On 08/19/11 11:26, bendney wrote: > hello .im installing gentoo ,but the bcm4312 drivers can't work, i m a > newbie, i follow the documentation > > emerge ...firmware ...fwcutter emerge ...sta (wl) > but there has another guide say dont use firmware fwcutter , just > use sta what the relationship above ? how can i do ?
Okay, understood you're a "newbie", but I'm afraid I lost my crystal ball back in the Brisbane floods. I can certainly attest that the drivers do work. The 'sta' driver IIRC is Broadcom's proprietary driver. Nothing we can do to help you with that. (<rant>Ohh why can't Broadcom just join in with b43 instead of going the lone ranger approach?</rant>) What we'll need to know: - What kernel version are you using? (`uname -r`, or at the very least the ebuild you used. Have a squiz at /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel and see what directories are present.) - What Broadcom chip you are using (`lspci -nn`) - What version of firmware you used? I found that kernel 3.0 worked best for me with the 802.11N "Airport" in my 2008-model MacBook using the bleeding edge (not-yet-in-kernel) fwcutter and firmware. See: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.bcm54xx.devel/12038/focus=12141 Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list b43-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
