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A reverse-engineered open-source driver suitable for some Broadcom wireless devices, introduced in the 2.6.24 Linux kernel.

b43 and b43legacy are versions of an open-source driver for Broadcom wireless devices. It was developed by reverse engineering when the company did not provide Linux-compatible drivers and introduced in the 2.6.24 Linux kernel. Some users may need to install it using the firmware-b43-installer package, or blacklist it to prevent conflict if using a different Broadcom module. If you need help with a Broadcom wireless device, please read our canonical post to find and install the correct driver and troubleshoot issues:

Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers

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How can I switch between “wl” and “b43” wifi modules without rebooting?

If I restart my computer with the following in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: blacklist b43 blacklist ssb blacklist wl Then I can either modprobe wl (broadcom STA, works well) or modprobe b43 (highly unstable on my B4331 rev02). But if any any…
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Kubuntu 22.04 won't boot after installing Xanmod Kernal

I installed Xanmod Kernal while setting up Lutris, however when I rebooted, the system wouldn't boot. I thought it might be because I have secure boot enabled, so I went and disabled secure boot but it still won't start up. The messages displayed…
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Ubuntu 18.04 wlan driver not working (b43 for BCM4318)

I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 (minimal installation), but I have been having issues trying to configure a PCI Wlan card (US robotics with the BCM4318 chip). I have come to the following resources and guides (although some of them are outdated…
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Support for cores revision ox17 and ox18 disabled by module param allsupport=0. Try b43 allsupport =1

Why do i get a black screen on boot (after installing the latest ubuntu 14.10 updates) with the following message. [ 16.697414] Support for cores revision ox17 and ox18 disabled by module param allsupport=0. Try b43 allsupport =1 I can boot ok with…
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Wifi not resuming after suspend

Wifi worked fine on my dell inspiron e1505 with broadcom 4311 wifi. Since upgrading to 14.04, wifi does not work after resuming from (close-the-lid) suspend. If I then manually put it in suspend again with the keyboard, wifi works on resume ~95%…
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Acer Aspire wifi on Broadcom b43 not working

ck, including userspace. [ 79.694480] [drm] Please file a _new_ bug report on bugs.freedesktop.org against DRI -> DRM/Intel [ 79.694486] [drm] drm/i915 developers can then reassign to the right component if it's not a kernel issue. [ …
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Internet Connection failures

I have an HP Mini 1035NR that I just installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 on from 11.04. My wifi would connect just fine before I did the upgrade, and now it won't let me connect using wifi or ethernet. I've tried adding the b43 and b43legacy files into…
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Is this a b43 driver problem?

I have 13.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1564 with Broadcom 4312 WiFi card. The wl drivers cause kernel panic on linux-3.8 so I succesfully installed the b43 driver a couple of months ago. Now I have changed ISP and got a new router, and the connection drop…
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Macbook Pro's Broadcom B4322 wifi driver for Ubuntu 16.04

I am setting up a 16.04 installation on an old Macbook pro with a Broadcom B4322 (14e4:432b). As this hasn't worked out of the box I've tried installing other drivers: bcmwl-kernel-source firmware-b43-installer broadcom-sta-common Installing these…
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Cannot Connect to WiFi using Broadcom wireless

Forgive my noob-ignorance, but I tried doing the research before asking here. I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 on an original MacBook Air and I didn't see any networks in the WiFi dropdown even though wireless seems to be on. I don't have a wired…
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Change wl driver to b43?

i managed to install Xubuntu 16.04 on a inspiron 1012. After almost 2 weeks of struggle with the black screen problem i finally got to get it going. My PCI ID is 14e4:4315 Everything is fine, everything works, buuut: When i try to enable monitor…
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Lubuntu wifi doesn't see 5ghz network on b43

I'm on Lubuntu 17.04 and unfortunately I don't see my local 5ghz wifi network. However I have no problem with connecting to 2.4ghz network after installing firmware-b43-installer. Also when I had Ubuntu 17.04 installed it didn't have any problems…
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Problem with broadcom wireless driver on ubuntu 15.10

Yes I realize there are tons of material on the subject no I did not read them all. Now I have gone through good few of the answers and it got me as far as system finding the drivers on its own and trying to install them through Software and updates…
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id 0x4360, rev 0x03 and package 0x01 Analog 12, Type 11 (AC), Revision 1

Attempted all options and ended up with going down the path to firmware-b43-installer. I have a TP-Link Archer T9E AC1900 PCI-E wireless adapter My machine is running: Linux HerculesLinux 4.2.0-29-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 8 16:57:47 UTC 2016…
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Ubuntu 15.10 - No internet connection with Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n Wireless Driver

I've seen many issues with this posted before (usually on earlier versions of Ubuntu). I've followed the extensive guide posted on Broadcom drivers, and all the other "solutions" people have posted (reinstalling Ubuntu if I modified software) and…
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