When installing Ubuntu on a HP Compaq nc6120 I encountered some issues:
1. Hanging while booting cd
2. no WLAN
Reason: The Broadcom WLAN adapter (BCM4318)
lspci | grep Network 02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
What to do:
- add to the start options (F6 – expert mode):
b43.blacklist=yes
before the
--
- now you can install ubuntu
- reboot
- In the grub options you habe to use the
b43.blacklist=yes
option again, because w/o this option Ubuntu hangs - deinstall this packages:
bcmwl-kernel-source
- install this packages:
firmware-b43-installer
and theb43-fwcutter
- in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
put a # in front of the line:blacklist bcm43xx
- reboot
Sources:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2012-March/002460.html
http://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/how-to-install-broadcom-wireless-drivers?answertab=votes#tab-top