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Old 07-21-2014, 10:11 PM   #1
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USB Wireless


I have a Linksys AE2500( Broadcom BCM43236 chip) and no linux distro works thus far with it....I installed Windows Vista drivers VIA wireless driver installer ifn or what ever file it is.....It shows driver installed and device is present but still no wifi this is my only way to connect to the net so any way t get this to work?
 
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I'd go back to linux broadcom drivers. They are out there but not sure any distro had it by default.

Tell us what distro you are using and maybe we can find a guide.

The very last way I'd try would be to use windows drivers with ndiswrapper.
 
Old 07-22-2014, 08:53 PM   #3
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Cant find one---been searching for past few days- only found one for BCM43236B Chip
 
  


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