On a separate note, I've just noticed that your ouput from the lsmod command shows that the Broadcom wl module is also loaded, so you ought to try unloading/blacklisting that too, in case it is interfering with the brcmsmac module.
Furthermore, I note that the wl module also supports your model of Broadcom wireless controller, so you could try keeping the wl module loaded and blacklisting instead the brcmsmac, b43 and ssb modules. As I don't have your hardware, it's difficult for me to be precise: you're going to have to experiment yourself.
By the way, when I wrote:
Fitzcarraldo wrote:If that works, you can blacklist the offending modules by adding the following command to the end of the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and rebooting:
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blacklist b43
blacklist ssb
that only applies if you have installed SL to your HDD. Obviously it would not work with a LiveDVD as a LiveDVD has no persistence of user-created/edited files.
EDIT: After you rmmod (manually unload) a module or modprobe (manually load) a module, you will probably have to do the following too:
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# ifconfig wlan0 up
or whatever your WiFi device is called.
