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-The BroadcomWirelessChipset made by Broadcom is a one of the more relatively common WirelessChipsets available today. It is shipped by a wide range of companies.
+The BroadcomWirelessChipset made by Broadcom is a one of the more relatively common WirelessChipsets available today. It is shipped by a wide range of companies. Common models are the 4306 and 4318
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Previously there was not good support for this in the LinuxKernel but more recent versions (>= 2.6.17) are adding support.
You will need to extract firmware from a MicrosoftWindows driver by using a tool called fwcutter available from http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4547 or in DebianLinux as a package called bcm43xx-fwcutter.
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though of course it could be eth0, eth2, wlan0 etc (to help google with this error message!)
There is a good how-to for Ubuntu here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx
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-Some keywords for search engine: bcmwl5 bcm43xx broadcom 4306 4318
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