On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net> wrote: > On 01/26/2013 09:34 PM, stosss wrote: >> >> Following the instructions from >> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 >> >> lspci -vnn -d 14e4: >> >> 0b:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 >> 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03) >> Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11b/g >> WLAN [103c:12f8] >> Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 5 >> Memory at c8206000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] >> [size=8k] >> Kernel modules: ssb >> >> >> PCI-ID Supported Chip ID Modes PHY version >> 14e4:4320 yes BCM4306/3 ? G (r2) >> >> Device firmware installation >> >> The Broadcom wireless chip needs proprietary software (called >> "firmware") that runs on the wireless chip itself to work properly. >> This firmware is copyrighted by Broadcom and must be extracted from >> Broadcom's proprietary drivers. To get such firmware on your system, >> you must download the driver from a legal distribution point, extract >> it, and install it. This is accomplished different ways by different >> Linux distributions, so please read the section for yours for the best >> results. You will need an alternate working internet connection (by >> Ethernet cable, for example) since the firmware cannot be included >> with the distro itself. >> >> Post details for missing distributions at b43-dev@lists.infradead.org. >> Note: the firmware from the binary drivers is copyrighted by Broadcom >> Corporation and cannot be redistributed. >> >> I have been to the broadcom site. I have found and downloaded files >> from the broadcom site and a couple other sites that are for the >> bcm4306. >> >> I am running PCLinuxOS which is a combination of Mandriva, Ubuntu, >> Debian and a few other distributions. >> >> I have installed from the distribution repo >> b43-firmware >> b43-fwcutter >> b43legacy-firmware >> bcm43xx-firmware >> bcm43-fwcutter >> dkms-broadcom-wl >> >> According to the info above this chip should work. Something is >> missing but I don't know what it is. >> >> There are three windows drivers that show up with ndiswrapper -l that >> should work as well but they don't either. >> >> I don't know what else to check or do. Do I need to black list the >> Kernel module ssb ? I have tried to get a Linux or windows driver to >> work and I have tried several things even uninstalling all drivers and >> then installing the ones listed above. >> >> It would be awesome if someone could tell me what I haven't done that >> I need to do and point me to a workable solution. > > > Did you run b43-fwcutter to extract the firmware?
I don't know what to do here or if I need to. > Do you have files in directory /lib/firmware/b43/? Yes, all of them end in .fw the b43-firmware is provided by the the distribution repo. I am assuming that it, too, has a script similar to the one with your distribution. There have been several from the distro forum who have used a few methods to achieve success on their systems but none of their suggestions have worked for me. Maybe because I need to run that b43-fwcutter but I don't know what file to use it on. If I knew the answer to that I might have the problem solved. > I use the openSUSE distro, which includes a script > /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware that downloads the necessary Broadcom > driver file, extracts the firmware using fwcutter, and writes the files to > the firmware directory. I have no idea how PCLinuxOS does it. I was actually considering installing openSUSE on the laptop that I am having the problem on. To see if I could resolve the problem. I saw it listed as one specifically referenced on thehttp://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 site. _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list b43-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
