On 11/04/2013 12:51 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > I've been trying to remember the trick to get BRCM to work and I can't > remember at all. I'm using BCM4313. I've enabled everything with BCMA > or BRCM in the config name. > > The module loads and the device shows up if I type "ifconfig wlan0" but > network manager doesn't see it and wicd doesn't see it. (These are old > versions of nm and wicd). > > This used to work under 3.8 but I didn't save my .config... :( Are these old versions of nm and wicd only supporting the deprecated WEXT interface? If this is the case you have to set CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT=y in your config. You also need a firmware for this device /lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw and /lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw are needed. When the device gets detected by brcmsmac, it is probably not a problem in the Broadcom driver. > I've done a google search and it seems like the broadcom driver is still > a complete mess and you need to black list modules and hack everything > yourself on a per system basis? Is that right? Why can't we fix this > so it works? When you want to use the property closed source Broadcom driver then you have to blacklist the in kernel drivers. When you want to use the in kernel drivers, BCM4313 should get detected and the modules should get loaded like it is done for every other PCIe device. Hauke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
