Broadcom Wireless on Linux

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At work I have a Dell laptop with a Broadcom BCM94311MCG wireless card:

# lspci ... 0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) ... # lspci -n ... 0b:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 01) ...

The drivers that Ubuntu installs by default were giving me lots of headaches depending on the network’s access point: on some of them the card worked OK; on some others I kept loosing the connection every few minutes, or I couldn’t connect at all. I never found out if the problem was the encryption algorithm in use, or the wifi a/b/g/whatever protocol. Bottom line is the driver worked on some networks but didn’t on some others.

A co-worker told me he had the same problem until he switched to the ndiswrapper driver, so reluctantly I tried it. It work great. :)
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3 Responses to “Broadcom Wireless on Linux”


  1. 1 Meiziu

    con lo cual se demuestra q güindos le da mil vuelta a Linux, ajajajaja
    Bisent, porque te dio por linux en vez de windows? joder, me salvarías la vida con tus conocimientos, collonsss.

  2. 2 bisente

    Jejejeje

    Yo ya te dije de meterle Linux a los TPVs para putear a los quiosqueros y que no supieran cómo meter el eMule para bajarse “las vecinitas cachondas se lo montan con el butanero”. Pero no me hiciste caso y pasa lo que pasa… ;)

    Qué lejos queda todo ésto, ¿no? :)

  3. 3 Meiziu

    queda tan lejos, que ni me acuerdo ya …
    Parece que hay vida después de renr , jejeje.

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