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Questions tagged [broadcom]

This tag relates to Broadcom, a semiconductor manufacturer, its products, their drivers and firmware. It's advisable to complement this tag with a product type one, such as /modem or /networkcard. Specific product tags like /bcm4322 are possible, but are not popular and may need to be introduced by you.

Broadcom, a PC and telco manufacturer, is present on the market in these areas:

Broadcom has been one of the top contributors to the development of . (See this for details.)

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bluetooth.service running, but bluetoothctl says "org.bluez.Error.NotReady"

my raspberry pi 3 model B, running Arch, has an issue with bluetooth. First of all: Bluetooth has worked flawlessly previously pi-bluetooth from the AUR is up to date bluez and bluez-utils are up to date The system is up to date as well (just ran…
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What to do with a circular dependency between two packages in Fedora?

I am new to Fedora and recently installed Fedora 26 OS. I am trying to connect to wifi using that. I followed the youtube video Broadcom installation and tried to install the Broadcom drivers. I have downloaded the rpm file…
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b43 wireless driver error

I just installed Arch, and I noticed that my wifi range is very poor. I have to be about 10 feet away from the router for it to work. I also noticed that when I boot, I get this message: Support for cores revisions 0x17 and 0x18 disabled by module…
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"nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found" when starting hostapd

I have been trying to get my Ubuntu 11.10 laptop to make an access point to connect my blackberry playbook . hostapd gave error Configuration file: ./hostapd-minimal.conf nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found nl80211 driver…
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How to install Broadcom BCM4360 on debian on Macbook pro

I'm trying to install the wireless drivers because my macbook pro does not have a ethernet port, then I mount the 3 debian isos like local repositories to install the almost all of dependeces. So, what I tryed to do to install the broadcam…
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Unable to connect to a wifi network with an SSID containing diacritics

My current WiFi network (and I'm writing this with the help of Windows -.- ) has a diacritic in its SSID: "ö". If changing the SSID is not an option, how to connect to such a network? This does not work with Ubuntu 12.04 or Android 2.3.6 or Android…
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How can I get the Bluetooth working on my Lenovo Yoga 3?

I have a Lenovo Yoga 3 that apparently has a new Broadcom Bluetooth device. The bluetooth is detected at boot and when I try to pair a something in gnome, I can see a list of devices but none of them pair. How can I get this device to…
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Understanding Broadcom setup and kernel files

I often install Linux distros form live usb/CDs. For that I would like to be able to setup my wireless without any internet connexion. I have a Broadcom chipset : $ lspci -k 04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n I…
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Wifi broadcom 4313 with proprietary driver (Ubuntu) randomly stops connecting to wireless networks

I have a laptop with Broadcom 4313 wireless module, using Ubuntu 13.10 and Windows 7 as OS When reconnecting to network or when waking laptop from suspend/rebooting it sometimes cannot connect to any wireless network. Disable/re-enable network…
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WiFi not working with Broadcom 43ba driver

I've installed Debian Jessie to dual-boot on a Macbook Pro 12,1. So far, I haven't been able to set up my WiFi drivers correctly. I've followed the instructions here in this way: Found my chipset using the table on the documentation…
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How does bcma relate to brcmsmac?

I am trying to solve some issues with my wireless connection and trying to learn something on the way. From here and here I got to know two different ways to know my wireless driver. Thing is, I get two different results: The first method, sudo lshw…
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Multiple USB wireless devices?

I have a broadcom wireless card in my laptop and as far as I know, it acts as an USB device. I also have one USB stick wireless device (TL-WN422G - uses ath9k_htc driver) which I want to use at the same time as the first (Broadcom) device. The…
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Debian: Unable to activate wifi on HP Pavilion Dm1-4055sg (with Broadcom BCM4313)

I just installed Debian Wheezy stable. I am now facing the problem, that I am not able to activate the WiFi. I use a HP-Pavilion DM1 notebook with a button (F12 and wlan button) to activate the WiFi. However pressing it does not cause any…
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Broadcom Wireless PCI Card BMC4360 14e4:43a0 cannot get drivers working

I have a problem similar to this: Unable to get Broadcom wireless drivers working on Arch Linux But in my case, loading the broadcom-wl-dkms driver did not work. I am new to this, so maybe the solution is quite simple (hopefully). What I did so…
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Dell XPS 13 9350 wifi dying with Broadcom BCM4350 and 4.8 kernel

Launchpad report: for all those with the same problem, please subscribe to this report I opened in Launchpad so that it can gain some traction. I've been using Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.7 for some time and wifi must mostly fine, except for a few…
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