Broadcom driver

[Terry Polzin]

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:39 -0400, Jim wrote:
> On 10/21/2010 03:25 PM, Terry Polzin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:18 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 14:39 -0400, Jim wrote:
> >>> fedora 13
> >>>
> >>> I have a Broadcom wireless installed on a Dell Inspiron Mini 1210 and it
> >>> shows the b43 and ssb driver in lsmod,
> >>> Wireless card not working.
> >>>
> >>> Shouldn't it be the kmod-wl package that makes the card work ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g
> >>> LP-PHY (rev 01)
> >>>           Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card
> >>>           Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
> >>>           Memory at f0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> >>>           Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
> >>>           Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78<?>
> >>>           Capabilities: [e8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> >>>           Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
> >>>           Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
> >>>           Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
> >>>           Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 3b-ac-fe-ff-ff-ba-c4-17
> >>>           Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting<?>
> >>>           Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
> >>>           Kernel modules: ssb
> >>>
> >> Have you loaded the firmware??
> >>
> >>
> > bcm43xx-fwcutter.i686  package google for all that needs to be done, my mind isn't there right now.
> >
> >
> >
> I have installed
> 
> b43-fwcutter
> b43-openfwwf
> b43-tools
Ultimate goal is to have a /lib/firmware/b43 directory (populated) once
you have that, reboot.