Broadcom Wireless adapters and kernel updates [SOLVED]

[Temlakos]

On 07/01/2014 01:06 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 07/01/2014 01:03 PM, Temlakos wrote:
>> Everyone:
>>
>> Updating to the new kernel temporarily knocked out my wireless 
>> connectivity on my Dell Inspiron 1545.
>>
>> That is, until I executed:
>>
>> # modprobe b43
>>
>> Or, since I am a member of "wheel":
>>
>> $ sudo modprobe b43
>>
>> A few seconds after I issued that command, wireless was enabled, and 
>> the connection I had long been using, re-activated itself.
>>
>> Question: must I execute "modprobe xxx" with every kernel upgrade?
>>
>> (By the way: it turns out that module "wl" is not necessary.)
>>
>> Temlakos
>>
> to make it permanent..
> |sudo echo b43 >> /etc/modules|
>
> -- 
> Paul Cartwright
> Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
>
>

I'll assume it's solved. I had to "become root" to do it, but I executed:

# echo b43 >> modules

while is directory /etc

Now I have a file called "modules" with the line "b43" in it.

Temlakos
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