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br14n

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Broadcom WiFi card
« on: January 14, 2010, 02:28:27 AM »
I've just booted live cd of Pclos on my Dell 1545 laptop and was disappointed to find that I was unable to connect to my router and the internet out of the box since Pclos apparently does not have a driver for my card.
After reading the info on Distrowatch I had expected it to work ootb,
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Offline marian

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Re: Broadcom WiFi card
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2010, 02:44:33 AM »
Welcome br14n.

You can probably find answers to your problems in this forum. Although it is not obvious that you need help or it is just a complain.
If you need help please be more specific. ;)
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Re: Broadcom WiFi card
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2010, 01:55:39 PM »
br14n, which broadcom chipset is it? You may have to go into hardware configuration and set it up for ndiswrapper - try the two drivers that start with "bc". It likely will work it just doesn't configure itself automatically like the native linux wifi drivers do - those "just work". Broadcom will likely work it may just need a few clicks....

Also there are some additional linux broadcom drivers in the repositories that may work for you too. Search "broadcom" in synaptic.
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Re: Broadcom WiFi card
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2010, 10:53:12 PM »
Just put to work a Broadcom chipset in a HP laptop, as sphere79 says it needs ndiswrapper
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Re: Broadcom WiFi card
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