broadcom b43 wireless driver not working

[ricardezra]

i just put linux mint 9 on my dell inspiron everything works but the wireless driver does anyone have a clue with what to do i click on activate the driver but a error keep saying it does not want to work

[JasonLG]

i just put linux mint 9 on my dell inspiron everything works but the wireless driver does anyone have a clue with what to do i click on activate the driver but a error keep saying it does not want to work

The b43 driver is junk on my inspiron 1525. The STA driver is much better, I've never had any problems with it. If the STA driver is available I would uninstall the b43 driver and use it.

[ricardezra]

ok when i click hardware driver bothar avilable when i click install system error comes saying failed to fetch could not resolve it wont install either drivers

[linuxnoobie]

Hi everybody,

I had the same problem on my Dell M65.

I had to look on the web for the broadcom firmware and I had to use the b43-fwcutter package to extract the firmware to /lib/firmware
A quick reboot later and I then had wifi.

Hope this helps.

LinuxNoobie.

P.S.

The terminal command I used was

b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware *.o

b43-fwcutter can be downloaded from the ubuntu repositories online or via the package manager.

The firmware I got from following the info on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Good luck!

[JasonLG]

ok when i click hardware driver bothar avilable when i click install system error comes saying failed to fetch could not resolve it wont install either drivers

You have to be connected via Ethernet to download the drivers.