broadcom wifi not working

the card i have is a bcm4312. firstly its listed as needing the module wl but i cannot get wl to load. on 7.1 it works rather intermitantely with b43 module. however on 7.2 this is not so. as for trying to get wl working ive rmmod b43 (it doesnt work anyway)......

root:# lsmod

Module Size Used by

lib80211 4320 0

fuse 74380 1

sg 25795 0

snd_seq_dummy 1474 0

snd_seq_oss 26575 0

snd_seq_midi_event 6256 1 snd_seq_oss

snd_seq 49279 5 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy

snd_seq_device 4243 2 snd_seq,snd_seq_oss

snd_pcm_oss 33502 0

snd_mixer_oss 12966 3 snd_pcm_oss

speedstep_lib 3097 0

bcma 36394 0

mac80211 568578 0

snd_hda_codec_hdmi 35211 1

snd_hda_codec_idt 51203 1

snd_hda_codec_generic 51211 1 snd_hda_codec_idt

snd_hda_intel 23983 7

cfg80211 455070 1 mac80211

snd_hda_controller 19343 1 snd_hda_intel

snd_hda_codec 86149 5

snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller

dell_laptop 14296 0

gpio_ich 5591 0

dell_wmi 2286 0

rfkill 18745 2 cfg80211,dell_laptop

snd_hda_core 25981 5

snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_controller

snd_hwdep 6105 1 snd_hda_codec

snd_pcm 83998 5

snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller

ssb 53560 0

ppdev 5668 0

snd_timer 19880 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq

tg3 136607 0

snd 64954 23

snd_pcm_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_device,snd_mixer_oss

dcdbas 6449 1 dell_laptop

i2c_dev 5257 0

i8k 8914 0

mmc_core 94787 1 ssb

pcmcia 33867 1 ssb

soundcore 6112 3 snd

uhci_hcd 20280 0

ptp 11480 1 tg3

yenta_socket 20536 0

pps_core 7609 1 ptp

i2c_i801 13991 0

libphy 29129 1 tg3

lpc_ich 14350 0

joydev 9268 0

pcmcia_rsrc 8187 1 yenta_socket

pcmcia_core 15395 3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket

ehci_pci 4061 0

ehci_hcd 39803 1 ehci_pci

intel_agp 11319 0

thermal 10068 0

battery 10028 0

acpi_cpufreq 7433 1

processor 26895 3 acpi_cpufreq

parport_pc 19914 0

parport 33406 2 ppdev,parport_pc

evdev 9883 8

ac 3981 0

vmwgfx 152709 0

radeon 1261385 0

nouveau 1172786 0

mxm_wmi 1825 1 nouveau

wmi 9012 3 dell_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau

ttm 77534 3 radeon,nouveau,vmwgfx

i915 939429 3

button 5754 2 i915,nouveau

video 15299 2 i915,nouveau

drm_kms_helper 96882 4 i915,radeon,nouveau,vmwgfx

drm 294538 9 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,radeon,nouveau,vmwgfx

intel_gtt 12412 2 i915,intel_agp

agpgart 29531 4 drm,ttm,intel_agp,intel_gtt

thermal_sys 29876 3 video,thermal,processor

hwmon 3935 5 i8k,tg3,radeon,nouveau,thermal_sys

i2c_algo_bit 5188 3 i915,radeon,nouveau

i2c_core 41889 8

drm,i915,i2c_i801,i2c_dev,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,radeon,nouveau

root:# insmod iw.ko

insmod: ERROR: could not load module iw.ko: No such file or directory

root:# modprobe wl

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

(the relevant part of dmesg)

wl: Unknown symbol lockdep_init_map (err 0)

lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers

lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'

wl: Unknown symbol lockdep_init_map (err 0)

perf interrupt took too long (2520 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000

wl: Unknown symbol lockdep_init_map (err 0)

vector72:/~ root:# depmod -a

vector72:/~

root:# modinfo wl

filename: /lib/modules/4.1.10/kernel/extra/wl.ko

alias: pci:vdsvsdbc02sc80i*

depends:

vermagic: 4.1.10 SMP preempt mod_unload

parm: passivemode:int

parm: wl_txq_thresh:int

parm: oneonly:int

parm: piomode:int

parm: instance_base:int

parm: nompc:int

parm: intf_name:string

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