2011/3/11 Chen, Xianwen <xianwen.chen@xxxxxxxxx>: > Thanks a lot Chaoxing, Larry and Rafal, > > I installed the Linux firmware (20110128), as you can see by 'ls > /lib/firmware/brcm/ -l' > > Âtotal 368 > Â-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269595 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.bin > Â-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1604 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.txt > Â-rw-r--r-- 1 root root Â97376 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw > Â-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  Â180 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw > > However, after rebooting and even after recompiling and rebooting the > kernel, the wireless adapter doesn't yet show up. > > Hence, I decide to give more details on the problem, to see if > something is missing: > > (1) The Dell Latitude E5410 is running Gentoo AMD64 with all packages > up to date. > > (2) The latest 2.6.38-rc8 kernel is used. > > (3) The kernel config can be seen at http://pastebin.com/ExAzLHr8. > > (4) The dmesg is uploaded to http://pastebin.com/wV3Wp54r. > > (5) The output from lspci is at http://pastebin.com/Giqs7kkA. > > Any thoughts, please? 1) Update your pci db (sudo update-pciids) 2) Reboot maybe? I don't know if this is needed for lspci 3) Give us lspci -nn 4) Give us "lsmod | grep brcm80211" 5) Execute: "sudo modprobe brcm80211" 6) Give us "dmesg | grep brcm80211" -- RafaÅ -- 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
