[SOLVED] broadcom WiFi works during live DVD and live CD

[isadora]

curious to know why broadcom wifi lets you connect while running the live DVD and the live CD but soon as you install it to the hard drive and the install is complete you no longer have wifi anymore?? it worked on mageia 2 when i installed it also..

[sander85]

What broadcom device do you have? What happens if you open MCC -> Hardware -> Browse and configure hardware - does it want to install any broadcom related packages?
What DE are you using? Gnome? KDE? Something else?

[inhaLekush]

hello thank you for the reply and help...it's a Broadcom BCM 43XX and im using KDE..usually when i go to MCC -> Hardware -> Browse that usually works but it only ask for 1 package now but after it installs and i reboot it still has no wifi it used to grab like 2 packages or something wifi-tools and broadcom-wl or something like that....

[doktor5000]

What package did it install?

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rpm -qa |grep broadcom

Also:

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lspcidrake -v

copy the broadcom related line.

[doktor5000]

@sander: Please use code tags next time

[inhaLekush]

What package did it install?

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rpm -qa |grep broadcom

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lspcidrake -v

copy the broadcom related line.

still can't get it to work..

rpm -qa |grep broadcom
broadcom-ssb-config-1-3.mga3
^ that's what it asked to install when i went into hardware...

lspcidrake -v
ssb : Broadcom Corporation|BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:14e4 device:4311 subv:1028 subd:0007) (rev: 01)

[inhaLekush]

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6111 doe's what's reported here...

[doktor5000]

Ẁhat do you mean exactly by your last comment?

[inhaLekush]

even though its a bug from mageia 2 after you go into hardware and it ask to install broadcom-ssb-config ..then you go into network manager it doe's this (as reported in the bug)..
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open the Network Manager and the system install the required software (dkms, etc)
2.The network manager reports:
3.Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver)

[inhaLekush]

i got it working with live cd i unchecked "remove unused hardware" clicked advance to see exactly what files it wanted to remove and it was removing files needed for broadcom..thank you all for helping me out...