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I have been troubleshooting my HP EliteBook with BCM4322 14e4:432b wireless card. I am using Linux kernel 3.9 and I have almost found the solution. Reading on the Linux Wireless site, I found that the b43 and wl drivers should work at least somewhat with the card. I was unable to get things working using kmod-wl, and so I moved on to working with b43. I followed the guide here, and got it working using these lines of code:

modprobe -r b43 bcma
modprobe -r brcmsmac bcma
modprobe -r wl
modprobe b43

When I restart the computer, I have to do this again to get things working. I know I am supposed to blacklist the unwanted modules, but adding brcmsmac and wl to the blacklist.conf file does not seem to work. How can I get this to work permanently?

HarlemSquirrel
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If the blacklisting does not work then the module might be loaded early in the initframfs. Take a look at the file /etc/initramfs-tools/modules.

What is the content of /etc/modules? Also please post the lines you used to blacklist the modules.

br

Update:

I found the following command on the b43 homepage:

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

Have you tried that?

On the other hand, if you want to have your module loaded at run-time, add the following line to /etc/modules:

b43

to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist brcmsmac and blacklist wl

then reboot the machine.

The module should be loaded then.

ortang
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