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CoderMan
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 Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:49 am Post subject: Wireless : Dell WLAN 1397 (802.11 b/g) 1/2 MiniCard - K |
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Hi. I recently bought a Dell Mini 10v, wiped Ubuntu, and install Gentoo. Now I need to get wireless working. I know it has this wireless card:
Wireless : Dell WLAN 1397 (802.11 b/g) 1/2 MiniCard - K
I looked at linuxwireless.org for information about the drivers, but I did not see that brand. Does anyone know what drivers I should use for that? I checked the Dell support website but I only found drivers for Windoze. |
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d2_racing
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:50 am Post subject: |
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Hi, can you post this :
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pilla
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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Worst case scenario, there is no native driver for it on Linux and then you should try ndiswrapper.
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d2_racing
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| In fact, that can hurt pretty bad. |
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CoderMan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| d2_racing wrote: | Hi, can you post this :
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Here is lspci -n:
| Code: | adler choward # lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 8086:27ac (rev 03)
00:02.0 0300: 8086:27ae (rev 03)
00:02.1 0380: 8086:27a6 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 02)
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 0604: 8086:27d4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 02)
00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 02)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 02)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev e2)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:27b9 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 0101: 8086:27c4 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 02)
03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)
04:00.0 0200: 10ec:8136 (rev 02)
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But just lspci command seemed more informative:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
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And lsusb:
| Code: | Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:a129 Suyin Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
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d2_racing
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, you are lucky, you have a broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g, so you need to use the broadcom-sta driver I think.
Pappy_Mcfae can help you with that  |
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CoderMan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| d2_racing wrote: | Ok, you are lucky, you have a broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g, so you need to use the broadcom-sta driver I think.
Pappy_Mcfae can help you with that |
Merci. I found the broadcom-sta drivers for Linux online. However, I couldn't get them working. The driver installation instructions indicate that I am supposed to deactivate and blacklist several modules, include one that is apparently running my USB controller. I installed anyway, but my network manager still couldn't recognize the device.
According to the Gentoo wiki, my wireless card does not work with the b43 driver either, so I think I'm just going to give up and get a different wireless card or other device. |
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d2_racing
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CoderMan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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Merci beaucoup! From now on I'm going to have to google in French instead of English.
Question, however: what is the proper way to disable modules under Gentoo? Emerge warnings say:
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>>> Recording net-wireless/broadcom-sta in "world" favorites file...
* Messages for package net-wireless/broadcom-sta-5.10.91.9.3-r1:
* CONFIG_B43: should not be set. But it is.
* CONFIG_SSB: should not be set. But it is.
* Please check to make sure these options are set correctly.
* Failure to do so may cause unexpected problems.
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And your tutorial also says these should be disabled, but not how to disable them. (Unless I missed that part.) I remember when trying to do this with the drivers from the Broadcom website that it just wanted me to add them to the module blacklist file, but I was kind of afraid to since apparently the ssb module was actually being used for something.[/code] |
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d2_racing
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| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:11 am Post subject: |
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Hi, you need to disable it by doing that :
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# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
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Now find the module that you need to remove and then recompile your kernel.
Are you ok with that procedure or you need more info ? |
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CoderMan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| d2_racing wrote: | Hi, you need to disable it by doing that :
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# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
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Now find the module that you need to remove and then recompile your kernel.
Are you ok with that procedure or you need more info ? |
Do I really have to recompile the whole kernel because of two modules? |
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CoderMan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm a little uncertain how to proceed, because apparrently I can't just "deselect" ssb support in the module, because a ton of other stuff also sets CONFIG_SSB, like Ethernet support. I can deselect the Broadcom modules, but when I try to deselect the ssb support it won't let me. |
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d2_racing
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| You need to remove the broadcom support inside your kernel, because you will use the package broadcom-sta driver instead. |
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GlasGhost
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| d2_racing wrote: | Hi, you need to disable it by doing that :
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# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
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Now find the module that you need to remove and then recompile your kernel.
Are you ok with that procedure or you need more info ? |
In the menuconfig I'm having trouble finding:
CONFIG_B43
CONFIG_SSB
CONFIG_MAC80211
Could someone please post a more clear location of where to find them in the menu similar to this snippet I found in another post:
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Or you can run genkernel --menuconfig all and change the compression mode to gzip.
General setup --->
Kernel compression mode (Gzip) --->
# change selection with up arrow to gzip from lzma and enter
(X) Gzip
( ) Bzip2
( ) LZMA
( ) XZ
( ) LZO |
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GlasGhost
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| GlasGhost wrote: | | d2_racing wrote: | Hi, you need to disable it by doing that :
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# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
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Now find the module that you need to remove and then recompile your kernel.
Are you ok with that procedure or you need more info ? |
In the menuconfig I'm having trouble finding:
CONFIG_B43
CONFIG_SSB
CONFIG_MAC80211
Could someone please post a more clear location of where to find them in the menu similar to this snippet I found in another post:
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Or you can run genkernel --menuconfig all and change the compression mode to gzip.
General setup --->
Kernel compression mode (Gzip) --->
# change selection with up arrow to gzip from lzma and enter
(X) Gzip
( ) Bzip2
( ) LZMA
( ) XZ
( ) LZO |
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SOLUTION:
| cach0rr0 wrote: | config_ssb is "Sonics Silicon Backplane"
note that if you go into menuconfig, hit the /forward slash, you can search for "CONFIG_SSB" and it'll tell you how to get there. |
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