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From: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:45:27
Message-Id: 200712171039.22548.mcbrides9@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g? by Eduardo Otubo
1 On Monday 17 December 2007 04:30:16 am Eduardo Otubo wrote:
2 > Hello Marzan,
3 >
4 > I have the same wifi card and tryed the same methods to get it working
5 > and nothing. I'am using ndiswrapper right now, just until I can find a
6 > way to make it work. Any news gonna mail our list.
7 >
8 > []'s
9 >
10 > On Dec 13, 2007 6:53 PM, Marzan, Richard non Unisys
11 >
12 > <Richard.Marzan@××××××.com> wrote:
13 > > I'm trying to get my Broadcom 4311 b/g card to work with the native
14 > > kernel driver (bcm43xx) and b43-fwcutter but it's does not work. I placed
15 > > the extracted firmware code in /lib/firmware and dmesg states that it
16 > > failed to load the module. Has anyone gotten this card to work and how?
17 > > Any link or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
18 > >
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21 Works like a charm here. Compaq R3000 using the bcm4306 chipset and bcm43xx
22 module... No real magic involved, but I did write my own initialization
23 script. I could never get the wireless started the "gentoo way".
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25 If you guys like, I can zip up and send you what's in my /lib/firmware
26 directory. Just ask via email.
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