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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: bigpcman on May 14, 2010, 01:18:38 PM

Title: tc2.11 - wpc600n wifi adapter doesn't work - where can I get the "driver" ?
Post by: bigpcman on May 14, 2010, 01:18:38 PM: After trying the usb600n and my wg511 wifi adapters I decided to try the wpc600n adapter. Unfortunately it too fails to work with wicd.

lspci reports:
07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

lsmod shows no driver was loaded. I looked in the firmware tcz and didn't see any drivers for the broadcom 43 series. Poked around using google but didn't find a driver for kernel 2.6.26. Any ideas?
Title: Re: tc2.11 - wpc600n wifi adapter doesn't work - where can I get the "driver" ?
Post by: curaga on May 14, 2010, 02:26:19 PM: Broadcom is currently the worst of the linux wireless chips. The only main player who doesn't play nice, really.

Broadcom firmware is not redistributable, nor do the kernel drivers work with every Broadcom chip. Ndiswrapper would be most likely to work.
Title: Re: tc2.11 - wpc600n wifi adapter doesn't work - where can I get the "driver" ?
Post by: Juanito on May 14, 2010, 02:35:49 PM: Does it work with the wl extension?
Title: Re: tc2.11 - wpc600n wifi adapter doesn't work - where can I get the "driver" ?
Post by: bigpcman on May 14, 2010, 05:07:52 PM: Quote from: Juanito on May 14, 2010, 02:35:49 PM
Does it work with the wl extension?

Tried the following with no joy...

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tc@box:~$ sudo modprobe lib80211_crypt_tkip tc@box:~$ sudo modprobe lib80211_crypt_wep tc@box:~$ sudo modprobe lib80211_crypt_ccmp tc@box:~$ sudo modprobe wl tc@box:~$ lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P wl 1227948 0 lib80211_crypt_ccmp 3004 0 lib80211_crypt_wep 1664 0 lib80211_crypt_tkip 5492 0 lib80211 1948 4 wl,lib80211_crypt_ccmp,lib80211_crypt_wep,lib80211_crypt_tkip vfat 5652 1 fat 29692 1 vfat squashfs 11732 41 scsi_wait_scan 260 0 pcmcia 13964 0 firmware_class 3188 1 pcmcia yenta_socket 13336 4 rsrc_nonstatic 5744 1 yenta_socket 3c59x 24700 0 parport_pc 18352 0 battery 5976 0 pcmcia_core 16976 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic parport 18768 1 parport_pc ac 1732 0 tc@box:~$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. dummy0 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. tc@box:~$ sudo wicd-start tc@box:~$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. dummy0 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions.
Also rebooted and tried ndiswrapper without success as follows ...
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tc@box:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -i /mnt/sda1/bcmwl5.inf installing bcmwl5 ... tc@box:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -l modprobe: not supported bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4328) present tc@box:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -m modprobe: not supported adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.conf ... tc@box:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper tc@box:~$ lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P ndiswrapper 107780 0 vfat 5652 1 fat 29692 1 vfat squashfs 11732 45 scsi_wait_scan 260 0 pcmcia 13964 0 firmware_class 3188 1 pcmcia yenta_socket 13336 4 rsrc_nonstatic 5744 1 yenta_socket 3c59x 24700 0 pcmcia_core 16976 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic parport_pc 18352 0 battery 5976 0 parport 18768 1 parport_pc ac 1732 0 tc@box:~$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. dummy0 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. tc@box:~$ wicd-start mkdir: can't create directory '/var/run/dbus': Permission denied cp: can't create directory '/etc/wicd': Permission denied Root privileges are required for the daemon to run properly. Exiting. tc@box:~$ sudo wicd-start tc@box:~$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. dummy0 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. tc@box:~$
Title: Re: tc2.11 - wpc600n wifi adapter doesn't work - where can I get the "driver" ?
Post by: OldAdamUser2 on May 14, 2010, 06:05:47 PM: I'm curious, bigpcman. Did it work with earlier versions of TC. I'm using 2.8 and when I tried to move to 2.10, I could not longer get my wifi to work. I didn't fight it for long since I am still satisfied with 2.8.
Title: Re: tc2.11 - wpc600n wifi adapter doesn't work - where can I get the "driver" ?
Post by: bigpcman on May 14, 2010, 06:09:21 PM: Quote from: OldAdamUser2 on May 14, 2010, 06:05:47 PM
I'm curious, bigpcman. Did it work with earlier versions of TC. I'm using 2.8 and when I tried to move to 2.10, I could not longer get my wifi to work. I didn't fight it for long since I am still satisfied with 2.8.

No, I have only tried usb600n, wpc600n or the wg511 on tc2.11 and tc3.
Title: Re: tc2.11 - wpc600n wifi adapter doesn't work - where can I get the "driver" ?
Post by: bigpcman on May 14, 2010, 06:54:20 PM: Here's more info on ndiswrapper results:

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tc@box:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -i /mnt/sda1/bcmwl5.inf installing bcmwl5 ... tc@box:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -l modprobe: not supported bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4328) present tc@box:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -m modprobe: not supported adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.conf ... tc@box:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper tc@box:~$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:74:94:8D:7F inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0 TX packets:1032 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:872732 (852.2 KiB) TX bytes:245289 (239.5 KiB) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8c00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)dmseg ...
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eth0: setting full-duplex. ndiswrapper version 1.54 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no) usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper tc@box:~$