Re: Broadcom 4318

["David Gasa Castell" <dgasacas7@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Mr. Yoanis,

2006/10/30, Yoanis Gil Delgado <fred@uh.cu>:
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:34, David Gasa Castell wrote:
> > Hi colleagues,
> >
> > Precisely, I have a problem a bit similar of that of Mr. Adhyas Avasthi.
> > In my casde, I noted that, on my laptop which works under linux kernel
> > 2.6.18 (Debian Sid), the Broadcom 4318 wifi card is natively
> > supported.
> > But, indeed, I don't reach that it runs.
> >
> > Doing dmesg, I obtain,
> >
> > # dmesg | grep bcm43xx
> > bcm43xx driver
> > bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2
> > bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
> > bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled
> > bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, disabled
> > bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243, enabled
> > bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled
> > bcm43xx: PHY connected
> > bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 2, Revision 7
> > bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 8)
> > bcm43xx: Radio turned off
> > bcm43xx: Radio turned off
> >
> >
> > ... Radio turned off ?? Core 1.. disabled ??
> > What's that ?
> I get a similar report, but it works just fine (as well as ndiswrapper). The
> only issue i had was the firmware but i stole it from my windows
> partition(yes i know, but Windows is so cool for playing some neat games).
> I'm running Debian Sid with kernel 2.6.17-2-686 and my laptop is a Compaq
> Presario 2500.

If you mean the update of BIOS, I think that in my case (HP Compaq nx
6125) it is only available under M$ Window$... Do You any way to
update it under GNU/Linux ?? Is it possible ??

> > Moreover, doing iwconfig the eth1 interface is set up instead of wlan0
> > (that doesn't appear)
> Take a look at this file and you will see why this is
> happening:/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
> but that shouldn't be a problem.

Oh !, I see. So..., should I connect the wifi card of my laptop by
interface eth0 instead wlan0 ?

Thanks again for your observations.

David
> >
> > How can I do ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > David
>
>
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