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On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Roland Tarver <roland.tarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Dan Dart <dandart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> lo no wireless extensions. >>> >>> eth0 no wireless extensions. >>> >>> pan0 no wireless extensions. >> >> Firmware. Always was for me. >> Make sure your bcm43xx firmware is located in /lib/firmware. >> Debian, unlike Ubuntu, comes with no firmware for wireless cards. > > Thanks for your reply Dan. In the /lib/firmware/b43 directory there > are 32 files all with a .fw suffix. I guess this is correct? > > Roly :-) > >> >> -- >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq >> > Thanks to the instructions below, this problem is now solved. woop! They make use of a closed source driver provided by broadcom (rather than the b43 driver), but at least it works :-) http://wiki.debian.org/wl Thanks for the help. Roly. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq