• Registered: 2009-05-08
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Topic: broadcom wireless worked in 9.04 but not statler alpha2.

sorry i this has been answered, i'm over tired. that is my excuse

i have a broadcom 4312 (on a dell inspiron laptop) 9.04 recognised everything out of the box, the restricted drivers manager said it was using restricted drivers, but in statler a2, nothing.

i plugged into the modem directly to try to download the drivers (i downloaded ones in synaptic that said non-free and had the right model number)
still nothing.
and now i've given up, i think the network cable is dodgy, too much annoyance for one day.

is it a function of moving to debian rather than ubuntu base (or being an alpha release)  that the correct setup wasn't inlcuded?

  • ali
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  • Registered: 2010-05-31
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Re: broadcom wireless worked in 9.04 but not statler alpha2.

as far as i know alot of drivers were removed from the latest kernel, my ralink 2860 being among the removed ones so i don't think its statler based you probably need to manually install the drivers

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  • Registered: 2008-12-13
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Re: broadcom wireless worked in 9.04 but not statler alpha2.

There are 2 types of 4312-
try the firmware-b43-installer or firmware-b43-lpphy-installer packages (whichever one you didn't)

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  • Registered: 2010-04-10
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Re: broadcom wireless worked in 9.04 but not statler alpha2.

I just downloaded bcmwl-kernel-sources as debs and copied them to my liveUSB

  • bolle
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Re: broadcom wireless worked in 9.04 but not statler alpha2.

You need to follow this..
http://wiki.debian.org/wl

Scroll down to Squeeze smile

Its a pain, hopefully Corenominal includes it in the next alpha/beta wink

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  • From: Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Registered: 2010-01-12
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Re: broadcom wireless worked in 9.04 but not statler alpha2.

I had the same difficulties trying to install Statler, and any other Debian distro, on my Lenovo S10 netbook. I tried all of the instructions posted above but couldn't get it to work (note that I'm not knowledgeable about this stuff and it could probably have been done correctly by somebody who knows their way around more.) I'm using an Ubuntu-based distro now until getting Broadcom wireless to work with Debian is easier. I heard an announcement a few weeks back that Broadcom is releasing the source code for their wireless drivers, so we'll be up and running eventually.

  • Registered: 2008-11-24
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Re: broadcom wireless worked in 9.04 but not statler alpha2.

atomicbricks wrote:

I'm using an Ubuntu-based distro now until getting Broadcom wireless to work with Debian is easier. I heard an announcement a few weeks back that Broadcom is releasing the source code for their wireless drivers, so we'll be up and running eventually.

If it is working in Ubuntu, use the terminal command 'lsmod' (without the quotes) to determine which module is in use. Chances are it's either b43 or wl. Then, you know which module to install in Debian, following the instructions in the Wiki.

  • From: 127.0.0.1
  • Registered: 2010-07-02
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Re: broadcom wireless worked in 9.04 but not statler alpha2.

I have probably re-installed statler around 10 times now due to breakage with the broadcom 4312 driver. I had the proprietary broadcom-sta driver working great for a while but ended up switching back due to it not reporting stats to conky correctly. Tonight I think I may have identified the culprit. Does statler use the network-manager-gnome package? It seems every time i run apt-get autoremove it breaks the driver. Here's a list of things that are currently "no longer required" according to aptitude:
http://pastebin.ca/1999647

  • From: California, USA
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: broadcom wireless worked in 9.04 but not statler alpha2.

Yes Statler does use the network-manager-gnome package. Its a known issue that network-manager-gnome shows up in autoremove's list. Simply reinstalling should fix it.

sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
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