Enabling support for Broadcom Wireless driver on Debian flavored linux

Enabling support for Broadcom Wireless driver on Debian flavored linux

root@Crunch-Doc:~#lshw -C network

  *-network UNCLAIMED

       description: Network controller

       product: BCM43225 802.11b/g/n

       vendor: Broadcom Corporation

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0

       version: 01

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list

       configuration: latency=0

       resources: memory:b2400000-b2403fff

      

Enabling support for Broadcom Wireless driver on Debian flavored linux

root@Crunch-Doc:~# apt-get update && apt-get install firmware-brcm80211

Hit http://packages.crunchbang.org waldorf Release.gpg

Hit http://packages.crunchbang.org waldorf Release                                     

Hit http://deb.opera.com stable Release.gpg                                            

Hit http://packages.crunchbang.org waldorf/main amd64 Packages                         

Hit http://deb.opera.com stable Release                                       

Hit http://deb.opera.com stable/non-free amd64 Packages                                

Ign http://packages.crunchbang.org waldorf/main Translation-en_IN                      

Ign http://packages.crunchbang.org waldorf/main Translation-en                         

Hit http://http.debian.net wheezy Release.gpg                       

Ign http://deb.opera.com stable/non-free Translation-en_IN          

Ign http://deb.opera.com stable/non-free Translation-en

Hit http://http.debian.net wheezy Release     

Hit http://http.debian.net wheezy/main amd64 Packages

Hit http://http.debian.net wheezy/contrib amd64 Packages                               

Hit http://http.debian.net wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages

Hit http://http.debian.net wheezy/contrib Translation-en

Hit http://http.debian.net wheezy/main Translation-en

Hit http://http.debian.net wheezy/non-free Translation-en

Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg

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Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release

Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages

Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Translation-en

Reading package lists... Done

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree      

Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  firmware-brcm80211

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 55.6 kB of archives.

After this operation, 161 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy/non-free firmware-brcm80211 all 0.36+wheezy.1 [55.6 kB]

Fetched 55.6 kB in 3s (15.0 kB/s)            

Selecting previously unselected package firmware-brcm80211.

(Reading database ... 91504 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking firmware-brcm80211 (from .../firmware-brcm80211_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb) ...

Setting up firmware-brcm80211 (0.36+wheezy.1) ...



root@Crunch-Doc:~# modprobe -r brcm

brcmsmac  brcmutil 



root@Crunch-Doc:~# modprobe -r brcmsmac ; modprobe brcmsmac

Now to confirm, verify the wireless driver detected

root@Crunch-Doc:~# iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.



wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any 

          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=19 dBm  

          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

         

eth0      no wireless extensions.



root@Crunch-Doc:~#

HTH