• Registered: 2012-01-10
  • Posts: 2

Topic: Dell Vostro 1710 (Broadcom BCM4312 LP-PHY) working!

Successfully installed #! on Dell Vostro 1710 with Broadcom wireless (BCM4312 LP-PHY)

Recognised wireless card out of the box and picked up signal and wireless points, but unable to connect.

So here are some notes in case anyone else needs...

to check hardware :
lspci --vvnn | grep 14e4
output:
06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

then I picked instructions from here http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx
aptitude install wireless-tools
aptitude install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
modprobe -r b43
echo options b43 pio=1 qos=0 >> /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
modprobe b43

not sure if I needed to do the install wireless tools

  • Registered: 2011-11-28
  • Posts: 180

Re: Dell Vostro 1710 (Broadcom BCM4312 LP-PHY) working!

WELCOME!
Yep, don't you just love the Debian wireless wiki...thunbs Up to the people who maintain it..

Regarding Wireless-tool............
I believe that Wicd and or Knetworkmanager ..gnome Network manager would eliminate the need for those tools.
Unless you work from the CLI as I will do frequently. Probably the only one that might be valuable is iwconfig....iwspy doesn't work with eth or wlan..and iwlist is not very useful ..unless you need extraneous info such as frequency..

However I do install wireless-tools ...as I will sometimes perform an iwconfig wlan0 essid RouterName.. from the CLI..

OHCBR #!, Wheezy, Squeeze, Siduction, Slackware 13.xx,
  • From: inside Ed
  • Registered: 2011-07-25
  • Posts: 2,866

Re: Dell Vostro 1710 (Broadcom BCM4312 LP-PHY) working!

iwconfig is for WEP. Actually, iw is the prefered program, but wpasupplicant (used by network manager and wicd for wireless) is superior. The Debian wiki suggests wireless-tools because it has those ancient howto's, written in the time before more modern tools.

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