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Comment 37 for bug 987364

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glidester (glidester) wrote : Re: Broadcom wireless not working on 12.04 Precise

Just thought I'd chip in.

I have a samsung R780 laptop with a Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)

Tried all sorts to get it working, removing bcmwl-kernel-source and installling b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43-lpphy-installer packages but still could not connect to my secured wireless network (just kept asking for the password).

Then I read the dupe bug of this one https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/broadcom-sta/+bug/990222 and comment 21 from emptythevoid held the answer.

I enabled thre 3rd party repositories in synaptic and then i was able to install the restricted broadcom driver (previously it had just given me the jockey.log message, not very helpful).

Hope this might help some others.