Broadcom wireless on Debian Testing

[Aviss,Tyler]

 From what I remember, You should only use one or the other of "b43"  
or "b43legacy."

Also, I'd have to check your particular card, but from my experience  
the b43 drivers don't often support the 802.11N cards. My coworkers N  
card requires ndiswrapper, and mine works with the closed "wl" driver  
that broadcomm themselves maintain (similar to the nvidia/ATI binary  
blob drivers for video)

I can check further when I get home and at my laptop if you'd like



(sent from my phone, so please excuse the typos)

On 1-Jul-09, at 9:31 AM, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, JoeHill wrote:
>>
>>> I've got a notebook here with built in Broadcom wireless, and before
>>> I mess this up too much I though I would ask for some tips in
>>> getting this working.
>>>
>>> I did lspci and got the model like so:
>>>
>>> Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n  
>>> (rev 03)
>>>
>>> I found this article:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx
>>>
>>> which seemed to indicate that this was going to be a pretty trivial
>>> process. Installing the b43-fwcutter and wireless-tools went off
>>> without error and the firmware was extracted, but so far I've got no
>>> wireless.
>>>
>>> I followed the suggested troubleshooting steps, excluding manual
>>> installation of the firmware, no answers.
>>
>>  i just followed the same page for a BCM4318 wireless chip on a
>> laptop running debian 5.01 and it worked fine.
>
> The thing I'm not sure about is that the wiki seems to indicate that  
> the
> firmware installation is completely automated, but then I see things  
> explaining
> when you need to use the b43 fw, and when you need to use the  
> b43legacy fw. Is
> is automatically detected and loaded? I tried entering both  
> 'modprobe b43' and
> 'modprobe b43legacy', but still no go.
>
> Thanks!
>
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> J
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