Broadcom BCM4313 wifi slow after upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04
Yes, I was having same issue with brcmsmac drivers.
I installed as given in the screenshot below. Do not use jockey-gtk, it will fail to load there.
Install it in this way,
Reboot and your problem will be resolved. I was using 12.04 earlier and these proprietary drivers were not working there. But in 14.04 they are working flawlessly. If failed, try to install again as per broadcom documentation.
http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt
Read in last lines
From the GUI:
Package Manager (System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager). Click the Reload button in the upper left corner of Synaptic to refresh your index then search for and reinstall the package named bcmwl-kernel-source.
From the shell: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source
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paul
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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paul over 1 year
I'm afraid this is another question about Broadcom wifi (in particular, the BCM4313 chipset). Before upgrading to 14.04, my wifi worked perfectly. Since upgrading, it has been working only very slowly, and occasionally not at all.
I am currently running the brcmsmac driver, which the official documentation, as well as many of the answers in the links below, suggest is the right one for my kernel version and chipset.
I have pasted the wireless info from my computer (including
lspci
,iwconfig
,iwlist
,lsmod
, etc.) here: http://pastebin.com/5fhWiWi0.I appreciate that problems such as mine seem to be widespread. Here are some of the similar questions I've found on these forums:
- Extremely slow connection with a Broadcom BCM4313 wireless card
- Cannot connect to wifi after upgrade to 13.10 (BCM4313)
- Broadcom bcm4313 Ubuntu 13.10 connection time out
- Wireless problems with Broadcom BCM4313
- How do I get a Broadcom BCM4313 wireless card working?
- 13.10 BCM4313 network problems after update
However, none of the answers contained therein worked/applied in my case.
EDIT: I should have mentioned that I have also tried using
bcmwl-kernel-source
. This works better thanbcrcmsmac
(but not perfectly) on one of the two wifi networks that I regularly use, but it won't even allow me to connect to the other one.-
Admin about 10 yearsTry with
sudo apt-get --reinstall install linux-firmware-nonfree
. This is the common wifi driver containing package. -
paul about 10 yearsDone. Unfortunately no difference to the connection.
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Admin about 10 yearsIf so, install the broadcom b43 driver installer and install drivers from it.
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
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paul about 10 yearsThis doesn't seem to work at all (it won't even connect).
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paul about 10 yearsMany thanks @Kanhinya. Apologies, I should have said in my original post that I've tried the
bcmwl-kernel-source
driver and that doesn't work for me either. I've amended the question accordingly.