Setting up a wireless connection

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 14:20 +0000, Clint Tinsley wrote:

> I have tried this with Natty 11.04 and have not been able to get my
> older Broadcom 4306 adapter to work (HP/Compaq NX6110) to work. And I
> have tried to get it working with various flavors of 11.04 (LinuxMint,
> Artistx).  Tried the Debian install approach, nota.  Actually broke
> Artistx Networking (no connection, wireless or wired) trying to fix
> this.  Worked fine with older versions of Ubuntu and LinuxMint.
> 
> I can plug in modern USB N adapters, connects immediately, no
> problems.  So that is my work-around for the moment.
> 
> Any thoughts on this.
> 
> Clint

Here's something we've mucked with on the IRC channels with the same
basic situation.

1.) Install "backports" for 11.04
2.) edit and comment out the "bcm43xx" in
the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf - and if there is a bcm**.conf,
rename it to *.conf.bak
3.) reboot the machine
3.a) see if the old bmc43xx driver has loaded by testing your wireless
network. If it works, well, hey!
3.b) run "jockey-gtk" and see if the Broadcom driver shows up - if so,
activate it and test your wireless.

Hey, if that works, well, Bob's yer uncle. If not, then it's time to dig
a tad bit deeper.

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