From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 09:39:42 -0500 Subject: b43 driver In-Reply-To: <1461037534.26856.24.camel@van.vsnyder> References: <1461037534.26856.24.camel@van.vsnyder> Message-ID: <5716432E.8060603@lwfinger.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On 04/18/2016 10:45 PM, Van Snyder wrote: > I can't find a b43 driver anywhere. All I can find is advice on how to > use b43-fwcutter and b43-firmware-install. > > I have Scientific Linux 7.2. The wireless is BCM4312. I have b44, > which works fine for the BCM4401-B0. > > I have also gotten advice to use broadcom-wl, and either wl-kmod or > kmod-wl, none of which I can find. > > What do you recommend (other than replacing the wireless network card, > which isn't a card -- it's integrated on the motherboard)? The driver for b43 has been built into the kernel for a very long time, and I test it regularly. You said what distro you use, but not the kernel version, which is much more important. You can get that info from a "uname -r" command. Post the output of that command, and the output from the "dmesg | grep b43" command. From there, we should be able to proceed. It is possible that the on-board wireless has failed. That has happened to a couple of the old laptops that I keep for testing. Larry