BCM4312 and Slackware 12.1 RC1
Hi,
I have just taken delivery of my second hand Dell D520 laptop and I am waiting for Slackware 12.1 RC1 to install. I have an old linux distro on it at the moment just to see if all works well and lspci reports the wireless as BCM4312 (01). With the kernel 2.6.24.4 should it just run or will I need firmware as well? Andrew |
Woooo hooooo! Got the wireless working on the D520 using 2.6.24-12 and the firmware from linuxwireless.org. Looking forward to doing the same with slackware :-)
Andrew |
Wait..Slackware 12.1 RC1 was released?, when?
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Oops, as usual I am less than clear:
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Andrew |
Here's a read of the Slackware -current ChangeLog.txt:
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Perhaps Pat will add the V4 firmware, which must be installed separately using b43-fwcutter, into Slackware has he's added firmware for other devices. |
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Yes, therefore, that firmware won't be added. Also, I hear that the b43 driver has other problems.
I guess we're one step closer to 12.1 RC1: Code:
mingdao@james:~$ cat /etc/slackware-version |
From part of the changelog dated Wed Mar 19 19:34:38 CDT 2008
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[edit] I would also guess that I have to use the b43 driver, because my chipset is both b/g, according to linuxwireless.org... Quote:
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It's also built on top of the far more robust mac80211 stack, rather than softmac (softmac's authors freely admit that softmac was a hack to get bcm43xx into the kernel in the short-term until mac80211 was added). So I'd actually encourage as many people as possible to dump bcm43xx - it's abandoned, unsupported, and has known problems that will never be fixed (it's already scheduled for deletion in 2.6.26). Quote:
b43legacy: BCM4301 BCM4303 BCM4306 (pre rev 3) b43: Everything else. |
I have no Broadcom chips, but quoted a reliable source about
the b43 module. He also said he only gets a 1M rate from it. So while b43 might obviously be better than it's predecessors, it apparently "has other problems", at least for some people. Thanks for posting which chipsets should use the legacy driver. |
From lspci...
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03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) |
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I got tired of trying and trying with the b43 module or the ssb module and firmware. My only salvation was ndiswrapper :) |
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