Brodcom, i wish you GPL your code.

Dell I hope you switch to intel chipsets for your n series (linux based) laptops.

Thanks!!!

Well, those commands are available from root, but not (by default) from a user account. So you’ll need a root shell to run them in.

OTOH, those commands are used mostly for diagnostics. I’d try the one-click install on this web page first. With that done, fire up network manager. You should see networks being found after a short time. I tend to turn on notifications for “New Wireless Network Found” and “Network Disabled” when I’m diagnosing things. If I know there are networks around and there’s nothing being found, something’s missing.

If you don’t see wireless activity after installing with the one-click above and rebooting, you probably need the Broadcom firmware / driver. That goes in pretty clean as a package install. I don’t recall the step by step at the moment.

Hope this helps.

my bash shell has never heard of iwconfig, ipconfig, or ifconfig. It’s also never heard of ‘make’ or ‘modprobe’. What is going on here? None of the solutions on the web are doing a thing for this laptop.

I also put the command modprobe wl in my /etc/init.d/boot.local file. This ensures my wireless card is detected on startup.