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---
title: Enabling wireless on Dell Latitude 2110 under CrunchBang Linux
date: 2012-07-08 09:18:59
tags: [BCM43224, crunchbang, dell, linux]
category: linux
---
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> Update 2023: crunchbang is no longer a thing, replaced by [bunsenlabs](https://www.bunsenlabs.org/)
> Please note that I no longer host this kernel as it is very old and also Crunchbang is no more.**
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Some time ago I got my hands on [CrunchBang Linux ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrunchBang_Linux ) distro, which is great. The only thing there that could be better is that my Broadcom BCM43224 WiFi card is not working. But I'm used to it, as many
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Linux distros do not provide it. As I happen to
know from my Fedora experiences that it is resolved in kernel version
3.4 . Also as that kernel tends to be generally faster on my machine, I
decided to compile just this one. Here you are. [Vanilla 3.4.4 ](http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.4.4.tar.bz2 )
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kernel, [compiled]()
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for Intel Atom and with BCM43224 support. This is a 64bit kernel.
Download [crunchbanglinux-kernel-3.4.4-intel\_atom.tar.bz2]
and:
```
dpkg --remove firmware-linux
dpkg --remove firmware-linux-nonfree
tar jxf crunchbanglinux-kernel-3.4.4-intel_atom.tar.bz2
cd linux-3.4.4-intel_atom/
dpkg -i *.deb
reboot
```
Should work for Debian Squeeze also but not tested on that system. Email me if you'd
like it compiled any other way, e.g. for another processor.
