rosea grammostola wrote: > Robin Gareus wrote: >> rosea grammostola wrote: >> >>> rosea grammostola wrote: >>> >>>> Robin Gareus wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi there, >>>>> >>>>> I've just uploaded a linux 2.6.31-rt11 kernel to the 64studio >>>>> repositories. It's targeted for Intel Core Duo and Atom CPUs >>>> What if you have a pentium 4 (single core)? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.31-rt11-686-multimedia >>>>> kernel-headers and -sources are available from there as well. >>>>> >>>> Where do you need the sources for? >>>> >>>> >>>> This is compiled as module, does that mean it works out of the box >>>> (for a friend)? >>>> >>>> Broadcom Corporation BCM43XX >>>> >>>> >>> My friend reported that is doesn't work out of the box. It's: >>> >>> Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) >>> >>> What to do? >>> >> >> read http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 the section >> "You are using the b43 driver from linux-2.6.25 or newer" >> >> `modprobe b43` and look at the output of `dmesg`. It should say sth >> about missing firmware. >> >> The website says you need to extract the firmware from the official >> driver: >> > > But I don't have to do that right? It was in the kernel as module right?
I think you do, It's not included in the firmware-non-free from debian, and - as the website says - it is not present in linux-2.6.25 and newer or compat-wireless-2.6. We'll need to read their license to see if we can come up with a package that installs it automatically or ship it somehow. Since debian includes a package bcm43xx-fwcutter, I guess the only solution is to cut the firmware out of the "official driver" provided by Broadcom. Sorry about my first assumption it would work OOTB; I should have done my homework properly before saying that.. Looking a the State of supported devices on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Known_PCI_devices Broadcom is really a mess :-/ robin _______________________________________________ 64studio-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel
