Broadcom 4306 Wireless Card

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Re: Broadcom 4306 Wireless Card

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Try ndiswrapper, or check with Synaptic if bcm43xx-fwcutter is installed. If firmware is missing, you probably have not installed :)
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Re: Broadcom 4306 Wireless Card

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bcm43xx did not work for me as well as ndiswrapper.
I was able to get online fine and access my network files but I could not use any security (WPA) with any measure of success. It was either really slow or would not establish a connection.

Check out these instructions for ndiswrapper: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... diswrapper

This is what I used to set up in ndiswrapper.
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