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sall
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Location: WV, USA
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 Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject: b43-fwcutter |
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I am trying to get my bcm4318 card to work in my laptop. I have installed the package net-wireless/b43-fwcutter by:
emerge net-wireless/b43fwcutter
Everything goes well. However I have no idea where to go from here I ran an etc-update and rebooted. No wireless card. Can anyone help me out I want to get my wireless up before I continue building the rest of system so I have free range and don't have to sit in one spot. Thanks in advance.
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d2_racing
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Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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| Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, can you post your lspci plz ?
Because a B43 is pretty hard to make this thing works on Linux : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#supported
I hate broadcom for that.
After a fresh reboot can you post this :
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# ifconfig -a
# iwconfig
# dmesg | grep -i b43
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If you don't see anything, then double check your kernel to see if you have enabled the b43 driver.
Also you may need to install the firmware like this :
I don't know if this thing is necessary nowadays :
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# export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
# wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.3.tar.bz2
# tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.3.tar.bz2
# cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
# mkdir /lib/firmware
# b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware <firmware file>
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lucapost
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krenshala
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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Location: Austin TX, NorAm, Sol III
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| Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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I just recently got a BCM4318 working using information from the forums here and a couple other sites. The only real problem I ran into was that b43-fwcutter didn't like the latest driver version from Belkin when it tried to extract the firmware. I didn't do the kernel patching listed in the above link, so I don't know if that would have helped or not.
Otherwise it was actually surprisingly straight forward, considering the complaints I've read about how much of a pain it can be.
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