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I am not seeing my wireless interface when I execute ifconfig |
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Sent from my iPhone |
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> On Apr 15, 2015, at 1:58 AM, "Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)" <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> wrote: |
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>> On 2015-04-15, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <herminio.hernandezjr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. < |
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>> herminio.hernandezjr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> I am having issues with getting wireless to work on my iBook G4. I have |
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>>> followed the FAQ and installed the b43-fwcutter tool then I downloaded and |
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>>> extracted the firmware. Normally in Debian and Ubuntu I would run the |
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>>> command sudo modprobe b43 to wireless working. However I cannot get it |
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>>> work. I have verified the kernel modules are configured correctly. I am not |
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>>> sure what else I am missing. |
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> How are you checking if the wireless is working? |
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> Does the card show up in "ifconfig -a"? |
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> I think that, nowadays, you're supposed to install b43-firmware, which |
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> will pull in b43-fwcutter. But, as far as you get the firmware, I guess |
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> it should be enough... |
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>> Here is more info |
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>> rican-linux@ibookG4-gentoo ~ $ sudo lspci -vvn|grep 43 -A7 |
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>> Password: |
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>> 0001:10:12.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02) |
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> ... except that you have a BCM4318. There's at least one report of the |
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> latest version of the broadcom firmware not working that well with |
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> BCM4318, |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541080 |
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> (Unfortunately, https://bugs.gentoo.org/ appears to be down right now.) |
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> -- |
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> Nuno Silva |
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> Helsinki, Finland |
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