Ubuntu refuses to detect Broadcom B43 wireless driver in my laptop, help? - Hardware & Software

I've been pretty pleased with Ubuntu so far, my only problem is that it will not detect my wireless hardware in my HP Pavillion DV1000. Any help would be amazing.

modprobe that bitch

I got it working on my HP DV8000 with a Broadcom 4311 card. Plug into Ethernet, and type this into the Terminal: [b]sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter[/b] Then reboot and it will work.

[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;22436315]I got it working on my HP DV8000 with a Broadcom 4311 card. Plug into Ethernet, and type this into the Terminal: [b]sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter[/b] Then reboot and it will work.[/QUOTE] You are awesome! Thanks a ton.

Not a problem, glad I could be of some help. :3:

Actually, I take back that awesome. Wireless still isn't working. God damn it HP.

modprobe that bitch

I have been de-awesome'd. :frown: Oh well, I guess it's time you man-up and modprobe that bitch. My HP TX1000 Tablet came with a 4311 also, but I couldn't get it working, so I just bought a Gigabyte AirCruiser Mach G from Amazon.com and it works in any Linux [I]and[/I] Windows 7 without the need for drivers! (XP and Vista need drivers though). The only snag I ran into was the BIOS has a whitelist of intel and Broadcom cards, and if your new upgrade card isn't in the whitelist, the computer won't boot. I had to HEX my new card's hardware ID into the new BIOs file and flash it before the laptop would boot. Once it was flashed and booted into Linux, wireless was working flawlessly. Still is. About a year later, I was fixing a laptop for a friend of mine, and he was running Windows Vista. So after I upgraded him to Windows 7, I swapped out his intel wireless card with my crappy Broadcom 4311 that I held on to. He doesn't know any difference, and I got another linux-friendly wireless card. :smile:

Ndiswrapper is also a fix for shit like this, although it's the dodgiest of the dodgy ways to hack up support for unrecognised hardware lol

[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;22437156]I have been de-awesome'd. :frown: Oh well, I guess it's time you man-up and modprobe that bitch. My HP TX1000 Tablet came with a 4311 also, but I couldn't get it working, so I just bought a Gigabyte AirCruiser Mach G from Amazon.com and it works in any Linux [I]and[/I] Windows 7 without the need for drivers! (XP and Vista need drivers though). The only snag I ran into was the BIOS has a whitelist of intel and Broadcom cards, and if your new upgrade card isn't in the whitelist, the computer won't boot. I had to HEX my new card's hardware ID into the new BIOs file and flash it before the laptop would boot. Once it was flashed and booted into Linux, wireless was working flawlessly. Still is. About a year later, I was fixing a laptop for a friend of mine, and he was running Windows Vista. So after I upgraded him to Windows 7, I swapped out his intel wireless card with my crappy Broadcom 4311 that I held on to. He doesn't know any difference, and I got another linux-friendly wireless card. :smile:[/QUOTE] that reminds me, I need to swap the broadcom card in my new laptop with the intel card from my old one

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;22437430]that reminds me, I need to swap the broadcom card in my new laptop with the intel card from my old one[/QUOTE] Hell yessssss...... :dance:

I have a broadcom card on my desktop and I just followed the instructions on the arch wiki. Here's the page with all the info: [url]http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43[/url] You'll need to install firmware for your card. It says in the instructions that for ubuntu it's going to prompt you to do all of this automatically when you install b43-fwcutter. (Get the right firmware and install it.) This documentation was for older versions of ubuntu. I think it should still apply. Here's some more stuff you can read: [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx[/url] [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/b43[/url] **These pages are old and may not be 100% correct Here's also the Arch Wiki entry on it: [url]http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless#b43[/url] ** the bcm43xx module is outdated you should go with the b43 on or the b43-legacy one depending on your card. If you already have b43-fwcutter you might find a way to make it automatically get everything by reading "man b43-fwcutter".

I tried getting the card working for about 30 minutes with no luck, and then I remembered that I had an intel card in my old and broken one

OP, have you looked at the Restricted Hardware Manager thing?

Pick one. >Broadcom >Linux

I picked both an it works...

[QUOTE=Boris-B;22451746]I picked both an it works...[/QUOTE] It really is hit and miss with broadcom cards.