It appears that activating the Broadcom driver via the driver manager causes the blacklisting to occur.Īfter much poking around I looked a dmesg and found the following: b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 10)ī43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2 (G), Revision 8ī43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2ī43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to and download the correct firmware for this driver version. The first thing I did was to play around with the proprietary driver. OK, the next problem was do get Wi-Fi back. So I tried removing the black listed module as was suggested in the above post: > sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/nfĪnd the a reboot. The first problem was to get Ethernet going.
#Mint firmware b43 installer bcm4360 install#
The hardware was detected so it had to be a driver issue. With Fedora 10 and above, you should install wget and the b43-fwcutter tool (which will extract firmware from the Windows driver): 1 su - 2 yum install b43-fwcutter wget Next use the instructions here, skipping b43-fwcutter installation part. Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX driver: b44Ĭard-2: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN driver: b43-pci-bridge Not good at all ?Ī bit of research starting from here showed that I had to start with the following: > inxi -N I also installed the proprietary Broadcom STA wireless driver via the driver manager:Īfter the reboot I had then had two problems – no Ethernet and no Wi-Fi. The first thing to do was to do an update of Mint and after several minutes this all worked nicely. lspci -vnn grep Network 06:00.0 Network controller 0280: Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802. I’ve installed Mint on a few machines without issue, so this was a first. I installed firmware-b43-installer, b43 was listed in the lsmod, but I am still was not be able to see any wlan in iwconfig. A small saga began when I took an old laptop and installed Mint 17.1 Cinnamon.