Machiner has wrote a nice tutorial at www.debiantutorials.org
Please read also the comments. I resolved atleast a dozen laptops (HP, Acer & Compaq) with similar problems following his guides... Kishore On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 09:09 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:46:06 +0100 > > Korrignu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> hi, > >> i have some problems since i bought my new laptop > >> in fact i have a wifi card with a briadcom 4312 rev 02 chipset > >> and i don't know how to set up > >> i installed b43-fwcutter and then i load b43 module > >> but nothing happens > >> no new wireless interface etc... > >> > >> so i don't know if this chipset is supported by the b43 module > >> > >> if i install the broadcom STA/wl module, it works asa long as i don't > >> want to use a WPA-EAP with TTLS wifi network > >> because this lead to a kernel panic ... > >> > >> have I somebody already installed this kind of wifi card ? and how ? > >> or have sombedy have some informations to do that ? > >> > > > > The 4312 is listed as supported: > > > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#supported > > > > Post the relevant dmesg excerpt and lspci output. > > > > Celejar > > -- > > mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email > > ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator > > > > > > > I have this card in an HP 8000dv and it has never worked without > ndiswrapper. That doesn't even work anymore. I don't know if the XP > drivers were updated or not but b43-fwcutter always told me the firmware > wasn't correct now no matter which driver I chose just before I finally > dumped the card. > > It was a lousy card to begin with. Reception was very poor even using > ndiswrapper and it would drop the connection at least once an hour. > Every usb wifi card I tried reported far better signal strength from the > same position and so did the Intel mini-pci cards. None of them dropped > connections either. My advice, if you have the money to spend, is just > get another card such as one of the intel mini-pci cards that fit into > the same slot in the motherboard. They work much better and report much > better signal strength. > > I know some people got 4312 card to work, but in my hardware > configuration it never did work right. With ndiswrapper I couldn't use > any security and with the open source driver it just plain old didn't > work at all. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
