W dniu 22 grudnia 2011 09:45 użytkownik lina <lina.lastname@xxxxxxxxx> napisał: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2011/12/22 lina <lina.lastname@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> 2011/12/22 lina <lina.lastname@xxxxxxxxx>: >>>>> I am still a bit confused. (First thanks for the links all of you >>>>> provided, but I have visited those web before). >>>>> >>>>> Here is the thing: >>>>> BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n fit for >>>>> BCM4331 b/g HT (r1) >>>>> >>>>> What does the 802.11a for? >>>> >>>> Well, your card can operate in 5GHz band (frequencies). But I'm not >>>> really sure why you ask about this at all. >>>> >>>> If you want to try experimental BCM4331 support you have to: >>>> 1) Install kernel 3.2-rc3 or newer >>> I have the 3.2.0-rc6 >>>> or >>>> 2) Install compat wireless >>>> >>>> After that you've do install firmware (check for wiki howto for kernel >>>> 3.2 and newer). >>> >>> after installation of the compat-wireless, >>> >>> from >>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmware >>> >>> # aptitude install firmware-b43-installer >>> >>> >>> Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:015-9) ... >>> Setting up firmware-b43-installer (1:015-9) ... >>> No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation >>> Unsupported device(s) found: PCI id 14e4:4331 >>> Aborting. >>> >>> I don't know which part is wrong here. >> >> Your tool is too old (support for BCM4331 is really recent). > sorry, here you mean, which tool? >> >> Just do as I said and use howto for kernel 3.2, not distro-specific >> howto. You nede to install b43-fwcutter and manually download file for > I can't tell the difference. (I really need detailed instructions, > thanks for your patience ahead) > > I tried to follow what you said before, with the kernel 3.2-rc6 > install the compate-wireless, > but have problem in the following install the firmware-installer. >> firmware extraction. wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2 tar xjf b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2 cd b43-fwcutter-015 make sudo make install cd .. export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware" wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o -- Rafał -- 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
