Jump to Upstream 802.11 Linux STA driver - For download and install instructions, please see.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linuxsta.php. Installing Broadcom BCM43142 Drivers on Kali Linux Introduction I've seen some confusion when it comes to installing the wireless drivers for Broadcom's BCM43142 802.11b/g/n card, specifically with Kali or other Debian based distributions. Troubleshooting wireless driver issues in Linux can be a frustrating experience if. Installing Kali Linux / Troubleshooting. STA drivers (Ralink, Broadcom).
This HOW TO describes enabling support for WiFi devices based on Broadcom 4311/4312/4313/4321/4322/5 chipsets - using Broadcom's hybrid device driver - on Debian systems. This tutorial was prepared shortly after the release of LMDE 201009 and draws heavily on Debian Wiki page.Support of these chipsets is possible using a driver (wl) made available by the vendor, which includes a binary-only component targeted for the x86 or x86-64 architecture. All supported devices are listed at the end of this page. This is a 'non-free' driver.The BCM4313, BCM43224 and BCM43225 chipsets are alternatively supported by the brcm80211 driver.And as of 9 Sept 2010 Broadcom announced the. Initial release of a fully-open Linux driver for it's latest generation of 11n chipsets. The driver, while still a work in progress. Supports multiple current chips (BCM4313, BCM43224, BCM43225) as well as providing a framework for supporting additional chips in the futureNOTE: (2011/2/23) The following has been observed specifically for the BCM4313 chipset (Device ID 14E4:4727) but may apply to other chipsets which were updated from providing 802.11b/g to 802.11b/g/n support.
The b/g version of BCM 4313 has been supported since version 5.60.48.36 of the driver, currently available in the Debian testing non-free repositories. Support for the b/g/n revision of BCM 4313 requires use of driver version 5.100.82.38 or newer, which is not currently available in the repositories.
You will need to use installation method 3, see below.NOTE 2: (2011/3/6) Version 5.100.82.38-1 of Broadcom-STA is now available in the LMDE repositories. Installation method 1 should work for newer wifi cards.INSTALLATIONMETHOD 11. The Mint developers of LMDE have enabled the 'non-free' repositories by default. To confirm this navigate to.Menu Administration Software Sources.Select the tabDebian Testing Officially supported DFSG-compatible Software with Non-free Dependencies Non-DFSG-compatible Software should be present and selected, select it if not currently enabled.If the 'non-free' repository was not present, add it to to /etc/apt/sources.list Open the file withgksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.listand add these lines at the end of the file# Debian Testing (currently Wheezy)deb testing main contrib non-freesave and close.Updated to reflect testing repositories instead of Squeeze repositories.2. The remainder of the installation process will be performed as the root user in a terminal. Open a terminal, type su, press, type your password (there will be no response from the blinking cursor), press. The terminal prompt will change from something like username@computer-name $ to computer-name username # Note: the change from $ to #.
Also, to avoid confusion between a one (1) and lowercase L (l) commands can be copied from the tutorial and pasted into the terminal. The key combination to paste into the terminal is3.
Update the list of available packages. Install the module-assistant and wireless-tools packages:apt-get updateapt-get install module-assistant wireless-tools4. Build and install a broadcom-sta-modules-. package for your system, using Module-Assistant:m-a a-i broadcom-staThe 'a-i' stands for 'auto-install,' meaning 'download the module source, compile it for the current kernel and install it'.5. Blacklist the brcm80211 module, to prevent it conflicting for support of BCM4313, BCM43224 and BCM43225 devices:echo blacklist brcm80211 /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf6. Rebuild your initial ramdisk, to blacklist modules defined at /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf within initramfs:update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r)7. Unload conflicting modules:modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcm802118.
Load the wl module:modprobe wl9. Verify your device has an available interface:iwconfig10. Your wireless interface as appropriate.11. Exit the root terminal:exitMETHOD 2A script to automate the above process was written and posted in the Linux Mint Forum by Gramps50. The script is at the end of the post.METHOD 3To install from source see the Broadcom.
See the file first.KNOWN PROBLEMS.The Sonics Silicon Backplane driver (ssb) conflicts with the wl driver (545388, broadcom-sta-common/README.Debian).b44, b43, b43legacy and ssb are blacklisted by default as of broadcom-sta 5.10.91.9.3-3.This prevents use of any Ethernet device supported by b44.Frequent disconnections can be experienced. This may be resolved by disabling power management via iwconfig(8) (e.g. Thank you from a Linux Newbie.I was on Linuxmint 9 - everything worked but looking here in the forums came across LMDE and wanted to try it out.LMDE seems to be better, quicker and my lappie seems to run cooler compared to Linux mint 9.Got my wireless working but must have done something wrong as I have lost my wired connection - maybe I used the wrong method.Will now try to get wired working again. If I can, I think I will stick to LMDE.RajShould have looked in 'known Problems'Any one know if this has been fixed in the last 2 months?
(Noticed that this tutorial was last updated 2 months ago).