I have hp 6715b. And at first wen I installed linux recognize wireless device. But wasn't drivers for it. So it was impossible to load it. And even it managed to load it, device was unusable. I all the time switch it off manually. But now even lspci can't see device.
Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance.

According to this, the bcm43xx wireless does not work.

I'd try using ndiswrapper as suggested in the link above.
see http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...re:ndiswrapper for slackware install notes

to get a broadcomm wireless working you need to use ndiswrapper and install the windows drivers for it...
its not hard and works great....
i have used ndiswrapper on a hp laptop, with sled10, it was a bit of pleasure showing off but you will have to search for whats appropriate for your distro, as i found the best guide on ubuntu forums for what i was doing(remember not to use sudo if your not using ubuntu..lol..)

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-644808.html

this is one of the links that i used for info, cant find the other one

But, it's not what I mean something different.


00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7914
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7915
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b6)
02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 02)
10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)



Idea is is there is no line about wireless. But before was.
"30:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02)"
This line is gone

as i pointed out, install ndiswrapper...
bcom wireless chips need a control driver from the xp driver set...
linux may find the wireless or may not...
with the compaq i setup, it was not listed till i installed ndiswrapper and the driver, then it was completely there like it should have been...
I read a little about broadcomm chips and it seems they are a little quirky, but work well...
according to what i read, they even recon that when vista stops working with them(or stops even recognising that they are there), that you install the xp drivers to fix it...
i used the latest bcomm driver set for the laptop i was installing to, and it worked fine...but trying the basic driver file, it was a bit iffy, there one minute, gone the next..seems that you need the latest and need to blacklist the earlier driver...
but as i have just said, bcomm wireless is weird, but does work well...

I'd look into updating your kernel.
The latest stable linux kernel 2.6.24, has added support for your wireless card.

deroB Thank you for advice. But then again I'll be with GlMesa video driver. Or is good ATI driver for x1200 series AGP aka RS690 chip?