Can't get Broadcom wireless card working

Hello everyone. First and foremost, I'm not a newbie to Linux, just to Arch, so I do kinda know what I'm doing
I've got my laptop with a Broadcom BCM4328. I followed the steps on the Wiki page to the letter, but I've got nothing: the wireless doesn't initialize, and I have no interface for the wireless. I've provided my output for a few commands below if it helps. I'm using the latest kernel as I just installed Arch today. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
[joshua@W01-Zeus ~]$ lspci | grep Broadcom
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
[joshua@W01-Zeus ~]$ sudo modprobe wl
[joshua@W01-Zeus ~]$ lsmod | grep wl
wl 1287680 0
lib80211 7172 1 wl
Last edited by djbon2112 (2009-10-27 16:25:15)

the modules that i'm talking about are b43, b43legacy and ssb. but looking at your devices ssb is needed by b44(ethernet module).
your MODULES should look like this:
MODULES=(wl !b43 !b43legacy...)
not that wl is first in this array
Last edited by wonder (2009-10-27 17:20:32)

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