Wireless Problems

[flonders]

I put Mint 12.04 on my friend's laptop after because he wants to get into linux and I've heard Mint is the most user friendly. However I've only ever used RPM distros so it's a bit foreign to me. Anyway, when trying to install broadcom driver's on his Dell Inspiron 1545 with BCM4312 wireless card, this is the jockey log that isn't package processing:

2012-05-04 00:01:58,310 WARNING: modinfo for module wl failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module wl

2012-05-04 00:01:58,310 WARNING: /sys/module/wl/drivers does not exist, cannot rebind wl driver
2012-05-04 00:01:58,389 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: enabled, b43legacy: enabled
2012-05-04 00:03:42,717 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: enabled, b43legacy: enabled
2012-05-04 00:03:42,762 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: enabled, b43legacy: enabled
2012-05-04 00:03:42,782 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: enabled, b43legacy: enabled


It's running Mint 12 with KDE 4.7.4. Any help on getting working drivers would be much appreciated.

[ElMugroso]

I did this and Broadcom worked in Mint Lisa:

open terminal and type:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo reboot

HOWEVER, do all this while still hardconnected to internet, because after reboot, need to go to the upper top right bar and click on a small icon that looks maybe like a computer, and it will then show the available wirelss networds WHILE STILL ONE IS HARDconnected to the internet. Then choose the wireless network to use. Then nicely gives message “...connected”...Then unplug hardwire internet connection and see if wirelss works. One way is to click in the splash menu “What’s new”, which brings firefox and THAT webpage. Then can use firefox..