Just installed wifi driver, internet is really choppy and I'm not sure why.
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I had a look at the source package b43-fwcutter_015-14.1.debian.tar.gz for Wheezy and in file firmware-b43-installer.postinst, for your card [14e4:4328] it says to use firmware broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2, which is exactly the same used to build the package on Slackware. So I still don't understand this difference in behaviors.
In this page you device is told to have a PHY version N (r2).
In the same page I see as Feature "not working yet":
5GHz for N-PHY cards
So I'd suggest you try again to use the braodcom sta/wl driver instead. Other than that some people recommend to pass the options pio=0 and qos=0 to the driver but I'm not sure that will help for your device.
If you want to try you could use this command as root:
In this page you device is told to have a PHY version N (r2).
In the same page I see as Feature "not working yet":
5GHz for N-PHY cards
So I'd suggest you tray again to use the braodcom sta/wl driver instead.
Hm. perhaps I had the wl module in debian then. I could have sworn it was the b43, because I followed that page's instructions for the b43 and fw cutter. I'm not sure what would have happened.
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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier
Other than that some people recommend to pass the options pio=0 and qos=0 to the driver but I'm not sure that will help for your device.
If you want to try you could use this command as root:
I can't load the module before I blacklist things. Problem is, blacklisting didn't do anything. I set up the file the way it said it should be on the slackbuilds site and it didn't work. File is in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and this is what it looks like:
Files in /etc/modprobe.d should have a name ending in .conf to be scanned. So rename it /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (or /etc/rc.d/blacklist_b43.conf if you prefer, whatever :-) To know more: "man modprobe.d"
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 09-27-2013 at 02:39 AM.
Reason: Better wording.
Files in /etc/modprobe.d should have a name ending in .conf to be scanned. So rename it /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (or /etc/rc.d/blacklist_b43.conf if you prefer, whatever :-) To know more: "man modprobe.d"
Yeah I can't believe I over looked that one. It's almost 0400 on the east coast of North America, so I'll be testing the wl once more later on today and will update the thread accordingly.
Tried to build the wl module but it kicked back an error. I can't understand the error, so I'll be posting it *HERE* in just a moment. If you don't see it hyperlinked, try again in a few minutes.
You could spare yourself some hassle simply using the kernel shipped with Slackware-14.0. I did that and had no problem building the driver and inserting it.
But don't forget to run as root "depmod -a" after installation.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 09-27-2013 at 03:23 PM.
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