Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all. Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. It is often as easy as that: access to drivers. Optionally, you can provide some info for us (about your laptop/hardware) and we can walk you through what to do. Broadcom wireless People often wonder why DD-WRT supports stuff that OpenWrt doesnt. Might need to play around with the network manager (GUI is fine) to get it all up and running. Go to Device Manager (right click on My Computer, choose Manage and then find Device Manager in the left panel), or right click on Start Menu. If you can figure out what WiFi card you have on your laptop, you can figure out the driver and install if via apt from the terminal. Broadcom 802.11ac Wireless PCIE Full Dongle Adapter 1.558.53.1 () Download driver Broadcom 802.11ac Network Adapter / Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter 7.35.317. What you see there won’t match exactly for what you need or see, but it will give you an idea of what you need to get WiFi working. You can connect your laptop directly to your router via an Ethernet cable just for that part. You will need a wired connection to get the driver for your WiFi NIC that’s on your laptop. Once its working I can reboot to this drive and my wireless works. I can wait a few hours and itll mysteriously start working. If I boot to sdc, crunchbacg linux test, and come back to Mint 10 on sda my wireless doesnt work. To get Kismet running you need to get b43-fwcutter installed and not Broadcom STA Linux Driver as they donot support montoring mode. I have a Broadcom 4312 wireless card in my Dell laptop. Here are the following steps how I got it working. You will need a wired connection to your router somehow either way. I got my Broadcom bcm4311 (rev 02) working with Kismet in Ubuntu 9.10 finally. If you get it, might need a reboot to get it working. Honestly can’t remember since I’ve always done it via terminal on my stuff. Once you get connected to the internet via the Ethernet cable (connect it to your router), you can go to Additional Drivers as shown above and there should be something there for WiFi/network.

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