Comments on: Broadcom BCM4322 Wireless On Ubuntu Karmic

By: drubin

drubin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:02:58 +0000

@hyc: Hi ye for some reason never had any issues with it, I will give you that intel is > broadcom as far as drivers go but for this. I did have minor issues using the PAE kernel since I would have to compile my own driver which was a pain so I have stuck with the 32bit os version. Are you sure you are using the same driver as I did?

By: hyc

hyc — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:31:39 +0000

I’m surprised you’ve had a good experience with it. The BCM4322 in my Dell Precision M4400 is pretty awful. If you ever run “ifconfig xx down” on it, you will never be able to bring it back up again. It also frequently hangs if you try to scan while it’s already associated to an AP. (Which is what brought me to trying to toggle the interface down and up again in the first place…) Basically the Broadcom driver is a joke, it only works correctly once and then if you need to reinitialize it, forget it – reboot is your only option.

I’m about to replace it with an Intel 5300 from eBay…

By: drubin

drubin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:44:45 +0000

@James D: That really does suck. The reason for my post was mainly for the people that have my exact driver. The first link in Google involves re-compiling it which isn't ideal for new users and a simple apt-get is much easier to try as a first attempt ;-p

By: James D

James D — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:34:09 +0000

The problem with the precompiled driver in Ubuntu is that it only works with a limited subset of 43xx cards. For instance, I have a 4303 on one machine, and no version of Ubuntu after 9.04 will play nicely with it. Roughly at the same time as the precompiled driver appeared, someone did something awful to the kernel — either in version 2.6.29 or 2.6.30 — that broke fwcutter, and none of the half-dozen people who understand the kernel has bothered to fix this regression yet.

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:10:13 +0000

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By: Kilos

Kilos — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:05:09 +0000

Well done. Keep it up. Many will learn from you.
Thank you

By: drubin

drubin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:37:21 +0000

@Christoph Shipley: Ye these are the Jockey installed ones. There just seems to be a bug with Karmic picking up the need for using them

luckily I don’t have a fingerprint reader but that is good to know

By: Christoph Shipley

Christoph Shipley — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:28:04 +0000

I’ve been using these jockey installed drivers on many a Dell Latitude D430, D630, and E6400. They work well. But you can forget about the fingerprint reader.

By: drubin

drubin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:33:40 +0000

thanks @y-lee

Last night I also tried to get the pae kernel going and these drivers were not happy. ;/ and not so keen to go down the compile your own drivers thing. So will see how things go

By: y-lee

y-lee — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:55:59 +0000

I have been using an Acer netbook with a broadcom wireless card in it and more or less distro hopping and have noticed some distros like mint or ubuntu 9.04 recognize the card immediately but oddly enough ubuntu 9.10 doesn’t. Helena Mint which I thought was based on Karmic Koala has no problems recognizing the cards, hmmm weird. Anyway Nice summary drubin.