Re: Installing a Broadcom 4312 rev 02 wifi card

[kishore <kishore@vodafone.it>]

Machiner has wrote a nice tutorial at

www.debiantutorials.org

Please read also the comments. I resolved atleast a dozen laptops (HP,
Acer & Compaq) with similar problems following his guides...

Kishore



On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 09:09 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Celejar wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:46:06 +0100
> > Korrignu <korrignu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> hi,
> >> i have some problems since i bought my new laptop
> >> in fact i have a wifi card with a briadcom 4312 rev 02 chipset
> >> and i don't know how to set up
> >> i installed b43-fwcutter and then i load b43 module
> >> but nothing happens
> >> no new wireless interface etc...
> >>
> >> so i don't know if this chipset is supported by the b43 module
> >>
> >> if i install the broadcom STA/wl module, it works asa long as i don't
> >> want to use a WPA-EAP with TTLS wifi network
> >> because this lead to a kernel panic ...
> >>
> >> have I somebody already installed this kind of wifi card ? and how ?
> >> or have sombedy have some informations to do that ?
> >>     
> >
> > The 4312 is listed as supported:
> >
> > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#supported
> >
> > Post the relevant dmesg excerpt and lspci output.
> >
> > Celejar
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> >   
> I have this card in an HP 8000dv and it has never worked without 
> ndiswrapper.  That doesn't even work anymore.  I don't know if the XP 
> drivers were updated or not but b43-fwcutter always told me the firmware 
> wasn't correct now no matter which driver I chose just before I finally 
> dumped the card. 
> 
> It was a lousy card to begin with.  Reception was very poor even using 
> ndiswrapper and it would drop the connection at least once an hour.  
> Every usb wifi card I tried reported far better signal strength from the 
> same position and so did the Intel mini-pci cards.  None of them dropped 
> connections either.  My advice, if you have the money to spend, is just 
> get another card such as one of the intel mini-pci cards that fit into 
> the same slot in the motherboard.  They work much better and report much 
> better signal strength. 
> 
> I know some people got 4312 card to work, but in my hardware 
> configuration it never did work right.   With ndiswrapper I couldn't use 
> any security and with the open source driver it just plain old didn't 
> work at all. 
> 
>