[ale] bcm4318 keeps forgetting

Barlow, Jim D jim.d.barlow at intel.com
Tue Jun 17 18:03:06 EDT 2014


> I setup my 80 year old uncle with Linux last week, he loves it! It suspends & restores in just a few seconds, and chrome home page is his email.

> The only problem is his wireless card, the Broadcom 4318. It keeps losing it, then not going online. I showed him how to open a terminal, sudo su, modprobe > b43, and then it goes online. Why doesn't it keep that, am I missing a step??

Is this on an Ubuntu or derivative?   I had problems like this with Ubuntu and Linuxmint on two different friends laptops.   Updates would clobber the 43xx configuration too.   It was just easier for me to put them on Fedora, and cinnamon desktop.   Then (wireless) things stay fixed.   I know that's the easy way out...

- Jim



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