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Install Broadcom (B43) wireless driver in Linux
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install-b43.sh
#!/bin/bash
#http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
su -
yum install b43-fwcutter wget # apt-get or whatever your package manager is
export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
echo 'modprobe b43' > /etc/sysconfig/modules/b43.modules
chmod +x /etc/sysconfig/modules/b43.modules
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xtealer commented May 21, 2019

nice it works pretty well, couldn't find another method that actually worked until this :/

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