Have you tried (I am assuming you are using Debian) this download: Debian with NonFree Drivers . It may have the drivers included for your broadcom card.

When I dabbled with Debian (I use Mint now, I just like all my stuffs to work out of the box) I used this Wiki on Debian and got off to a good start.

Then when my laptop with broadcom died, I only get ones with Intel wireless...

like the others have said it is a legal thing, so to keep from being sued they have set it up as such the way it is set up to get them installed with out having to worry about getting sued. get it?

This topic is all over the internet and on messages boards as to why. One should just feel lucky that at least they are able to get them so they can be installed, else a lot of people would have to be without WIFI or having to buy new wifi hardware.

Hi...

I'll need the entire results from the command I gave in my last post. Also, would you also throw in...

If this is a laptop, please include:

Thanks!

The card the OP has is supported by the broadcom-sta-dkms package. Obviously, it would require enabling non-free and being online to install, or preparing a USB drive with all the requisite packages on (I actually do this as my machine I had with that card didn't have ethernet at all) to install from. It's a PITA, but I've found it actually works REALLY well with the newer (read - 4.0+) kernel in Debian. It was OK with 3.16 if a bit flaky with losing connections, but was much more reliable with the newer 4.3 & now 4.4 kernels from backports before I put Windows 10 back on to sell that laptop.

Correct, I was just wanting to get as accurate picture as possible as to what might being going on.

@JohnWWiley: Do I have the correct assumption your adapter is not working?

Regards...

MX-15 is running very nicely, like a high mileage Avalon (in line with my most optimistic expectations for a 9 yo Gateway). Thank you for the recommendation.

I'll appreciate it if you don't "get-it" or "got-it" me again, please. I understand the legal and licensing situation quite well. But perhaps I'm being too nuanced for you. My discomfiture is with the hypocrisy of an obvious end-run around the issue(s) and the entrenched mentalities involved, not to mention the higher philosophical discussion around intellectual property to begin with, and whether "laws" should even be a thread in the cloth. Get it?

This is off-topic, but still germane. If the moderators here do any moderating, please move it as you see appropriate.

To anyone: If I met you at a seminar or symposium or conference, or in a class, for the first time, there's a certain respectful tome I would strike. While (and since) certain cues simply don't come to the screen, if you wouldn't use the words in person, I'd humbly submit you shouldn't type them. "Keyboard warriors.. ".