Firmware missing

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sun Sep 9 23:04:28 EDT 2012


On 09/09/2012 09:30 PM, derrick wrote:
> How do I get wireless internet on my laptop using Linux OS?? Help??! Thank you

I would start by stating what wireless device you have (lspci -nn), and what 
error you get in dmesg.

If you have a Broadcom device with PCI ID 14e4:xxxx and the firmware missing, 
you could look at 
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Device_firmware_installation.


Larry




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