Re: bcm4331 firmware installer package

W dniu 22 grudnia 2011 09:45 użytkownik lina [off-list ref] napisał:

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Rafał Miłecki [off-list ref] wrote:

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2011/12/22 lina [off-list ref]:

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On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Rafał Miłecki [off-list ref] wrote:

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2011/12/22 lina [off-list ref]:

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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

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 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?

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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.

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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

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Rafał