Re: Broadcom driver

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  On 10/21/2010 04:08 PM, Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 16:00 -0400, Jim wrote:
>> On 10/21/2010 03:49 PM, Terry Polzin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:39 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>> On 10/21/2010 03:25 PM, Terry Polzin wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:18 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 14:39 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>>>>> fedora 13
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a Broadcom wireless installed on a Dell Inspiron Mini 1210 and it
>>>>>>> shows the b43 and ssb driver in lsmod,
>>>>>>> Wireless card not working.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Shouldn't it be the kmod-wl package that makes the card work ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g
>>>>>>> LP-PHY (rev 01)
>>>>>>>             Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card
>>>>>>>             Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>>>>>>>             Memory at f0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>>>>>>             Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>>>>>>>             Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78<?>
>>>>>>>             Capabilities: [e8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>>>>>>>             Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>>>>>>>             Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>>>>>>>             Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
>>>>>>>             Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 3b-ac-fe-ff-ff-ba-c4-17
>>>>>>>             Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting<?>
>>>>>>>             Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
>>>>>>>             Kernel modules: ssb
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have you loaded the firmware??
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> bcm43xx-fwcutter.i686  package google for all that needs to be done, my mind isn't there right now.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I have installed
>>>>
>>>> b43-fwcutter
>>>> b43-openfwwf
>>>> b43-tools
>>> Ultimate goal is to have a /lib/firmware/b43 directory (populated) once
>>> you have that, reboot
>>
>>> b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
>> I have the following files in /usr/firmware/b43 but rebooting doesn't help.
>>
>> b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
>> b0g0initvals5.fw
>> ucode5.fw
> That's what's in mine, I don't have the b43any more though
>
>   ll /lib/firmware/b43/
> total 20
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  158 Jan 27  2010 b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  976 Jan 27  2010 b0g0initvals5.fw
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 9528 Jan 27  2010 ucode5.fw
>
> Broadcom just went open with their driver code maybe there's something
> new on the net.
>
> B43 was always shakey for me, traded up to a newer mini-pci card and got
> N capability in the process, haven't looked back.
>
>
Thanks for your help.
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