Re: bcm4331 firmware installer package

[lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/12/22 lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2011/12/22 lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>:
>>>> I am still a bit confused. (First thanks for the links all of you
>>>> provided, but I have visited those web before).
>>>>
>>>> Here is the thing:
>>>> BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n fit for
>>>> BCM4331              b/g  HT (r1)
>>>>
>>>> What does the 802.11a for?
>>>
>>> Well, your card can operate in 5GHz band (frequencies). But I'm not
>>>  really sure why you ask about this at all.
>>>
>>>  If you want to try experimental BCM4331 support you have to:
>>>  1) Install kernel 3.2-rc3 or newer
>> I have the 3.2.0-rc6
>>>  or
>>>  2) Install compat wireless
>>>
>>>  After that you've do install firmware (check for wiki howto for kernel
>>>  3.2 and newer).
>>
>> after installation of the compat-wireless,
>>
>> from
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmware
>>
>>  # aptitude install firmware-b43-installer
>>
>>
>> Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:015-9) ...
>> Setting up firmware-b43-installer (1:015-9) ...
>> No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation
>> Unsupported device(s) found: PCI id 14e4:4331
>> Aborting.
>>
>> I don't know which part is wrong here.
>
> Your tool is too old (support for BCM4331 is really recent).
sorry, here you mean, which tool?
>
> Just do as I said and use howto for kernel 3.2, not distro-specific
> howto. You nede to install b43-fwcutter and manually download file for
I can't tell the difference. (I really need detailed instructions,
thanks for your patience ahead)

I tried to follow what you said before, with the kernel 3.2-rc6
install the compate-wireless,
but have problem in the following install the firmware-installer.
> firmware extraction.
>
> --
> Rafał