Re: broadcom

[Freeman <hewho7@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 03:32:00PM +0200, steef wrote:
> 
> hi list,
> 
> bought my self a hp mini-netbook, included windoze7 and a very
> strong accu, 10 hours of life.
> 
> i put sid on an usb-stick, included fluxbox and wicd(-curses).
> 
> wifi = (lspci) brcm4313. (type 5.60.350.6)
> 
> loaded/installed the according the debian broadcom-  (broadcom 43xx
> wireless drivers)  -wiki convenient driver_firmware. the driver
> should be included in the sid_kernel, so i understood. however: this
> wifi_driver does not work.
> 
> my questions: what did i do wrong if anything (1) ?
> 
> and
> 
> broadcom assued a so-called xxx-STA driver (by google) somebody with
> some experience with this brcm4313 driver for linux (tar.gz) does
> this one work for my mini_netbook (2) ?
> 
> if i find a working driver i can get rid of w7.
> 

You need broadcom-sta.

Read here
http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&suite=all&section=all&keywords=broadcom-sta

# apt-get install broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source module-assistant
+make debhelper quilt bzip2

I don't remember how much of the install dpkg does automatically. But I
believe you will be using module-assistant.  So don't forget sta-source and
do all the preliminary steps and downloads within module-assistant.

Then select the broadcom-sta module, build and install.

Broadcom-STA is an imperfect solution. It's performance has been knonw to
vary.  It will blacklist a number of modules, disabling your LAN connection. 
The blacklist will be under /etc/modprob.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf .

To use the LAN, I had an alias that moved
/etc/modprob.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf to /root then rebooted.  And
visa-versa.

I do have an alternate blacklist file that, in addition, blacklists broadcom
but I don't think that was necessary to use the LAN.  (It has been awhile.)

-- 
Regards,
Freeman

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