HP Laptop with broadcom and a tactile button

[Exinferis]

So after endless hours of googling this problem, im not finding any solutions, so i hope some of you gentoo wizards can help me out

and for the record, im pretty new at gentoo, so be gentle

Ive got a hp 6735b laptop, with a broadcom 4322 wlan card, and i cant get it activated.
The laptop has these buttons(seen lots of names for them, tactile buttons, killswitch) orange is off, and blue is on, the other buttons react to touch, but not much is happening.

lspci doesnt really say anything about wlan, only broadcom it mentions is the normal wired network. Tried a number of things, but i cant get that damn light to turn blue!

Anyone have any clues to how i should try and do this?

[rh1]

I would have thought it would show up in lspci regardless, but maybe not.
Your post doesn't really say what you've tried , so i'll assume nothing and start at the begining.
If your sure about your which wireless card you have then you want to "emerge broadcom-sta" if you haven't already.
Most likely you'll need to reconfigure your kernel first, You'll know because it will fail to build.

You need these options either builtin or as modules
Please note that Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking stack isn't enabled. It's usually enabled by default, you need to turn it off.
Also make sure Sonics Silicon Backpane support is off too.

Using "make menuconfig":

[Exinferis]

(sorry for a late response, i was foolish enough to ask the question before going on a vacation)

ive tried that solution, but i have not been able to get it to work

ifconfig gives me

[rh1]

Your problem isn't with the tactile button. Your system can't even find your wireless card or it would show in ifconfig regardless of that button being on.
Please post the output of

[Amity88]

I have an HP laptop too, it's got a broadcom 4311 wireless Lan module. You need to enable the b43 drivers in the kernel first, recompile it & then install the firmware using

# emerge b43-firmware

Once you are done with that, we need iwconfig so

# emerge wireless-tools

because, ifconfig won't list wlan0 unless it's up. And you need iwconfig to see its status. Finally, if like most of us you use WPA encryption with your router, you would want to get wpa_supplicant

# emerge wpa_supplicant

if you have any problems just ask, I was confused too before the first time I got it to work
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[MadMaxCZ]

[kindofblue]

Have you been able to get your 4322 wlan card to work? I also have an HP laptop with this card. I emerged broadcom-sta (version 5.100.82.38-r1), without any luck. After loading the wl module, I see this for the network interface:

[bloedie]

Hi.

I had the same problem. This helped me out.
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Broadcom_43xx

Good luck!

Cu.
Bloedie

[kindofblue]

Ok thanks. Unfortunately the article didn't help. I can't even set the txpower with iwconfig: