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On Saturday 04 August 2007 16:55, Matthew R. Lee wrote: |
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> I'm having problems getting the wifi on my laptop to work. |
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> The laptop is a Compaq Presario V5214ea |
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> The wifi card is a Broadcom 4311 (rev 1) |
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> I've been looking at the Gentoo Wiki page: |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx |
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> The problem I've run into is with the kernel setup (kernel |
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> linux-2.6.21-gentoo-r4) |
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> |
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> Under |
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> Device Drivers --> |
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> Network device support --> |
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> Wireless LAN drivers |
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> "Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support" does not appear. |
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> Has it been removed from the kernel for some reason? Do I need to enable |
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> some other option in order to make this option available? I have enabled |
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> the PCI express support. |
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> |
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> Any clues would be most welcome |
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Try: |
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Location: |
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-> Device Drivers |
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-> Network device support |
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-> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) |
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-> Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) |
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-> Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extension |
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-> Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support (BCM43XX [=m]) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |