Wireless with a Compaq Presario V6420US

sfullenwider · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 9

I decided to join the laptop club and bought a Compaq Presario
V6420US. It´s a 64bit laptop and I´m using amd64.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834147458

Call me ancient but I´ve never had wireless ethernet before so it´s new
to me. I can´t seem to get it working. Initially I tried using
ndiswrapper but compaq.com gives me file not found for the XP drivers.

Then I tried (as I did not know it existed before) using the Broadcom
drivers in the linux kernel. This fails too with no access points
found. dmesg reveals bcm43xx: FATAL ERROR: BCM43xx_IRQ_XMIT_ERROR.

The laptop has a wired ethernet port which works without any harassment
at all. But it´s a laptop... I don´t want to be plugged into anything.

Searching google reveals that some ubuntu user got it working so I know
it´s possible. I just don´t know what man page I need to read or what
documentation I´m missing. If anyone has a clue I´d be appreciative.

On the back of the chip: BCM4311KFBG

lspci -nn:

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device
4311 [14e4:4311] (rev 02)

jexxie · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject:

Well, I don't have your wireless chipset, but the Linux kernel has direct support for that chipset:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Have you installed the bc43xx-fwcutter package? Have you extracted any firmware for that wifi card?
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sfullenwider · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 9