[SOLVED] BCM 43228 - wifi card not detected

[venks]

Hi everyone,
I just bought a DELL Latitude laptop that comes with BCM43228 wireless card.  It comes pre-installed with Win7 and this card works fine as far as the hardware is concerned.

I installed PCLOS KDE 2011.9 (which I believe is the latest) and found that this wifi module is not detected.  Googling around tells me that it should work with dkms-broadcom-wl package which incidently is already installed.  However, under Ethernet card of HW detection in PCC it lists the hardware but the module type is "unknown".

Appreciate if someone can guide to how to get this working.  

Please note that I have not updated the system yet because can't get on the internet with wireless!!!

[AS]

Hi,

some info here:

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

and here:

http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt

note the the links refers to an updated versions of the same driver you mentioned

lspci -nn
will provide you the exact identifiers of your adapter

AS

[venks]

Hi as,
I thanks for the tip.  It looks like I need to recompile the drivers from source.  Though I am not too faint hearted to do it, but I rather use something that is pre-packaged as I don't want to break my system in the future.

Anyway, a little progress - I managed to hook up the laptop to my cousin's switch via a cable and updated the system using synaptic.  After that I blacklisted "bc43" and rebooted.   Now the Network Centre sees "BCM 43228" but when I click on it is says something like "interface not found (using driver wl)" - these are not the exact text but something to that effect.

Still waiting for other suggestions before doing the driver compilation.

[AS]

Please post the output of the command

lspci -nn

that allow us to exactly identify your network adapter, otherwise it is difficult to understand if it's already supported or not. 

[venks]

OK.  I compiled the new driver and installed as per instruction.  It works.  Just don't forget to to modprobe "cfg80211" it only works after that.  I then put "modprobe cfg80211" inside rc.local to ensure wifi can start during boot.

Thanks as.