I want to move to Slack, so I took a look around the web to see if it can give support to my wireless card but couldn't find any relevant info.
Is it supported? Can be installed?

Maybe this will help:

http://www.fresco20.com/slacky-diary...slackware-122/

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It should be supported out of the box by the brcm80211 driver in Slackware 13.37, which should be coming soon (until then you can run Slackware-Current)

In 13.1, you can use the Broadcom-STA driver.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.../broadcom-sta/

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Hi,

Slackware 13.1 has support for the BCM43xx chipset. You will need to use b43fw-cutter from SlackBuilds to get the firmware. The b43-fwcutter (013) page has instructions and all the necessary links.

Configuring your network in Slackware is Alien_Bob's excellent article on the way network cards are configured in Slackware. Loads of internal reference links for Ethernet & Wireless.

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Hi,

I have several laptops with BCM43XX and the STA is a pain. Plus not reliable when I used it with the bcm4312 (14e4:4312) for a Dell 1501. Depending on your device ID, you might not experience problems.

If you do decide to move to '-current' remember it is development and not recommended on production machines since experimental (see CURRENT.WARNING ).

You could wait for 13.37! Look at the ChangeLogs.

According to this, the BCM4313 isn't yet supported by b43. Only wl (Broadcom STA) and brcm80211

Thanks everyone for all the info.
I am installing slackware right now, then I'll try to install the card. Maybe tomorrow I'll post the results.

To get the brcm80211 driver, you might need to recompile your kernel (>= 2.6.37) or get compat-wireless-2.6 on Linux Wireless. BCM4313 (14e4:4727) is not supported by b43.

Hi,

My bad!

I was thinking PCI:ID. I hate it when the PCI:ID and the chipset ID do not align, darn HEX. Sorry to the OP.

Why not use:
http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/

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Pity they couldn't have included support for the 4312 series in that driver. I tried compiling the STA from slackbuilds with 2.6.37.3 kernel and it fails. It was no problem with 13.1. I'll see what happens with 2.6.37.4. With Poulsbo video finally supported I thought my aspire one netbook would be an easy install now video works right and I have to struggle with the wireless again

The SlackBuild was just updated for kernel 2.6.37+ a few days ago.

Make sure you have the latest version:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.../broadcom-sta/

Hi,

I was able to get the driver from Broadcom to work but not continuous. It would fail or drop at times for my (14e4:4312 rev 01) which was being recognized as a (14e4:4311 rev 02). Look at 'Slackware 13.0 RC2 X86_64 Broadcom bcm4312 problems'. If memory serves me right, I believe that Dell 1501's had several versions for chipsets depending on manufacture date.

Slackware 13.1 & '-current' have properly recognized my chipset on this laptop. Still need to cut the firmware. Go figure! Really bugged me for a while to have these issues. For 13.1;
I will load 13.37 since my '-current' is rather dated and I want to load the RC1 anyway. I keep several partitions as 'spare' to do some experimenting. I need to keep my original install intact for client work. I've got a another toy, CQ60 to play with.

Took me a while to figure out that my new Broadcom 43225 was actually eth1 using broadcom-sta. But it works fine.

I can't do much right now. Gotta go make some money. But I'll have a play and come back with what I find out.