Re: dell inspiron 600m broadcom truemobile wifi in debian sid

[Guillaume <silencer@free-4ever.net>]

L.V.Gandhi a écrit :
> I was having sid working wifi. Now I reinstalled sid. Now wifi is not 
> working. I am now finding bcm43xx module is loaded most probably by 
> udev/hal. It creates eth1 wifi device. I have previously made 
> ndiswrapper and it was working wpa-psk key system.
> now also
>
> lvgdell600m:/var/log# lsmod|grep ndis
> ndiswrapper           163952  0
> usbcore               112580  6 ndiswrapper,hci_usb,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
>
> lvgdell600m:/var/log# ndiswrapper -l
> Installed drivers:
> bcmwl5          driver installed, hardware present
>
> lvgdell600m:/var/log# cat /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
> alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
>
> but when I try
> lvgdell600m:/var/log# iwconfig wlan0 essid MT841
> Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device
>
> is it caused by bcm43xx module? if so is it better to remove bcm34xx and 
> work with ndiswrapper.
> How to remove bcm43xx
>
> Or work with bcm43xx. If so how to make wpasupplicant work with it. my 
> router is using wpa-psk key for clients.
>
> --
> L.V.Gandhi
> http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ <http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/>
> linux user No.205042

Hi,

The bcm43xx is working nice for me... i have a BCM4306.

The only thing is that you need the firmware from Windows driver.
You have to use fwcutter (there is a debian package) to extract the 
firmware.
Then place all extracted fw files in /lib/firmware

Regards
Guillaume


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