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Thread: Broadcom 4311 driver


eck, head spinning. trying enable broadcom wifi in ubunut lucid, , have been reading day on internet. additional drivers indicates broadcom sta wireless driver installed not activated. when try activate this, fails, saying blacklisted. etc/modprobe.d file says this: warning: file autogenerated bcmwl. changes file lost. blacklist b43 blacklist b43legacy blacklist ssb blacklist bcm43xx blacklist b44 install wl modprobe -r b43 b44 b43legacy ssb; modprobe --ignore-install wl ; modprobe --ignore-install b44 have read 'commenting out' blacklist, in order driver become enabled. work? , if so, how do this? thanks! other info: lshw -c network *-network description: wireless interface product: bcm4311 802.11b/g wlan vendor: broadcom corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 01 serial: 00:19:7d:08:9d:06 width: 32 bits clock: 33mhz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.55+broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100. latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=ieee 802.11g resources: irq:18 memory:c0200000-c0203fff *-network unclaimed description: ethernet controller product: bcm4401-b0 100base-tx vendor: broadcom corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33mhz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=64 resources: memory:c0300000-c0301fff $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. conf | grep b43 # replaced b43 , ssb. sorry way above coming out in post...how post not 1 big paragraph??? tried editing (line line still comes out paragraph. eck.

hi, need check things please follow directions placing information here, hard read posted.
code:
cat /etc/lsb-release; uname -a  lspci -nnk | grep -ia2 net  iwconfig  rfkill list  lsmod
post here clicking on new reply , click # , paste information between brackets.
thank


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