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-Hi, i am looking for help with installing the correct drivers for a broadcom 4311 NIC. I am using Ubuntu 13.04 on a dell vostro 1500 and this has been terribly frustrating. I have installed Ubuntu on three other dell's, two of which i had to import drivers via SD, all with Broadcom NICs. I Have never been so stumped.

-The major issue for me is trying to install driver/firmware with no eth or wifi to the laptop in question. I have tried to install the STA proprietary driver = no luck, tried the bcmwl driver = no luck' also tried installing b43-fwcutter/firmware-b43-installer and these won't install due to error during installation requires version (>= 015-14.1). Downloaded the required version and still get error message. I have followed several different posts that have variations of installing the drivers. Overall its becoming very irritating with all the different forums on this subject and i would like to hear what some of the people from the community think. Please Help!

PWN900
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You can easily install the firmware without an internet connection. Please download this file to a USB key or similar: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58267392/b43.zip Drag and drop the file to the desktop of your Ubuntu machine. Right-click it and select 'Extract Here.' Now open a terminal and do:

sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/b43
sudo cp Desktop/b43/*  /lib/firmware/b43

Now we unload and reload the driver so it sees and uses the firmware:

sudo modprobe -r b43 && sudo modprobe b43

Your wireless should now be working.

chili555
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