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On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 15:27:48 +0100 |
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Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> what bmc board do you have? try a lspci and tell us what board you |
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> have. some bcm boards do work fine with their native linux driver. |
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On the back of the chip: BCM4311KFBG |
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lspci -nn: |
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03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device |
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4311 [14e4:4311] (rev 02) |
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> 2007/11/4, Unknown <list-catcher@××××××××××.com>: |
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> > |
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> > I decided to join the laptop club and bought a Compaq Presario |
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> > V6420US. |
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> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834147458 |
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> > Call me ancient but I´ve never had wireless ethernet before so it´s |
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> > new to me. I can´t seem to get it working. Initially I tried using |
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> > ndiswrapper but compaq.com gives me file not found for the XP |
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> > drivers. |
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> > Then I tried (as I did not know it existed before) using the |
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> > Broadcom drivers in the linux kernel. This fails too with no |
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> > access points found. dmesg reveals bcm43xx: FATAL ERROR: |
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> > BCM43xx_IRQ_XMIT_ERROR. |
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> > The laptop has a wired ethernet port which works without any |
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> > harassment at all. But it´s a laptop... I don´t want to be plugged |
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> > into anything. |
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> > Searching google reveals that some ubuntu user got it working so I |
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> > know it´s possible. I just don´t know what man page I need to read |
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> > or what documentation I´m missing. If anyone has a clue I´d be |
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> > appreciative. -- |
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> > gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list |
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