Lambdacurry

Using BCM43142 (Vostro 2420, XPS, etc.) in Linux Mint or Ubuntu


So the BCM43142 chipset is supported by Dell, but I dont think they have merged their changes upstream. The official deb available from Broadcom is outdated.

To use the newer one, download the deb from here - http://jas.gemnetworks.com/wireless-bcm43142/. Also run “sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms” and then install the deb package and reboot.

Wifi should work fine - I tested with a Vostro 2420 on Linux Mint 14 (IMHO much better than Ubuntu)


Lambdacurry

Using BCM43142 (Vostro 2420, XPS, etc.) in Linux Mint or Ubuntu

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November 27, 2012

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