Broadcom BCM4328 wifi on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty


May 12th, 2009

Ubuntu now includes support for this wireless chip in its ‘Restricted Driver Manager’. Sadly the activation silently fails on a fresh install of Ubuntu. The solution? Install b43-fwcutter. Then disable and re-enable the driver in Ubuntu’s Restricted Driver Manager and it will work after a restart.

Comments (11)

11 Responses to “Broadcom BCM4328 wifi on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty”

  1. Fantomius on July 15, 2009 3:50 am

    Thanks… a lot… finally someone who write a simple solution :)
    It works!

  2. Vinicius on July 23, 2009 4:56 am

    Wow!! Thanks a lot, a elegant and simple solution for a BIG problem!

  3. Danielle on July 27, 2009 1:27 am

    Worked like a charm!! Finally a solution for my frustrating problem. Many thanks! :D

  4. Theo on August 25, 2009 9:45 pm

    I have done the above – but still cannot access our Cisco Aironet 1240AG Series Access Point. All other Access points work 100%. Only possible difference is that the Cisco does not broadcast the ssid (Hidden). I tried the “connect to hidden” but to no avail. On windows it works. Any ideas?

  5. Alex Jurkiewicz on August 26, 2009 11:51 am

    Well, if you enable SSID broadcast can you connect? Given there’s no security benefit to hiding the SSID I’d just recommend you re-enable it anyway.

  6. Ernesto on September 9, 2009 8:29 pm

    Thank you!

    A very good and simple solution for a big problem.

  7. alix on September 12, 2009 4:51 am

    worked exactly as you said, from a fresh instal of live ubuntu 9.04 (persitent from USB stick).

    thanks a lot!

  8. Emanuele on November 26, 2009 1:26 am

    THANK YOU! It’s very good post!

  9. Mikethenewbie on December 27, 2009 10:16 pm

    Thanks. I’m pullin’ my hair out here. I love Ubuntu but this wireless thing’s kickin’ my butt. I can’t find a “restricted driver manager”; all I can find is “hardware drivers” under system, administration. I cannot disable/enable, all I can see is the ‘activate’ button, which does nothing. The b43-fwcutter package was downloaded and installed correctly and the system rebooted. No wifi. Any suggestions would be better than Hair Club for Men. My DVD doesn’t play movies either. Do I need to “run” bfcutter, if so, what is the command to do that?

    Thanks!

  10. Alex Jurkiewicz on December 27, 2009 11:25 pm

    If you see “hardware drivers” instead of “restricted driver manager” you’re probably using 9.10. I have no idea how applicable these instructions are to 9.10, but I suspect not very.

  11. Siem on February 4, 2010 9:19 pm

    Can any one tell me what i have to do to enable my WIFI on BACKTRACK4, It uses Ubuntu. :)

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