From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stuart Longland Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:12:06 +1000 Subject: bcm4312 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E4DC676.6070502@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.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. (Ohh why can't Broadcom just join in with b43 instead of going the lone ranger approach?) 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, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.