bcm43xx
 

I am runnin slack 11.0 2.6.18.3 and i have problems with my wireless card here are outputs from lspci and lsmod:

root@slack:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
bcm43xx 399232 0
ieee80211softmac 22080 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 26184 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 4096 1 ieee80211
pcmcia 26452 0
firmware_class 6784 2 bcm43xx,pcmcia
tsdev 5632 0
joydev 7360 0
yenta_socket 21260 1
rsrc_nonstatic 8128 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 30032 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic


30:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)

seems modules are up but my iwconfig doesnt recognize any wireless devices.

Maybe because the bcm4312 chipset of the Broadcom BCM4310 is not stable with the bcm43xx module. Black list the module and use ndiswrapper;

http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices

From; http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List

# Card Name: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)

* Ndiswrapper version: 1.23
* Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4312
* PCIID: 14e4:4312
* Windows driver location: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe This file can be extracted with cabextract and contains both 32 bits and 64 bits files. (Try: ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf)
* Using Gentoo AMD64 Kernel Version 2.6.17 on a HP Pavilion dv2000