Wireless NIC Broadcom 4312 (b43) is not being installed

[knopper]

Hi folks,

I've got a problem on my HP6735s: Knoppix 7.0 is not installing an appropriate driver for my wireless NIC (Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY). The complete output of lspci -v is attached. iwconfig say 'no wireless extensions'.

The wireless-NIC-LED ist blue, so the device is activated. I've tried http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx, but no wireless device appears in the Netzwerk-Manager-Applet.

Any links, docs or howtos appreciated. Thanks for you time.

Regards,
Oliver.

Sorry about this, I forgot to install the broadcom-sta-modules package right after updating the kernel to 3.2.4 in the final version. But you can find the packages here (for both 32 and 64 bit this time!):

http://debian-knoppix.alioth.debian..../broadcom-sta/

If you have the debian-knoppix repository in your /etc/apt/sources.list (which should be the case when running Knoppix 7.0.0), you could also (after connecting to the internet via LAN) just type

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install broadcom-sta-modules-3.2.4
and/or
sudo apt-get install broadcom-sta-modules-3.2.4-64

to get the modules downloaded and installed. For activating the module immediately, type

sudo rmmod bcma
sudo modprobe wl

If you run Knoppix 7.0.0 from USB flash with a persistent overlay, the change will be permanent.

I'll make sure that in the upcoming public release, which will most likely contain the new kernel 3.3 already, the driver won't be missing again.

Regards
-Klaus