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Broadcom BCM4306 Wireless card + Linux Mint 13

Posted by rion on May 27, 2012

Next month I will be in New York for a few days (Vacation). While I want to take a laptop with me I'd rather not take either of my development machines in case something 'bad' happens (either on the flight or while sightseeing).

My Brother in Law had an old Dell Latitude D600 he wasn't using so I bought it and set about installing linux on it. After some issue with various editions of Ubuntu (12.04 32-bit edition doesn't even install) I settled on Linux Mint 13. Unfortunately the wireless card wasn't supported right out of the box... Here's what I had to do to get it working.

Notes

 

Identify the Broadcom chip in your Dell D600

  • If you are in Linux, run this command to see what Broadcom Network cards you have on your system:

    lspci | grep Broadcom

    Sample output from my system:
    lspciOutput.png
    From this image you can see that I have a BCM4306 802.11a/b/g (rev 02) card

  • If you are in Windows you can get a more useful name from Device Manager:
    TrueMobile 1400 WLAN

    TrueMobile1400.PNG

 

Download & Extract the appropriate Broadcom driver from Dell's website

  • Go to the Dell Latitude D600 Drivers page (dell.com/support) and pull down the driver appropriate to your card. In my case I pulled down R143355.EXE (32bit XP) for the TrueMobile 1400
    DellDriverDownloadScreen.png

  •  Right-click on the EXE and select Extract Here to get at the inf/sys files
    ExtractDriver.png
     
  • You can find the Driver file under the DRIVER folder:
    LocationOfInfSysFiles.png

 

Install the Broadcom Driver using ndiswrapper GUI

  • Pull up the ndiswrapper GUI by clicking Menu and typing ndis
    ndiswrapperGUI.png 
    (You will be asked to authenticate in order to run this)
     
  • Click the Install New Driver button and Browse to the INF file you just downloaded
  • When activating the driver you may see an error that says:

    FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found


    And when you run an ndiswrapper -l it looks like it is installed correctly:
    ndiswrapperDashLOutput.png
    bcmwl5 : driver installed
    device (14E4:4324) present (alternate driver: ssb)

  • If that is the case, pull up the Synaptic Package Manager and install ndiswrapper-dkms
    ndiswrapper-dkms.png

  • After ndiswrapper-dkms has been installed, reboot your laptop
  • At this point the WiFi Applet in the 'start bar' should be working correctly:
    WirelessAppletWorking.png

I was able to connect to my local wifi network. In fact I am writing this from the D600! Hopefully this works as well for you.

Comments:

Bravo and thanks to you for sorting this and posting this excellent fix -- that I was able to use today to get wifi with my cheapo Broadcom 4306 on an old Fujitsu laptop I have resurrected with an install of Mint 13 . Googled for hours before stumbling upon your blog and giving your clear instructions a go. Excellent screenshots helped as well! Up and running, and I am AMAZED. A big thanks, and a wish that you'd had more appreciative comments since last May!
Posted by reddharma on
You're welcome! Glad I could help. 8)
Posted by rion on
Dude, you are a legend! Thanks for the help :) Got a D610 here and thought I was screwed as I'm a Mint Virgin.
 
Posted by reservoirDOG on
You are awesome sir, got it working in less then 5 minutes, thanks heeps my friend!!
Posted by Domonique on
I have followed your steps exactly, and it still doesn't work. My laptopis an HP compaq nx9010, which uses the BCM4306 wireless card. It seems that the system doesn't recognize the newly installed driver. as running sudo lshw -C network gives the following results:
*-network DÉSACTIVÉ //disabled       description: Interface réseau sans fil //wireless network interface       identifiant matériel: 2 //material identifier       nom logique: wlan0 //logic name       numéro de série: 00:90:4b:4f:03:bc //serial numer       fonctionnalités: ethernet physical wireless //functionnalities       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43legacy driverversion=3.2.0-35-generic-pae firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
 
And the last line is the most important, it says that the driver is still b43legacy. Do you have any idea on what I should do? Could I uninstall b43legacy?
 
Posted by lewis82 on
I should add that I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, not Linux Mint (but I don't think it should make a difference).
Posted by lewis82 on
For ndiswrapper on Ubuntu 12.04.1 see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2095736.
Posted by ralphl on
Thanky you for this excellent, clear and helpful instruction!
After working for decades on windows, I recently started first Mint steps (on an still working D600).The first big step has been finding a suitable linux for this laptop (w/o pae).The second step: Finding your wifi install instruction........ took only two days...
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See what your children can show you about love!” It was just the kind of sly provocation that Sean -Cunningham loved.Wearing an easy smile that telegraphed a gregarious personality, Cunningham would become a pioneering horror director in the 1980s with Friday the 13th. But in the summer of 1969, when he met Craven, he had just made the transition from working off Broadway to producing drive-in movies. This first -collaboration—Cunningham produced and directed; Craven helped with the editing—launched careers that would dominate the horror genre in the following decades.Cunningham was charismatic, confident and always hustling. He talked a great game. All he wanted to do was scrape up enough cash to make his movies. He sold Together, which starred Marilyn Chambers, the adult-movie star who eventually gained notoriety in Behind the Green Door, to Hallmark Releasing Group, one of the many small exploitation companies then littering the film landscape, providing a steady stream of smut and brutality to grind-house theaters. The crucial insight of their marketers was that you could get away with anything if you did it in the name of art. They booked Together in shopping malls and suburban complexes. Free screenings were held for local police and civic groups. It opened in August 1971 and ran for 31 weeks at the Rialto Theater in New York. By February of the next year, Together had proved that porn could go mainstream, setting the stage for the blockbuster success of Deep Throat. -Cunningham’s goal was to do the same thing with horror, which at the time was considered by many cultural critics to be barely more reputable than pornography.Seeing some talent in the college professor who helped in the editing room, -Cunningham asked Craven to direct the next project. [url=http://bagsoutletsonlines.com/]coach factory outlet online free shipping[/url] Craven told him he had hardly seen a horror movie, let alone knew how to direct one. “You were raised fundamentalist,” Cunningham assured him. “Use it!”What Craven came up with became one of the most influential horror movies of all time, The Last House on the Left. It opened when the film industry was changing. Rules about obscenity and violence were in flux. The “midnight movie” was reaching a young audience that embraced underground and cult films. The flesh-eating zombie and the remote serial killer emerged as the new dominant movie monsters, the vampire and werewolf of their day. In the Vietnam era, a new emphasis on realism took hold [url=http://bagsoutletsonlines.com/]coach factory outlet online[/url] in the genre long dominated by escapist fantasy, and movies became more graphic.This cultural shift took place in the same transitional period when some of the most ambitious Hollywood movies were being made. Many of the adventurous mainstream directors who belong to what is known as the New Hollywood got their start in horror. Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and Peter Bogdanovich refined their craft on low-budget scares before moving on to what most people in the movie business consider their more mature work. At the same time, another class of directors more committed to the genre was getting started. George Romero, David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper and Wes Craven reinvented the conventions of the horror film outside of Hollywood, while William Friedkin, Brian De Palma and Roman Polanski smuggled more prestige horror productions into the studio system. Never in the history of the movies had so much talent been put to work frightening audiences.Not only did the movies during this period address the same questions, but their answers had enough in common that a cohesive form of the genre developed by the end of the 1970s, when Ron -Rosenbaum described this school of scary movies in Harper’s magazine. He called it the “New Horror.” Horror, he argued, “seems ready to supplant sex and violence in the hierarchy of mass sensation-seeking.” The popular narrative about the rise of the mainstream studio directors of the New Hollywood is that through the strength of their ideas they defied the bottom line to make something personal. The success of New Horror also depends on the personal visions of a few artists, but the best films were not merely victories by art in its endless battle against commerce. The most formative horror movies, such as The Last House on the Left, were made under tight constraints. Film shoots were quick and budgets shoestring. Auteur analysis tells only part of the story, since the films were also products of compromise and dispute, stitching together spare parts while tweaking old conventions.?Wes Craven felt the forbidden in society needed to be explored, the sins of the father exposed. Cunningham wanted to see lots of blood—up to a point. Their clashing personalities were part of what made Last Housesuch a strange mongrel: a mix of canny marketing and confrontational art, exploitation and political statement.The tension between the sadistic and the masochistic appeals of the movie was reflected in the divide between Cunningham and Craven. The producer saw Last House as an escape, an outlet for some dormant pain. But Craven, raised in an evangelical household, had a much deeper feel for the allure of self-sacrifice, of seeing abuse and brutality as transcendent. When people go to church, they are not merely escaping pain. They are brave enough to confront it, and that gives them a certain feeling of triumph. The trick was to find scares that could trigger a response from a secular [url=http://bagsoutletsonlines.com/]coach factory online[/url] audience looking for the experience of masochism, forcing them to confront the demons not only on-screen but also in themselves. The Last House on the Left challenged one of the most basic assumptions about the relationship between the audience and the filmmaker—namely, that people go to movies to enjoy themselves.The story is a spin on Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, hardly the usual source material for exploitation films. No director connoted European artistic seriousness as much as Bergman. Made only three years after his classic The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring is based on a medieval ballad about a virginal girl abducted in the woods on her way to church. She is raped and killed by three goatherds after her half sister invokes a pagan curse. Craven begins with the same story, but instead of going to church, the young girls head to a kind of secular church for young hipsters, a rock concert in the East Village. The band performing is called Bloodlust. Craven ups the ante on the violence by making the film less about assault than about a kind of beastly humiliation.The killers don’t just rape the girl. They make her friend watch. Last House focuses on the faces of the victims with an unbearable realism. The killings in this film are not suspenseful or elegantly shot. They are amateurish, designed to maximize the most horrible primal fears. At one point, Krug, the gang leader, forces his victim to pee on herself. The next year a little girl does the same thing in The Exorcist, a movie that would reach (and upset) far more people. “I had sensed that it was one of the most humiliating things that happen to people,” Craven says. “There’s a really deep shame in peeing on yourself. To have someone make you do that, I knew it would be chilling, and when you do something like that, you are announcing, ‘This is not your parents’ Pontiac. This is about nastiness on a very deep level.’?”Cunningham says the in-your-face violence was a reaction to movies like Straw Dogs and Dirty Harry that use bloodshed to titillate. Precisely shot storms of bullets and blood are romantically choreographed to reveal a minimum of suffering. Not only are murders clean and quick, but they are accompanied by a variety of moral loopholes. Dustin Hoffman fights back against invaders, but he is standing up for his wife; Clint Eastwood’s vigilantism is at the expense of criminals.Craven, by contrast, claims the graphic murders were a response to the media’s too delicate treatment of the [url=http://coachfactoryoutlet2w.webs.com/]coach factory online outlet[/url] Vietnam war. Because of the radicalism of the counterculture of the time, such themes were unavoidable. The Virgin Spring is a meditative movie, somber and discreet and littered with religious imagery. The father, yawning while his wife prays, seems barely interested in Christian religion. When he learns of the murder of his daughter, he questions his faith. He is redeemed in the final scene when he returns to the place of the original crime and promises to build a church. When a spring bubbles up over the dead girl, we witness Christian redemption. 12Next
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The Imbiber: Barchetypes
As you've probably gathered by now, I go to a lot of bars. It's a by-product of being a member in good standing of the international boozing press. Over the years, certain similarities have emerged between these bars. Upon noticing this I immediately realized further research was in order. Several weeks later I remembered what the similarities were again. And the process started all over again. It's like the circle of life, only drunker. And now, after two full decades of remembering to try to figure it out, I have done it. I have determined that there are precisely 10 kinds of bar in the world. I call them the Barchetypes. And to give the last 20 years of my drinking some modicum of meaning, I'm going to tell them you about them.Notes Toward An Ontological Exploration of The Ten Barchetypes and the Flora and Fauna Pertaining Thereunto1. 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Depending on the frequency of said karaoke night, you may actually want to consider downgrading this place's rating from a Pub to a Plastic Bar (see below).2. The Plastic BarMy friends and I sometimes call these Karl Rove bars. Which is to say, The Plastic Bar was born without a soul. You might know them as fern bars, or yuppie bars or “that place with the frozen daiquiri machine.” But while they may not have authenticity on their side, they do have booze, so let's not get too hung up on technicalities. Treat your plastic bar the same way you'd treat a museum exhibit. Speak softly, don't touch anything and leave as quickly as possible. You may have sex with things you find inside the plastic bar, but only once.3. The High Concept BarThese are built upon a central idea that is sometimes clever, but more often tiresome once the novelty has worn off (this process usually takes about a week). These typically sprout up in major metropolitan areas like New York, LA and Paris where there's an ample supply of either a) tourists looking for expensive thrills or b) arrogant twits who believe they're more sophisticated than the average beer-swilling Philistine and feel the need to prove it by embracing the latest in nightlife novelties. For example, I was once dragged by a publicist to the Ice Kube Bar in Paris where, for somewhere in the neighborhood of75dollars(luckily I wasn't paying), I got to dress up like an arctic explorer and spend 20 minutes doing Grey Goose shooters inside a bleak frozen chamber made entirely of ice (as evidenced by the pic on the right). The publicist maintained that freezing my dick off just to catch a buzz was an “authentic experience like no other.” Funny, it seemed an awful lot like another highly authentic experience called “homeless in winter,” only a hell of a lot more expensive.I will admit that there are a few high-concept bars that are just too awesome and original to be dismissed. For instance, the Skeleton Bar in Gruyère, Switzerland (yes, where the cheese comes from) is a magnificent, otherworldly boneyard designed by HR Giger, the guy who won an Oscar for production design on “Alien” and also conceived the highly controversial Dead Kennedy's album cover, “Frankenchrist.” That place is genius. But for every Skeleton Bar, there are ten Rodeo Bars and ten Waikiki Wallys. Bottom line is, when in doubt, stay the fuck away.4. The Strip ClubAh, where to begin? Mandatory two-drink minimums for watered down cocktails in plastic shot-glasses at 15 dollarsa pop. 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Because the last thing you want when you're trying to enjoy a relaxing drink is either smug superiority from the bartender or a member of the waitstaff insisting on telling you about the fair-trade origin of the drink's agave syrup. Shut the hell up and make with the alcohol fetching. And turn off the fucking lounge music. Oh and a comfortable chair would be nice. I should reiterate that many of these places are wonderful and employ some of my favorite people in the world. 12Next
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