On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 00:04 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:

> Perhaps posting the results of lspci, dmidecode and the relevent
> network tool (similar to ethtool  for wired connection) will help
> others narrow down to the cause of problem.
> 

Yes, 'sudo lspci -v' will give us more details about the wireless device
and the driver currently loaded in your system.

I have samsung with Broadcom BCM4313 wireless device and I'm using
kernel 3.2.0. Even after installing 'broadcom-sta-*' package (this is
the package which will install 'wl' proprietary driver), wireless didn't
come up. Here is what I did to fix the issue,

$ sudo su
# cat >/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf <<EOF
> blacklist ssb
> blacklist b43
> blacklist brcmsmac
> blacklist bcma
EOF
#

Most probably the kernel would have loaded 'b43' driver which is not
working with latest Broadcom wireless devices. I hope yours is also
Broadcom device. If not, this mail is not relative to the issue you are
facing.

Thanks,
Mohan R

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