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Debian-like distributions come with b43, or b43legacy, and ssb modules for broadcom wireless cards, but they never worked for me. Searching over the internet i found out that broadcom provides the driver for BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-, BCM4321-, and BCM4322-based hardware, all we need to do is compile it and install the module. This is how we do it:

1 – Check your wireless card:
First of all we need to be sure that your wireless card is one of the BCMXXXX-based hardware:

The return should be something like this:
08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

In that line you can see that my wireless card hardware is BCM4312, so it is supported.

2 – Download the Driver:
You can access Broadcom’s website[0] and download it or use wget to download it through shell.
For 32-bits CPUs:

For 64-bits CPUs:

3 – Remove the other modules:
Check if b43, b43legacy, ssb and/or an older version of wl modules exist:

Remove them, if they exist:

Add b43, b43legacy and ssb to the blacklist, preventing them to be probed in initialization:

4 – Install the wl module:
Extract the tarball you downloaded and compile it, you’ll need to install the build-essential package to compile it:

If you have an older version of wl, which is usually in /lib/modules//kernel/net/wireless, you should rename or remove it, to avoid conflicts:

Copy the new wl.ko to /lib/modules//kernel/net/wireless and install it:

Add it to /etc/modules to load it at boot time:

After these steps your wireless network should be working.

Troubleshooting
I had another problem: after rebooting, ssb module was being loaded even after being blacklisted, and the recently added wl module wasn’t.

To check if this is happening to you run the command below:

If the command returns something, it means that the ssb module is being loaded, then you’ll have to:

1 – Remove ssb and wl modules:

2 – Back up the current boot ramfs, generate a new one and reboot system:

3 – Reinstall wl module:

And wl module will be loaded at boot time.

[0] http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

I’ve installed Debian Squeeze 64-bits, the current testing version of Debian, with KDE4 and i wasn’t able to watch YouTube (and similar websites) videos. I’ve noticed that the default SWF decoder library is swfdec[0], and i thought that installing the Flash Player from Adobe would solve the problem. Fortunately i was right, but i found out that Adobe Flash Player does not support 64-bit Linux[1].

Searching about it i ended up in a page, on Debian Wiki, with a workaround that worked for me. Just follow the instructions in http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

[0] http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/
[1] http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html