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Debian - Broadcom

To get firmware Broadcom Bluetooth and wifi card.

Try:

sudo apt install broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-dkms broadcom-sta-source

NOTE: Needs to be KERNEL 4.19+headers.

Then reboot.


Check wifi

iwconfig

returns:

lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.

Check the existing PCI card

lspci -vnn | grep Network

returns:

Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] 

Then try

lspci -nn -d 14e4:

returns:

Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4320] (rev 03)

NOTE: There are dozens of Broadcom wireless cards.

The key to finding the correct driver for any network card is what is known as the PCI ID (PCI.ID).

  • The PCI.ID in this example is 14e4:4320.
  • The revision is 03.

Broadcom Wireless Table (Ubuntu)

Determine the firmware and drivers to install from the following list:

PCI.ID              18.04 LTS                        20.04+
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
14e4:0576           Special Case #1                   UNKNOWN      
14e4:165f           UNKNOWN                           UNKNOWN
14e4:1713           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4301           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4306           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4306 rev 02    firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4306 rev 03    firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4307           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4311           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4311 rev 01    firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4312           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4313           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware              
14e4:4315           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4315 rev 01    firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware
14e4:4318           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware               
14e4:4318 rev 02    firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware               
14e4:4319           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware              
14e4:4320 rev 02    firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware              
14e4:4320 rev 03    firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware           
14e4:4321           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware  
14e4:4324           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware       
14e4:4325           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4328           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware
14e4:4328 rev 03    bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source      
14e4:4329           bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source        
14e4:432a           bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source        
14e4:432b           bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source        
14e4:432c           bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source        
14e4:432d           bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source       
14e4:4331           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware          
14e4:4335           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4350           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware  
14e4:4353           Special Case #1                   UNKNOWN        
14e4:4353 rev 01    Special Case #1                   UNKNOWN                 
14e4:4357           Special Case #1                   UNKNOWN        
14e4:4358           bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source
14e4:4359           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware       
14e4:4360           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware    
14e4:4365           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
14e4:4365 rev 01    bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source      
14e4:43a0           bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source
14e4:43ae rev 02    UNKNOWN                           UNKNOWN     
14e4:43b1           bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source        
14e4:43b1 rev 03    bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source              
14e4:43c3 rev 04    UNKNOWN                           firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware / Special Case #2                     
14e4:4727           bcmwl-kernel-source               bcmwl-kernel-source        
14e4:4727 rev 01    Special Case #1                   Special Case #1        
14e4:a962           firmware-b43-installer            firmware-b43-installer / linux-firmware      
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Install firmware and driver

sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer
sudo apt install linux-firmware
sudo reboot

References

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

NOTE: There you can see that Broadcom STA driver should work with BCM4313 (:BCM4311, BCM4312, BCM4313, BCM4321, BCM4322, BCM43224, BCM43225 ).

https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers

debian/broadcom.txt · Last modified: 2021/01/10 01:15 by peter

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