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title: Enabling wireless on Dell Latitude 2110 under CrunchBang Linux
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date: 2012-07-08 09:18:59
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tags: [BCM43224, crunchbang, dell, linux]
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category: linux
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---
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Update:
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**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](http://crunchbanglinux.org/) 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
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know from my Fedora experiences that it is resolved in kernel version
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3.4 . Also as that kernel tends to be generally faster on my machine, I
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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](http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/18060/how-to-compile-the-kernel-from-source/)
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for Intel Atom and with BCM43224 support. This is a 64bit kernel.
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Download [crunchbanglinux-kernel-3.4.4-intel\_atom.tar.bz2]
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and:
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```
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dpkg --remove firmware-linux
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dpkg --remove firmware-linux-nonfree
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tar jxf crunchbanglinux-kernel-3.4.4-intel_atom.tar.bz2
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cd linux-3.4.4-intel_atom/
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dpkg -i *.deb
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reboot
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```
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Should work for Debian Squeeze also but not tested on that system. Email me if you'd
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like it compiled any other way, e.g. for another processor.
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