Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 18:43:34 -0400, David O'Toole wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 21:09 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > I would try to load the module and check the syslog for messages, i.e.
> >
> > modprobe -v b43
> >
> > grep -i b43 /var/log/syslog
> >
>
> monad:/home/dto# modprobe -v b43
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/drivers/input/input-polldev.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random/rng-core.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
> monad:/home/dto#
>
> Sep 11 18:41:06 monad kernel: [17374.556631] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded
> [ Features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
> monad:/home/dto#
> monad:/home/dto# /sbin/iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
Looking at drivers/ssb/main.c, I think there has to be something like
this in the syslog when the ssb module is loaded:
Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 05:00.0
Do you see such a message? If it is absent then the SSB bus is not
recognized on your device.
I am not too optimistic now, because I found a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE in
drivers/ssb/b43_pci_bridge.c which does not include your PCI device ID.
You could try to "modprobe b43_pci_bridge" if it is not loaded already,
but this is grasping at straws.
The general PCI ID table lists two different BCM4312 wlan adapters; it
seems that currently only the one with the device ID 0x4312 is
supported, while yours with the device ID 0x4315 is not.
Check out this link dealing with ndiswrapper:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/bcm4315-card-no-wlan0-device-no-wireless-extensions-621795/
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