Broadcom 4311 network adapter doesn't work under Jessie (was debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #1143)

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:23:39 -0400 (EDT), Edward Lukacs wrote:
> 
> Oh, yes ... I can't get the ... Broadcom 4311 internal card
> running under Jessie.  ... Strange, but up to and including Ubuntu
> 10.04, it ran right out of the box without any fuss ...

Sounds like missing firmware.  Do you have the non-free and contrib
sections of the Debian archive enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list?
Do you have Debian package firmware-b43-installer installed?

After installing it, and rebooting, issue
 
   dmesg|less

and search for the string "firmware" to see if the firmware loaded
properly this time, and to see if there are any other missing firmware
files for other hardware that requires firmware.

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