Talk:Broadcom wireless chips

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Recently I had the opportunity to put Ark Linux on a friends Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop. It had two options for network connectivity.

1. Wired 2. Wireless - Broadcom (bcm43xx)

Note** I used a Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router w/ Firmware Version : v4.20.7 wireless mode set to "G" only and with no wireless security disabled since I had problems with the WEP for this application.


The install of Ark (home) went on without any problems, but the wireless network card was not working. I plugged the laptop into the router via cat 5 cable then rebooted and it was ready to go online.

Once online I opened a root konsole and did a simple 

apt-get install driver-broadcom94306

once that was done installing I unplugged the wired connection and entered in a root konsole 

ifconfig eth0 down

and rebooted my machine.

Once it was back up, in a root konsole I entered 

dhclient wlan0
The computer should connect wirelessly at this point --------

if that works for you then open a root konsole go to 

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

create a file called ifcfg-wlan0 - in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

then add this to the new file 

ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
CABLETIMEOUT=5
DEVICE=wlan0
AUTOUPDATE=no
DEFROUTE=yes

save the file and reboot.

Your machine should now be able to access the internet without having to do a dhclient wlan0 entry in konsole.

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