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brcmsmac does not work

I am attempting to enable my wireless interface in Slax Linux, so far, I know the driver I need is brcmsmac, since I have a broadcom card; and this work in Slackware. The driver is available and does ...
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Fedora 18 No Wireless

Just installed Fedora 18 and I can't get the wireless to work. What do I have and what have I done? I have a Broadcom BCM4312 which is supported by the broadcom-wl driver. (link) lspci | grep ...
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How can I get Broadcom 4301 to work in Crunchbang Linux?

I've sunk about 6 hours into this and have not made much progress. I've installed Crunchbang, 32-bit, Waldorf on a Dell Inspiron D600. Before I took any steps, the network manager told me ...
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Errors while installing broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3-1.fc12.noarch

I have Fedora 12 on a Dell Vostro laptop. broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3-1.fc12.noarch.rpm cannot be installed. I'm getting this error: Error: Package: broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3-1.fc12.noarch ...
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Enabling bwn in FreeBSD

I am trying to load the bwn driver as a module as mentioned in the man page. However, when I attempted to edit /boot/defaults/loader.conf I could not write the changes to the file, this was attempted ...
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Unable to connect to a wifi network with a special SSID

My current wifi network (and i'm writing this with the help of Windows -.- ) has a special character in it's SSID: "รถ", a so-called "umlaut". If changing the SSID is not an option, how to connect to ...
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Kernel 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 broadcom wireless not appearing

I'm using kernel 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 and I have a Broadcom 4312. When I run iwconfig, I get the following: lo no wireless extensions. p2p1 no wireless extensions. I cannot use ...
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Broadcom wireless card in with Fedora 16

I just installed Fedora as a dual-boot (other OS in Win7) on my Dell Inspiron 1750 and, of course, the wireless card is missing firmware. The wireless card is called Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN ...
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Fedora 12 No wireless networks detected

I have just bought a Dell Inspiron 1510 and loaded Fedora 12 along with Windows. I cannot detect any wireless networks through my network applet on the tool bar. $:lscpi 12:00.0 Network controller: ...
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Opensuse 11.3 with Dell inspiron 1564 wireless

When I was using ubuntu i used to add the cd to software sources and install a package called bcmwl* and the wireless would work immediately. Now on Opensuse the wireless is not working and as a ...
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Multiple USB wireless devices?

I have a broadcom wireless card in my laptop and as far as I know, it acts as an USB device. I also have one USB stick wireless device (TL-WN422G - uses ath9k_htc driver) which I want to use at the ...