Broadcom STA update broke WiFi

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I have the BCM43225 chip in my Acer Aspire One netbook running 12.04 32-bit. My wireless had been working just fine (with the exception of enterprise networks not being able to connect to the internet...but that is another story) until I updated the Broadcom STA wireless driver a couple days ago.

Ever since, the wireless will randomly disconnect from the network ever half hour or so and take around a minute or two to reconnect. Any ideas what is going on?

Thanks!

look at this post it may help. http://askubuntu.com/questions/130477/dell-upgrade-to-12-04-lts-no-wifi-and-bluetooth-problem/132693#132693 — Mattlinux1, May 09 '12 at 01:44
possible duplicate of Wireless doesn't work on a Broadcom BCM4312 — jokerdino, Jul 08 '12 at 13:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 08 '12 at 15:43

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If you have a Broadcom B43xxx. Disable the STA driver, reboot, connect the Ethernet cable to get to the Internet, and run this command:

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

answered May 08 '12 at 15:43

Jeff Rash

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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Check out this answer to the respective question, which is very similar to yours.

The only difference I could find (I am the author of the linked question and answer) was that the interruptions were a lot more frequent in my case, but perhaps the problem is the same one. It seems that the 12.04 upgrade brought problems to many of the Broadcom network card users.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered May 01 '12 at 21:26

Severo Raz

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Broadcom STA update broke WiFi

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