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Broadcom 54g MaxPerformance 802.11g Driver

todd23

Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:01:12 pm

I have ZORIN 9 ULTIMATE - 32 BIT on my Compaq Presariro M2000 Laptop installed great only problem it did not install a driver for mt Broadcom 54g MaxPerformance 802.11g wireless card I did a complete update after the install and it restarted but again the button you push to turn on the wireless did not light when i pushed it
it only saw the wired line in from my router.
Do you have any idea what i can do where i can get a driver for it or will this card not work with ZORIN 9

this is my first post I hope i did it right as i have a head injury so sometime i can not say or type it with out erros
Thank you for thank you for your patience and understanding

Todd

Swarfendor437

Wed Feb 03, 2016 1:09:14 pm

Hi, to establish the exact model, please post back the results of the following command from a terminal window. (Ctrl+ Alt+ T)

Code:
lspci

todd23

Wed Feb 03, 2016 10:55:09 pm

shows the following
sorry for delay

todd@todd-Presario-M2000-EC219UA-ABA:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS480/RS482/RS485 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RC4xx/RS4xx PCI Bridge [int gfx]
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 IDE Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB4x0 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] IXP SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS480M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200]
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)
05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
05:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
todd@todd-Presario-M2000-EC219UA-ABA:~$

madvinegar

Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:55:41 am

Can you please also post the results of the following terminal commands:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
sudo lshw -c network
sudo rfkill list all

todd23

Thu Feb 04, 2016 9:35:53 pm

I decide to put it back to windows XP and when i did the card starting working
so i guess it will be a windows machine I even went to system tools and update drivers it saw the card but when installing the driver for it had a error
oh will
my other 80 laptops will be Zorin
Thank you I guess the Compaq M2000 are a picky machine
Thank you again for trying

Todd

Swarfendor437

Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:04:44 pm

Please follow madvinegar's instructions - if anyone can get wireless working it is madvinegar! ;) :D