bcm4312

[Stuart Longland <redhatter@gentoo.org>]

On 08/19/11 11:26, bendney wrote:
> hello .im installing gentoo ,but the bcm4312 drivers can't work, i m a
> newbie, i follow the documentation         
> 
> emerge ...firmware    ...fwcutter         emerge ...sta  (wl)
>  but there has another guide  say  dont  use  firmware   fwcutter , just
> use sta   what the relationship above ?     how can i do ?

Okay, understood you're a "newbie", but I'm afraid I lost my crystal
ball back in the Brisbane floods.  I can certainly attest that the
drivers do work.

The 'sta' driver IIRC is Broadcom's proprietary driver.  Nothing we can
do to help you with that.  (<rant>Ohh why can't Broadcom just join in
with b43 instead of going the lone ranger approach?</rant>)

What we'll need to know:
- What kernel version are you using?  (`uname -r`, or at the very least
the ebuild you used.  Have a squiz at /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel and see
what directories are present.)
- What Broadcom chip you are using (`lspci -nn`)
- What version of firmware you used?

I found that kernel 3.0 worked best for me with the 802.11N "Airport" in
my 2008-model MacBook using the bleeding edge (not-yet-in-kernel)
fwcutter and firmware.  See:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.bcm54xx.devel/12038/focus=12141

Regards,
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