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Any chance I can get help with broadcom BCM4313 wireless adapter (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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FIXED thanks all, installed Ubuntu which fixed it. Much obliged to all comments :-)

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I may give it up, but just playing with an old laptop and looking at linux for the first real time and of course, the old laptop happens to have this network adapter.. 🤦🏻

(BCM4313 802.11bgn). From the rabbit hole it’s a typical case, laptop tethers to phone fine. Ethernet during Debian 12 install (kde plasma). Detects my wifi but won’t connect (deactivated message).

In theory it should have been as easy as:

HTTPS://wiki.debian.org/wl or https://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211

Has to be the stupidest thing…

configuration: broadcast = yes driver = brcmsmac driverversion = 6.1.0-13-amd64 firmware = 610.812 ip = 172.20.10.5 latency = 0 link = yes multicast = yes wireless = IEEE 802.11

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for your reply :-) -- I just assumed that would be an issue as I go on to complete step 5 and 6 and still the same thing. I can see the wifi network and attempt to join and it never configures. Fun times

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sorry I read that as wl.ko should not be the list. I need to edit my post haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We should tell people to post the relevant lines from the dmesg command, too. It usually tells if a killswitch is set or the module didn't get loaded (properly).

Good luck with your old laptop 😄