<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Thanks Fred. I did that for 12.04 and had already tried it this time on 14.04. I've just tried it again - zilch! If I get finished fixing the shed roof, I'll try to make time tomorrow or Tuesday to fit the "new" secondhand Intel mini-pci board I've just bought. I just don't have time to bother with Broadcom.<br><br></div>Regards,<br><br></div>David<br><br></div>PS I still have the black rectangle on my desktop. No one seems to have any idea how to deal with that...<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 September 2014 12:21, Fred Roller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fredroller66@gmail.com" target="_blank">fredroller66@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi David,<br>
I know I am coming in on the tail end of this but thought it
worth the mention for later try and anyone else working with a
broadcom 4311 series card... before my mainboard roached I had
similar difficulties getting it to run.. final solution was very
simple in the end and worked everytime so might be worth trying:<br>
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#from: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1997880" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1997880</a><br>
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree<br>
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HIH,<br>
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On 09/20/2014 12:34 PM, David Walland wrote:<br>
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<div>I have been running Xubuntu 12.04 successfully
for nearly a year on my old Dell Latitude D620.
This sports 2 GB memory and a 100GB SSD. Recently
I decided to update to 14.04. Everything went
well and for some weeks the machine and 14.04 have
behaved impeccably, until I ran a normal set of
updates.<br>
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I have a Broadcom 4311 wifi card on the machine and
had managed to make it work following information
from the Internet on how to do so. After this
update, suddenly the wifi will no longer work and
all of the instructions to sort it in 14.04, I can
find on the internet fail to work, including the
"official" Ubuntu instructions. On startup, just
after starting the machine and before the desktop
comes up it flashes for about 1 second information
which is about the problem (well it says "Broadcom"
but it's gone too quickly for me to read much more).<br>
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How do I hold this screen long enough to read what it
says?<br>
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How do I sort out the driver so it works given that
every set of instructions I've tried have failed?<br>
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Also since the same update I now have a small black
rectangle on my desktop all the time. It wasn't there
before and I can't find any info on the Internet about how
to deal with it. When starting, the desktop loads
correctly until I enter my password to go into my own area
when the black area reappears and is always on top. It's
about 8 mm from the LH edge and about 2.5 cm down from the
screen top.<br>
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Will I have to reset swappiness and the other settings I set
up in 12.04 to speed it up and to protect the SSD? It's
noticeably slower in 14.04.<br>
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I'm a fairly new boy at Linux so please treat me gently and
explain all those esoteric steps which all Linux non-newbies
know and I probably won't - I'm still following instructions
mostly by rote.<br>
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Thanks in anticipation,<br>
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David Walland<br>
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