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I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a BCM4311 wireless card, and i've installed b43-fwcutter and firmware, but forget this, please guide me to the right way to install it Slackware 13.1 user here, in Ubuntu worked great with some restricted drivers(bcm43xx as i recall)
Once you have b43-fwcutter compiled and installed (you can check SlackBuilds.org for the SlackBuild script) and the firmaware (let's say it's the broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2), these are the steps:
Code:
1) Unpack the firmware
$ tar xf broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
2) cd to the linux firmware dir
$ cd broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux
3) extract the firmware to the kernel firmware directory
# b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o
4) load (or re-load) the b43 kernel module. In doubt, reboot
# modprobe b43
or
# modprobe -r b43 ; mobprobe b43
And you're done. These instructions are well described in the b43 - Linux Wireless site.
Last edited by rfernandez; 11-13-2010 at 12:51 PM.
i've followed the steps... and everything seems okay, but still no wifi on O_o The led is not lighted up, and wlan0 is shown only in "iwconfig" not in "ifconfig"
Now i've managed to get it on... "ifconfig wlan0 up" :P but i think i need nm-applet now )
CAN'T GET A PROPER WIRELESS MANAGER
Last edited by adonisslanic; 11-14-2010 at 03:18 AM.
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Slackware 13.1 user here, in Ubuntu worked great with some restricted drivers(bcm43xx as i recall)
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