kind of… now it is running in an infinite loop and I don’t know why. My guess is that I forgot to take out a link somewhere but I have no idea where. Total noob… help please.

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Install Broadcom Drivers from Packman

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Ok, well in accordance with caf4926’s suggestion I have installed the Broadcom drivers from Packman. However I am still clueless as to my next move in setting up the connection. Again any help at all would be appreciated. If you need any information just say so.

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Post the result of:

rpm -qa | grep kernel

rpm -qa | grep broadcom

uname -a

/sbin/lspci -nnk
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No need, thank you for the help.

I got the wireless working after installing the bcm43xx firmware from the console. Thanks so much for the help, this forum is definately a valuable resource.