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fwempa
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 Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 4:31 am Post subject: Which setting am I missing... Wireless Broadcom [SOLVED] |
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All is well with 2.6.39-gentoo-r3. I compiled kernel 3.0 and cannot get wireless to connect. Is there a quick and dirty setting that I am missing? I'm not at home with laptop at the moment, will post details later. Using wicd.
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wizulis
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:18 am Post subject: |
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| Is the network card using b43 or wl driver ? |
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Mepho
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Does "# ifconfig -a" see it?
R u using b43, broadcom-sta or some other driver? What card is it exactly? Or at least post ".config". Either way give us more info.
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Gusar
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:24 am Post subject: |
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| "lspci -nn" is the most important piece of info. It'll tell is which driver is best suited and which firmware you eventually need. |
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moneycat
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you install the linux-firmware packages for the devices which needed? |
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fwempa
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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Ok folks, sorry for the delay...
As I said all is fine on older kernel, so I assume drivers are here and assumed it to be a kernel config issue. Correct me if I'm wrong. Using b43 driver if I am not mistaken.
Here is output from lspci:
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0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4328] (rev 03)
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And .config
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CONFIG_B43=y
CONFIG_B43_PCI_AUTOSELECT=y
CONFIG_B43_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT=y
# CONFIG_B43_PCMCIA is not set
CONFIG_B43_PIO=y
CONFIG_B43_PHY_N=y
CONFIG_B43_PHY_LP=y
CONFIG_B43_LEDS=y
CONFIG_B43_HWRNG=y
CONFIG_B43_DEBUG=y
# CONFIG_B43_FORCE_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_B43LEGACY is not set
# CONFIG_HOSTAP is not set
# CONFIG_IPW2100 is not set
# CONFIG_IPW2200 is not set
# CONFIG_IWLAGN is not set
# CONFIG_IWL4965 is not set
# CONFIG_IWL3945 is not set
# CONFIG_LIBERTAS is not set
# CONFIG_HERMES is not set
# CONFIG_P54_COMMON is not set
# CONFIG_RT2X00 is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8192CE is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8192SE is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8192CU is not set
# CONFIG_WL1251 is not set
# CONFIG_WL12XX_MENU is not set
# CONFIG_ZD1211RW is not set
# CONFIG_MWIFIEX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA is not set
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# Console display driver support
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CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y
CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=64
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY=y
# CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION is not set
# CONFIG_FONTS is not set
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I did just notice that when booted with kernel 2.6.39 the wireless card is defined by eth1. When booted with kernel 3.0 it is labeled wlan0. I suppose I just need to configure wicd? Or define wlan0? Or change wlan0 to eth1? The problem is I cannot remember how to do nay of these things.
Please let me know any other detail you may need.
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Gusar
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:15 am Post subject: |
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Hmm, if you had eth1 before, were you using the wl (broadcom-sta) driver? That one names devices ethX.
Anyway, your kernel looks ok for the b43 driver, which supports your card (partially - support for N networks is limited). With it, the card will be wlan0, so make sure wicd is configured accordingly. The only other thing I can think of is firmware. Do you have the b43-firmware package installed? |
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fwempa
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| SOLVED --- I installed the b43 packages and now am able to connect... All you questions have led me to the answers. Thanks. |
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