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Hi,

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I have searched Google, Linux Mint forums, and Ubuntu (12.04) forums for 3 days and have yet to have found a working solution.

I have a Dell laptop with a Broadcom BCM4312 card. Output of lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 is:
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

I have gotten as far as being about to see networks in my network list but upon attempting to connect to my network I recieve the notification "Activation of network connection failed". I have checked the basics such as ensuring the password is correct (even removed wireless protection to no avail).

Output of sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py follows:

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4315 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Camulus"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 20:AA:4B:CA:F8:1E
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=4/5 Signal level=-67 dBm Noise level=-57 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr a4:ba:db:9d:7a:e5
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:45990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:54880310 (54.8 MB) TX bytes:4769168 (4.7 MB)
Interrupt:18

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c4:17:fe:28:8d:d1
inet6 addr: fe80::c617:feff:fe28:8dd1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:14319
TX packets:591 errors:318 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:28134 (28.1 KB) TX bytes:155453 (155.4 KB)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:289 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:289 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:28261 (28.2 KB) TX bytes:28261 (28.2 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached


Thank you for any assistance you can offer.
edit: 32-bit system, Linux Mint 14, Cinnamon desktop

If you have a working wired Internet connection then follow the steps here (you need the LP-PHY): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... etzal.29-1. If you don't have a working Internet connection, follow instead the steps further down on that page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... net_access.

If you didn't know, Linux Mint 14 is based on Ubuntu 12.10. So follow the steps for Ubuntu 12.10.

Ok, ran "sudo apt-get install firware-b43-lpphy-installer" and got thiis:

camulus@Dell-Inspiron-1545 ~ $ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installerReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firmware-b43-lpphy-installer is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 196 not upgraded.

I have tried switching between drivers and have tried removing "wl" drivers but I was informed that "wl" drivers were not installed. I have also checked under software sources / addional drivers and the proprietary driver is not in use. When trying to activate it, it fails without giving an error.

I'm sure the driver is installed because I can see wireless networks but I cannot connect to my network. I live near a school and have tried connecting to their open network but cannot connect to it either.

I was having the same issues ... I tried multiple installs of the recommended driver and firmwares listed.

My wireless finally worked when I went to the broadcom website and downloaded their hybrid driver and installed it manually. The README document is really helpful and has all the necessary steps.

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt

It took me about two days of playing around and trying different things while using ethernet connection and it feels good to finally go wireless.