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Need some help getting the device to work. I have tried the solutions in the forum and some instructions from mandriva wiki, but it never connects. Mageia 1 detects and presents an option to select the device in control center, sets it up, but I never get any connection. I know the broadcom story, and I have a second usb wireless dongle working, but it is not very nice on a small laptop. As a former Mandrake and Mandriva user, I have converted to Mageia, and will not give up because of this issue.

PC: Dell Vostro V13
Mageia 1
2.6.38.8-desktop586-6.mga
lspci:
09:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

Also you already read the other solutions in the forums, could you also provide necessary information?
Which driver is used currently, which firmware did you install where, what does dmesg say about the adapter and what changes have you already made to get it to work?

Hello,
I think I have made a mess of various solutions/drivers. I will use my working wireless usb dongle, and wait to see when the next release of Mageia somes out. Thanks!

Maybe something is wrong in the Mageia contro panel/network setup, as I did not get any connection in cd-live-mode with my Realtek rtl8187b, a Linux certified wifi device (it works with all distros)?

I finally got my Broadcom Wireless BCM4312 working.

The Mageia b43-fwcutter did not work, and I compiled b43-fwcutter myself. Then it worked

Uninstall b43-fwcutter e.g. urpme b43-fwcutter or from add/remove software (select all from the list at the upper left)

Compile b43-fwcutter:
wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-015
make
su
make install

Install Broadcom:
export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broa ... el.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mipsel.tar.bz2
su
b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3/driver/wl_apsta/wl_prebuilt.o

Very nice you finally got it to work truls.
And thanks for your clear workaround.

Probably someone else could be interested into this as well somewhere in future.
So, i would ask you, can we copy this information into the MAQeia for Wireless?

isadora wrote:Probably someone else could be interested into this as well somewhere in future.
So, i would ask you, can we copy this information into the MAQeia for Wireless?

Well, any content is better than no MAQeia at all no?
This is already on my list for quite some time, but did not find enough spare time to do it yet
Feel free to create the MAQeia for Wireless with this information, i'll try to add necessary stuff then.

That's ok. Forgot to mention one must first uninstall b43-fwcutter aka urpme b3-fwcutter.

Thank you very much truls on behalf of all at Mageia's.