[ale] bcm4318 keeps forgetting-SOLVED

[Paul Cartwright]

On 06/17/2014 06:03 PM, Barlow, Jim D wrote:
>> The only problem is his wireless card, the Broadcom 4318. It keeps losing it, then not going online. I showed him how to open a terminal, sudo su, modprobe > b43, and then it goes online. Why doesn't it keep that, am I missing a step??
> Is this on an Ubuntu or derivative?   I had problems like this with Ubuntu and Linuxmint on two different friends laptops.   Updates would clobber the 43xx configuration too.   It was just easier for me to put them on Fedora, and cinnamon desktop.   Then (wireless) things stay fixed.   I know that's the easy way out...
I fixed it ( for now...) saw a web page that echoed something to
/etc/modules...
I didn't think about updates, but it is Mint 17..
as an aside, he emailed me this morning & asked me to wipe out the
windows partition, saying he felt really good about Mint!!!

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