2012/6/17 Greg Roth <gregoryr...@comcast.net>: > Broadcom's website is no help and the lspci -vvnn command comes back blank. > I'm following the instructions on this site: > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#switch_b43 > > I can't tell if it's a driver or firmware or what is broken, and I hope you > can help me. This netbook will be for a young lady whose father died of a > brain tumor. > > > and here are the results of the 3 utilities required. > > mint@mint ~ $ uname -a > Linux mint 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 > i686 GNU/Linux
Please see: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Other_distributions_not_mentioned_above Your kernel is 2.6.32, so you need to follow 1) Install b43-fwcutter 2) If you are using the b43 driver from older kernel So the steps for you are (quoting from wiki): wget http://bues.ch/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2 tar xjf b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2 cd b43-fwcutter-015 make sudo make install cd .. export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware" wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mipsel.tar.bz2 tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mipsel.tar.bz2 sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3/driver/wl_apsta/wl_prebuilt.o (Please refer to wiki if my dumb GMail will break lines) -- Rafał _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list b43-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
