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Posted: **Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:51 am**

All night I've been busy getting my Dell Latitude D610 wirelessly connected to the internet with unfortunately no results.

To start with, here is the result for the sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py command:

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latitude@latitude-Latitude-D610 ~/Bureaublad $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for latitude: 
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11a/b/g (rev 03)
      ==> PCI ID = 14e4:4324 (rev 03)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:on
          
eth0      no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:3f:07:4a:cc  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:16 

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:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1680 (1.6 KB)  TX bytes:1680 (1.6 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

What have I been doing furthermore?

I ran the command lspci -vnn -d 14e4:

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03:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4324] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Dell Truemobile 1450 MiniPCI [1028:0003]
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
    Memory at dfcfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
    Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
    Kernel modules: ssb

Hence, the chip ID is BCM4360 (rev 03) and the PCI-ID is [14e4:4324] and the kernel driver in use is b43-pci-bridge.

The output for sudo lshw -C network is

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*-network
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4306 802.11a/b/g
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:03:03.0
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
       resources: irq:17 memory:dfcfe000-dfcfffff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:90:4b:dd:7d:cd
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=3.2.0-23-generic firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

My conclusion is that the b43-pci-bridge driver is used, but the firmware is not available. Strange?

Than I ran

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sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

but it had no result. So I removed it, and than I ran

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sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43legacy-installer

but that also had no result.

So far I've been reading a lot about the BCM4306 vs b43-pci-bridge driver, but I haven't found any solutions for my laptop.

Is there anybody out there who can help me?

With kind regards,

Posted: **Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:07 am**

Anybody any suggestions?

Posted: **Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:00 pm**

I'm not sure if this works in Mint 13, but look to see if this tool is available.

Connect the laptop to the internet using a wired connection then run the "Software Sources" tool from "Menu->Preferences->Software Sources" and click on the "Additional Drivers" tab. You should see a recommended driver for "Broadcom" or "wireless". Select it and install it. You may need to logout and back in, or restart, I'm not sure. Let us know if it works!

Posted: **Wed Mar 27, 2013 1:39 pm**

According to this:
http://us.generation-nt.com/bug-652821- ... 18731.html
it turned out I needed newer firmware than was included with Mint13.

Thanks to PC Spec Net from the Peppermint OS forum the problem was solved in the following way:

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sudo apt-get remove --purge firmware-b43-installer firmware-b43legacy-installer b43-fwcutter

then

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sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

then

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mkdir ~/Desktop/delete-me

then

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cd ~/Desktop/delete-me

then

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wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mipsel.tar.bz2

then

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wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

then

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tar -xvjf broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mipsel.tar.bz2

then

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sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3/driver/wl_apsta/wl_prebuilt.o

then

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sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

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sudo chmod 755 /lib/firmware/b43

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sudo chmod 755 /lib/firmware/b43legacy

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sudo modprobe -r b43

(don't worry if that command fails .. just carry on below)
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sudo modprobe b43

And that made my wireless card spring to life!

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