On 01/26/2013 10:05 PM, stosss wrote:
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.
If you have the firmware files loaded in /lib/firmware/b43/, then you need not
do anything else related to firmware. Please run the following 2 commands, and
then look at the end of the dmesg output:
sudo /sbin/modprobe -rv b43
sudo /sbin/modprobe -v b43
iwconfig
Larry
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