Author Topic: Need help finding wireless driver  (Read 872 times)

Offline stealth

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Need help finding wireless driver
« on: September 02, 2010, 11:49:58 PM »
I let it try to use the defaults it picked but no joy so I tried picking different options and nothing worked. I have nearly all the wireless stuff in the repo installed and nothing works. I only added two apps that weren't installed by default.

Below are the stats fore the wireless card

Identification
Vendor: ‎Broadcom Corporation

Description: ‎BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN

Media class: ‎Network controller

Connection
Bus: ‎PCI Express

PCI domain: ‎0

Bus PCI #: ‎11

PCI device #: ‎0

PCI function #: ‎0

PCI revision: ‎0x01

Vendor ID: ‎0x14e4

Device ID: ‎0x4311

Sub vendor ID: ‎0x1028

Sub device ID: ‎0x0007

Misc
Module: ‎wl

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Re: Need help finding wireless driver
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2010, 12:03:44 AM »
The error message is unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver) It picking the Broadcom device by default

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Re: Need help finding wireless driver
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 12:12:36 AM »

what kernel are you using? one way of finding out is by opening the terminal and type "uname -r"
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Re: Need help finding wireless driver
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2010, 12:14:54 AM »
I had a quick look. You need, using ndiswrapper, the Windows driver.
Brows to the medium where you got it (the Windows installer CD i.a. or download the Windows driver)
Then, when in the folder with driver content, open a konsole.
Become root (su <enter>, password <enter>)
Type: ndiswrapper -i bcmwl6.inf  <enter>   (Yes, bcmwl6 is what I found is the driver .inf flie)

My guess: That will do it!  ;)

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Re: Need help finding wireless driver
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2010, 12:17:19 AM »

what kernel are you using? one way of finding out is by opening the terminal and type "uname -r"

Oopsss ... you beat me here!   :D

I think I read somewhere the driver "should" be in the kernel since 2.6.17.rc2  .. But if it doesn't work ndiswrapper will be our friend.

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Re: Need help finding wireless driver
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2010, 12:21:15 AM »
2.6.32.12-pclos1.bfs wired works but not wireless
2.6.33.7-pclos3.bfs neither wired and wireless worked
didn't try 2.6.32.21-pclos1.bfs

This is also a brand new install of pclos kde 2010 on this laptop

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Re: Need help finding wireless driver
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2010, 12:23:09 AM »
I will try what bicol_willem said

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Re: Need help finding wireless driver
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2010, 10:43:01 AM »
2.6.32.12-pclos1.bfs wired works but not wireless
2.6.33.7-pclos3.bfs neither wired and wireless worked
didn't try 2.6.32.21-pclos1.bfs

This is also a brand new install of pclos kde 2010 on this laptop

The driver is broken in the 33.7 kernel (search the forum for details).  The 33.5 works, IIRC, or use a 32.* kernel...

Offline ka9yhd

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Re: Need help finding wireless driver
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2010, 01:47:17 AM »
The module your looking for is the b43
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