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coreplayer2:
Juanito am curious, will these extensions work (albeit perhaps not as efficiently) with your BCM4312 device??
wl-modules-3.0.21-tinycore &
firmware-broadcom.tcz
or
Am I correct in saying there is a supported driver in 3.0.21-tinycore? If so will it function with firmware-broadcom.tcz ?
or
is the only method available for this specific device to download the firmware from the link provided..?
Just curious..?
Thanks again for the info, have added the data
vinnie:
what firmware I'm using? ???
--- Code: ---tc@box:~$ dmesg | grep -B 2 -A 5 -i firmware
PCI: MMCONFIG at [mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff] reserved in ACPI motherboard resources
PCI: Using MMCONFIG for extended config space
[Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x1c, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
ACPI: No dock devices found.
HEST: Table not found.
PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (domain 0000 [bus 00-ff])
tc@box:~$ dmesg | grep -B 2 -A 5 -i '.bin'
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
tc@box:~$ dmesg | grep -B 2 -A 5 -i '.fw'
asus_wmi: Unknown symbol pci_hp_deregister (err 0)
asus_wmi: Unknown symbol __pci_hp_register (err 0)
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04733/0xa40000/0xa0000
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
input: Microsoft Microsoft�� Comfort Mouse 4500 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input7
generic-usb 0003:045E:076C.0001: input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft�� Comfort Mouse 4500] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input0
usb 3-1: new low speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
tc@box:~$
--- End code ---
Juanito:
--- Quote from: coreplayer2 on March 31, 2012, 05:17:08 AM ---..will these extensions work (albeit perhaps not as efficiently) with your BCM4312 device??
wl-modules-3.0.21-tinycore &
firmware-broadcom.tcz
--- End quote ---
wl-modules-3.0.21-tinycore will work without any additional firmware as long as the boot codes blacklist=bcma blacklist=b43 blacklist=ssb are used. Note that you will need "sudo modprobe wl" as it will not be automatically loaded.
firmware-broadcom will not work with this hardware
--- Quote ---is the only method available for this specific device to download the firmware from the link provided..?
--- End quote ---
To work with the b43 module from wireless-3.0.21-tinycore, yes. It is not required for wl-modules-3.0.21-tinycore (the wl module provides the firmware) or ndiswrapper-modules-3.0.21-tinycore (the windows driver provides the firmware).
Juanito:
Wireless NIC Chip = Broadcom Corporation BCM4331
USB ID =
PCI ID = 14e4:4331
OEM & Model as tested = Apple Inc. Macmini5,3
HW rev = rev 02
Interface = PCI
WLAN standard [802.11] = 802.11a/b/g/n
Frequency Band = 2.4 & 5GHz
Security (1) = WPA2
Tested with kernel = 3.0.21-tinycore64
Tested with Wifi.tcz = N
Required Extensions (2) = wpa_supplicant, user supplied firmware, compat-wireless-3.2.5-1
Notes
Requires Broadcom firmware, see http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Device_firmware_installation
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4331 WLAN found (core revision 29)
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS ]
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
Requires compat-wireless-3.2.5-1, see http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download/stable/#compat-wireless_3.2_stable_releases
Will not work with wl-modules-3.0.21-tinycore, broadcom's driver <cough> does not support this hardware
Will not work with ndiswrapper-modules-3.0.21-tinycore, the windows driver requires a more recent version of ndis than that supplied by ndiswrapper
I am not sure if 802.11a or n or dual simultaneous n is supported by this version of compat-wireless - in any case, my wireless ap does not support 802.11a or dual simultaneous n
Rich:
Hi coreplayer2
Looks like I provided some inadequate commands (again) , the grep syntax I provided ignores punctuation.
One more time
--- Code: ---dmesg | grep -B 2 -A 5 -Fi '.bin'
dmesg | grep -B 2 -A 5 -Fi '.fw'
--- End code ---
This of course presumes that the system knows to request FILENAME.bin before a firmware extension has been
installed. A sample dmesg line when firmware is missing might be helpful, without that I'm just grepping at straws.
The Wiki page is coming together nicely by the way.
@vinnie: Not all cards require or use firmware.
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