Re: bcm4331 firmware installer package

[lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
> W dniu 22 grudnia 2011 09:45 użytkownik lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> napisał:
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2011/12/22 lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 2011/12/22 lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>:
>>>>>> I am still a bit confused. (First thanks for the links all of you
>>>>>> provided, but I have visited those web before).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is the thing:
>>>>>> BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n fit for
>>>>>> BCM4331              b/g  HT (r1)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What does the 802.11a for?
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, your card can operate in 5GHz band (frequencies). But I'm not
>>>>>  really sure why you ask about this at all.
>>>>>
>>>>>  If you want to try experimental BCM4331 support you have to:
>>>>>  1) Install kernel 3.2-rc3 or newer
>>>> I have the 3.2.0-rc6
>>>>>  or
>>>>>  2) Install compat wireless
>>>>>
>>>>>  After that you've do install firmware (check for wiki howto for kernel
>>>>>  3.2 and newer).
>>>>
>>>> after installation of the compat-wireless,
>>>>
>>>> from
>>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmware
>>>>
>>>>  # aptitude install firmware-b43-installer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:015-9) ...
>>>> Setting up firmware-b43-installer (1:015-9) ...
>>>> No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation
>>>> Unsupported device(s) found: PCI id 14e4:4331
>>>> Aborting.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know which part is wrong here.
>>>
>>> Your tool is too old (support for BCM4331 is really recent).
>> sorry, here you mean, which tool?
>>>
>>> Just do as I said and use howto for kernel 3.2, not distro-specific
>>> howto. You nede to install b43-fwcutter and manually download file for
>> I can't tell the difference. (I really need detailed instructions,
>> thanks for your patience ahead)
>>
>> I tried to follow what you said before, with the kernel 3.2-rc6
>> install the compate-wireless,
>> but have problem in the following install the firmware-installer.
>>> firmware extraction.
>
> wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
> tar xjf b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
> cd b43-fwcutter-015
> make
> sudo make install
> cd ..
>
> export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
> wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
> tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
> sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR"  broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
>

Thanks and ?

> --
> Rafał