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tiziano

Member

Registered: 2014-09-09

Posts: 92

Broadcom BCM4318 no wifi

I'm testing a cooking 5.0 Live USB. I got automatically the ethernet connex but I'm getting in troubles in having the wifi working. Checking the pc, an old HP compaq nc4200, discovered the needed driver was to be found in the linux wireless page: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Once checked for my PC-ID which is  14e4:4318  followed the firmware installation guide for 'other distribution not mentioned above'

by installing the b43-fwcutter was stuck and got following reply:

[qte]

root@slitaz:/home/tux# wget http://bues.ch/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-018.tar.bz2

http://bues.ch/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-018.tar.bz2.asc

Connecting to bues.ch (80.190.117.144:80)

wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

root@slitaz:/home/tux# wget http://bues.ch/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-018.tar.bz2

http://bues.ch/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-018.tar.bz2.asc

Connecting to bues.ch (80.190.117.144:80)

wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

root@slitaz:/home/tux#

[unqte]

tryed with the linux-wireless packages with no success either.

in several posts found in the forum archive did not find better solution for my particular case.

Any of the experienced ones has an hint?

Thank you

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Broadcom BCM4318 no wifi

The b43 driver is in the repo

# tazpkg -gi b43-fwcutter

May be this post can help you

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/wifi-nao-conecta-broadcom-b4318#post-23946

sixofeight

Member

Registered: 2013-07-02

Posts: 234

Re: Broadcom BCM4318 no wifi

another link

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/rtl8139-on-slittaz-40#post-12328

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,173

Re: Broadcom BCM4318 no wifi

@Ceel

b43-fwcutter is a utility for extracting the broadcomm firmware from the broadcomm closed source driver source code.

http://people.slitaz.org/~mojo/stuff/b43-firmware-4.150.10.5.tazpkg contains the firmware files that were extracted using b43-fwcutter and installs them to /lib/firmware

Wireless kernel driver modules are in the linux-wireless tazpkg

If the user boots a 4-in-1 iso to core or gtkonly flavor in slitaz version 4 or 5 linux-wireless is installed. Slitaz-3.0 release included linux-wireless. Slitaz-2.0 release required installing linux-wireless.

The pre-compiled b43 driver: [c]tazpkg list-files linux-wireless | grep b43.ko[/c]

Slitaz 4 and 5/rolling includes firmware-ralink.

Slitaz 2 and 3 have no firmware.

Any other brand of wifi adapter requiring firmware other than ralink chipsets needs the correct firmware installed before the wireless driver is loaded.

@tiziano

Follow my tutorial in the link given by sixofeight

tiziano

Member

Registered: 2014-09-09

Posts: 92

Re: Broadcom BCM4318 no wifi

@mojo

thanks for the tutorial. Well done. Wifi works now. Problem solved.