That mint article kind of tells you the basics of how to get it working. the rest is basic WiFi management in Linux.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote: > any ideas on how to get it working...... > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Mark Phillips <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Mike, >> >> Ideas about what??? >> >> Mark >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> bummer.... a little searching turned up >>> >>> http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/796 >>> >>> which tells us to >>> >>> lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 >>> 04:07.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 >>> 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02) >>> >>> and then to look for 14e4:170c in >>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 and if you can find it >>> it is supported. >>> >>> Ideas? >>> >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Matt Graham <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2014-10-22 23:38, Michael Havens wrote: >>>> >>>>> lsusb|grep NetGear >>>>> Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0846:9020 NetGear, Inc. WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N >>>>> 300 [Broadcom BCM43231] >>>>> >>>> >>>> Hm. A little grepping through /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/ >>>> made me think that the right kernel module might be brcmfmac . At least, >>>> that module says it supports the BCM42325, BCM43236, and BCM43238 USB >>>> devices, and 43231 is not that far away from those numbers. After you >>>> modprobe that module, you should see some stuff about "brcmfmac: found >>>> wlan0 at blah" in the output from dmesg, and you should see another >>>> networking device when you do "ifconfig -a" if it was the right thing. >>>> >>>> Or if that doesn't work, you could try the binary drivers from >>>> Broadcom. Your distro may have a package for those already; check that >>>> first. The Gentoo package is called broadcom-sta , so search your packages >>>> for that first. Homepage for binary drivers is >>>> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php , but you really >>>> really should use your distro's package if one exists. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >>>> There is no Darkness in Eternity >>>> But only Light too dim for us to see. >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen
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