* b43 driver
@ 2016-04-19 3:45 Van Snyder
2016-04-19 14:39 ` Larry Finger
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From: Van Snyder @ 2016-04-19 3:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
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)?
Thanks,
Van
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* b43 driver
2016-04-19 3:45 b43 driver Van Snyder
@ 2016-04-19 14:39 ` Larry Finger
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From: Larry Finger @ 2016-04-19 14:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
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
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