Broadcom Wireless Issues in Lubuntu 14.04
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I recently installed Lubuntu 14.04 on my parents' old laptop, and I've been having a super difficult time getting the Broadcom card up and running. I've been following this thread: Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers
...but I'm still stuck.
lspci -vnn | grep Network
showed:
06:05.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 02)
iwconfig
showed:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
I've installed b43-firmware-installer
and b43-fwcutter
and also the linux-firmware-nonfree
package. At boot, I keep getting a b43-phy0 error, so I tried sudo rmmod b43
, and I got:
rmmod: ERROR: Module b43 is not currently loaded
I also tried:
dmesg | grep b43
[ 17.318405] b43legacy-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found (core revision 4)
[ 17.384870] b43legacy-phy0: Loading firmware b43legacy/ucode4.fw
[ 18.046777] b43legacy ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
[ 18.046785] b43legacy ssb0:0: Falling back to user helper
[ 18.047858] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43legacy/ucode4.fw" not
found or load failed.
[ 18.047965] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: You must go to
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the
correct firmware (version 3).
I went to url it told me to, but it didn't tell me to do anything I haven't already tried.
Any help and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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