Broadcom BCM43228... funziona?

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Hello,

  • OpenMandriva Lx version: Rome 24_12

  • Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…): KDE

Buona serata a tutti… un amico mi ha chiesto di convertire un vecchio portatile HP ProBook a linux… naturalmente installo OpenMandriva… purtroppo non riesco ad attivare la scheda Wireless (Broadcom BCM43228) che invece viene vista dal altre distribuzioni provate in live (Debian, PcLinux…). C’è qualche possibilità che questa scheda wireless possa funzionare? Posso ovviamente collegare il pc via cavo per eventuali magheggi… Grazie a chi potrà darmi una mano…

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A friend asked me to convert an old HP ProBook laptop to linux, of course I install OpenMandriva.
Unfortunately I can’t activate the Wireless card (Broadcom BCM43228) which is seen by the other distributions tried in live (Debian, PcLinux…).
Is there any chance that this wireless card can work?
I can of course connect the pc via cable for possible tricks.
Thanks to those who can help me.

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Grazie! :smiley:

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Drivers for supported wireless devices are in the Linux kernel. If a wireless device does not work out of the box then you would need to find and install the driver. Google “Linux Broadcom BCM43228” and see if you can’t find something that works.

Or ask you question at OM-Chat. Or OM-Chat It. The instructions in the wiki are in Italian but the Chat channels are English (mostly).

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BCM43228 is in the list here. It says “yes (3.17+)” so the device on that computer may be older than 3.17. Again I would ask at OM-Chat.

Arch Linux is usually a great source for documentation. This is the Broadcom wireless page. This is a nixCraft page related to Fedora and that device. The nixCraft page shows how to obtain information developers at OM-Chat might need to troubleshoot why that device is not working in OMLx. Mainly the ouput of these commands:

dmesg
dmesg | grep -i b43
sudo lspci -nn -d 14e4:
sudo lspci | grep -i broadcom

Edit: Some older Broadcom devices had licenses that OM will not support. This may be the case here, not sure. If so then the driver has to be user installed. Installing such a driver should not be to difficult once you find the correct driver. But the user will need to save that information on how to install for future use.

Edit: If this really is a supported device than devs at OM-Chat may be able to tell you if you need to modprobe a specific module or blacklist a specific module. Either of those would be an easy fix.