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

2 Comments Posted by on November 27, 2012

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 The official deb available from Broadcom is outdated.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)

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

  1. Elbis January 28, 2013 at 9:43 am

    The deb package is for amd. What do you do for intel?

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  2. iliyan February 18, 2013 at 6:04 pm

    works but only if router set to wireless b network… very slow! driver does not support g and n? any suggestions? thx

    Reply

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