I finally figured out an easy way to make Wi-Fi working nicely on Laptops with different Broadcomm chips tested that do not work using the wl driver provided in none-free: BCM4311, BCM4318 (airforce-one) Install your system, but disable none-free medium (to prevent the installation of the wl driver) after re-booting and logging in the first time, shut down the box. Insert the live-DVD of same architecture boot the system using the live DVD. Check if your Wi-Fi works.
Check as root which driver is loaded: lsmod If you find the b43 and brcm, copy the folders /lib/firmware/b43 and /lib/firmware/brcm from the live- DVD to your hard drive Add line "alias wlan0 b43 to /etc/modprobe.d/01_mga-config.conf If you reboot, you should now be able to turn on the Wi-Fi light (and to connect.) You now also need to reconfigure the shorewall, otherwise you cannot transmit any date. Add the lien to your /etc/shorewall/interfaces: net wlan0 detect Just below the already existing line net eth0 detect -- Best regards Thomas Spuhler
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