The Broadcom driver MUST be installed FIRST before any others. Example I have a HP TX2-1050ED with Broadcom B43 and ATI Raedon graphics. I enabled the ATI Raedon driver first then the Broadcom driver this lead to the errors mentioned above. When I uninstalled the ATI driver then installed the Broadcom driver and reboot. I had wireless. Sep 17, 2012 Tracey Brown September 17, 2012 Broadcom Wireless Driver, USB Wireless, Windows 7, Windows XP, Wireless Drivers This is the Windows version of the Broadcom 802.11n Wireless LAN Driver. This is the latest driver for this wireless adapter and comes for the WinXP 32/64, Vista 32/64, Win7 32/64 operating system.
Learn how to reinstall the wireless network adapter driver through device manager in Windows. How To Connect an HP Printer to a Wireless Network Using Wi-Fi Protected Setup Currently loaded videos are 1 through 6 of 6 total videos. First page loaded, no previous page available. Broadcom 802.11 a/b/g WLAN Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN Broadcom 4321AG 802.11a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi Adapter Broadcom 4322AG 802.11a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi Adapter ENHANCEMENTS: Broadcom Wireless LAN 5.10.91.8 driver. FIXES: - Fix for reduction of maximum range/throughput discovered with 5.10.91.4 driver. This was more pronounced in 5GHz bands than 2.4GHz. The Broadcom driver MUST be installed FIRST before any others. Example I have a HP TX2-1050ED with Broadcom B43 and ATI Raedon graphics. I enabled the ATI Raedon driver first then the Broadcom driver this lead to the errors mentioned above. When I uninstalled the ATI driver then installed the Broadcom driver and reboot. I had wireless.
Sep 29, 2015 This driver below is for the Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter using a Windows 10 operating system. Note that if you are looking for the Broadcom Windows 7 version then you can also find it located on this website. This driver was released.
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I'm having serious problems installing the Broadcom drivers for Ubuntu. It worked perfectly on my previous version, but now, it is impossible.
What are the steps to install Broadcom wireless drivers for a BCM43xx card?
I'm a user with no advance knowledge in Linux, so I would need clear explanations on how to make, compile, etc.
lspci -vnn | grep Network showed:
iwconfig showed:
NOTE: Answer below is updated every time new information is added and confirmed working.
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This answer is based on an extensive research done by various Ubuntu users that worked together in almost all issues related to Broadcom. Special thanks to chili555 who helped in the Ubuntu forums and on this site with many questions related to Wireless devices and to others who have contributed through E-Mail, chats, IRC and more in testing various drivers with several of the most popular Broadcom Wireless cards (Huge Thanks to Chili555 really. This guy knows his stuff).
In total we wanted to offer an answer that could be easy to follow and covered most Broadcom Cards / Drivers. After you follow this guide, you will NEED to test your wireless connection for at least 2 hours (I actually recommend 8 hours) with another device in either Ad-Hoc Mode, Infrastructure Mode or Both. Common problems that will be solved (Apart from drivers not installing) are:
Link 1 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1060268
Link 2 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/732677 Link 3 - Gives an error similar to 'Sorry, installation of this driver failed.'
So with that in mind, the following is what we have right now which is simplified in just 3 steps:
There are dozens of Broadcom wireless cards and more seem to appear every day. The key to finding the correct driver for any network card is what is known as the PCI ID (PCI.ID). To find out which PCI.ID you have, we proceed to opening the terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+T (It should open a window with a blank background) and inside this terminal we run the following command:
You will get something like the following if you have a Broadcom Wireless Adapter (The ID 14e4 used in the example above in most cases is a Broadcom Wireless Card):
The PCI.ID in this example is 14e4:4320 as seen inside the Brackets [..]. In some cases you will also need the revision version (if it appears) for some special cases. In this case, the revision version is rev 03 as shown inside the Parentheses (..) at the end. So what you will need after this search is:
With this new information you can look in the table below and select the appropriate method to install your driver. For example, In this case, since you have the 14e4:4320 rev 03, if we go down the list to the one that shows the exact same PCI.ID you will see that in the columns for Ubuntu 12.04, 13.10 or 14.04 it shows the
firmware-b43-installer package driver. This means that you will only have to install this particular package since it appears in all Ubuntu version columns.
NOTE - Before proceeding, if you have previously installed any drivers, have blacklisted or uncommented any driver files or configuration files or have done any changes whatsoever to the system to make the drivers work in previous attempts, you will need to undo them in order to follow this guide. We assume you are doing this from scratch and have not changed any configuration files, modules or drivers in the system in any way (apart from updating the system). This includes any installations using apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, dpkg, software center or manual compilation and installation of the packages. The system has to start from scratch in order for this to work and to avoid any conflicts that may appear if earlier work was done.
For example, if you have previously installed the
bcmwl-kernel-source package, you will need to remove it by using the purge method:
If you have just installed Ubuntu, you will need to build an index of available packages before we can install your driver if you have not done so already:
I would even go so further as to update the Ubuntu list of PCI.IDs:
Photoshop cs5 cracked. Just in case the ID of a particular new Broadcom Device you are using has just appeared.
Now using the PCI.ID you found in the steps above, we then search in the list below to find the matching PCI.ID and the method to install the driver associated with it in a simple and correct way. The terminal will be used to avoid any GUI related issues. This applies with all cases, except as noted. The installation procedure is done only via terminal and also while connected to the internet with a temporary wired ethernet connection or USB modem or any means possible that can give your PC, for the time, Internet access. After you find in the list below the correct package we then proceed with the installation.
Assuming you used the PCI.ID 14e4:4320 rev 03 as found in your search above, and then looked at the table below and found that the correct package to install is the
firmware-b43-installer , we then proceed to simply install this package in the terminal:
and then reboot
The format to install is pretty simple, it's just:
In the example above, the PACKAGE_NAME is
firmware-b43-installer .
BROADCOM WIRELESS TABLE (Updated Aug 18, 2017)
Special Case #1 - Uses
bcma and brcmsmac driver combination. Required firmware is installed by default in the package linux-firmware .
Special Case #2 - For the ASUS PCE-AC88 AC3100 the steps are:
In hardware like the Lenovo S10-2, if your wireless card gets stuck trying to connect to an SSID (keeps trying to connect), then the alternative to get it working would be to install the
bcmwl-kernel-source package (Remove any other installed packages related to it). Read the Debugging section below for more information regarding this wireless device.
IMPORTANT NOTE - After September 2014, if you follow this answer and still you have problems installing the correct driver, please try the
firmware-b43-installer package and notify us via comments. There were some changes and some drivers will only work with this package. Remember to have a clean system before installing it:
In some particular cases, after installing the
firmware-b43-installer you need to remove the b43 module, enable it again and even proceed to unblock with rfkill:
If you have a Broadcom card that has a different pci.id, please ask a new question. Once solved, the solution will be added to this howto.
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