No wireless on new 3.1.0-2 kernel LMDE 64bit
xircon
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Updated today, killed my wireless. Everything was fine before. Have uninstalled and am back on vanilla 3.1.0-1-amd64 from Debian Testing.

Have tried the WL drivers and the brcmsmac (with the able assistance of AlbertP on the LMDE forum). System info inxi -F

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System:    Host: n5010 Kernel: 3.1.0-1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop Gnome 2.30.2 Distro: Linux Mint Debian Edition
Machine:   Mobo: Dell model: 03C6YH version: A15 Bios: Dell version: A15 date: 07/19/2011
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5 CPU M 430 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx)
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1197.00 MHz 2: 1197.00 MHz 3: 1197.00 MHz 4: 1197.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: ATI Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series]
           X.Org: 1.11.1.902 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: vesa,fbdev) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 7.11
Audio:     Card-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
           Card-2: ATI Manhattan HDMI Audio [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver: r8169
           IF: eth1 state: down speed: 10 Mbps duplex: half mac: a4:ba:db:ba:04:f2
           Card-2: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller driver: brcmsmac
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 70:f1:a1:55:fe:bf
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (18.9% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD5000BEVT 500.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 46G used: 9.2G (22%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 221G used: 79G (38%) fs: ext4
           ID: swap-1 size: 8.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 63.5C mobo: N/A gpu: 63.5
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 244 Uptime: 12 min Memory: 2453.3/3831.4MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24
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Could this be a problem with the renaming of eth2 to wlan0? Read something somewhere, but can't remember where :)
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ej64
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Seems that's not a Liquorix issue:
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Wi-Fi card does not work or show up since kernel upgrade (brcmsmac)
Note: This affects Linux kernels 3.0 and 3.1.

This is caused by the kernel using the bcma module instead of the brcmsmac module. The solution is to blacklist the bcma module. For instructions, see Kernel_modules#Blacklisting.

see: Archwiki: Broadcom wireless

I can only guess why it works with the debian kernel, perhaps they disabled the bcma module.
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