Howto: Broadcom on Statler Alpha1 (Page 1 of 2)

It didnt read my wireless card on the live CD,,But i decided to install anyways and go from there.
During the install it found my card ,,and said i was missing the intel 3945-2 files,,From there i downloaded the driver and put it on a flash drive and put it on my computer.From there it gives you the option to auto config,,which didnt work,,Then i did a manual config which was quite easy.It asked for the net address/gateway and name of the wireless.It worked.

I was really worried about the wireless,,But it panned out for me.

What i would recommend to anyone that reads this that has wireless they want to install during install is.
Write down the info of your card adress/gateway/passwords/and any other usefull info that you might need to manually install.

I hope this is usefull to someone.

I must admit the thought of a text install spooked me,,,But it was quite easy.

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I agree,,The one thing i noticed is there wasnt an option to choose what ext you wanted to use,,Or i missed it completely,,It installed ext3,,,which im fine with....Now i just need to figure out the basics like updating.

Actually all I needed with Statler Openbox was b43-fwcutter followed by a reboot.  Badda bing!

I do not recall seeing an EULA.

Hi All,

  Well, this did work, but at bootup, still had to type the last 3 commands in terminal and then click on wicd to get it to actually re-connect. In other words, it wouldn't auto connect @ boot-up.

  So as a work-around, I did the following:

• Created a script called wireless.sh which I put in ~/bin

#! bin bash
echo <mypassword> | sudo -S modprobe b43
echo <mypassword> | sudo -S ifconfig wlan0 up
echo <mypassword> | sudo -S iwlist scanning

• made it executable by typing in "sudo chmod +x wireless.sh"

• Then I put the following code:

# Start my wireless script
sh ~/bin/wireless.sh

• In the ~/.config/xfce4/autostart.sh file

And now, when she boots up, it says disconnected for a few seconds, and then after a moment or two, it auto connects to my preferred wireless network. Certainly not the elegant workaround, but this is what worked for one of my lappies running statler x64 with a broadcom wireless.
If someone has a better, simpler solution, love to hear it.

Peace

on my 2 laptops i try this way on booth but only work on 1
the other has a broadcom 4322 that need to use a broadcom-sta driver but i install him and nothing hapends someone can say me how to install it and make him work?

i try install via apt-get synaptic and build from source but i can make him know my wireless

on boot this hapends before load the OS

PLL Unknown for device 4322
PMV resource config Unknown

this is a dell 1510 wireless b/g/n from my dell

so can someone help me?

thanks Richs-lxh

i try on google but i can find nothing like this i try other ways that i find on net but dosent work
this work fine i dont do the 4 step because i pass by mistaken but in the end work all fine

thanks one more time

I just installed Statler XFCE amd 64 on my acer,,I installed fwcutter and i thought it worked,,It sees all my wireless signals but Ice weasel still wont work,,,Any Ideas on what i missed.

I did it threw synaptic.

Which Broadcom card does your Acer have? Did you read this part (if applicable to your card):

Ill try this first,,Im not exactly sure on how to do this.

Snow pine showed me a link that i missed,,so i should be able to get it to work with one of those ways.

Thank you

To be clear, only click the link if you have one of these specific cards: 4311, 4312, 4313, 4321, 4322

Thanks charlie01, I just tidied up the first post to make that link stand out a bit better.