Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:52583 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751137Ab1CKRBD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:01:03 -0500 Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so6057008qyk.19 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:01:02 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <7A94256FD72B884D9E7C55586C3CBCEE15B0286A4E@SJEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> <4D798863.2060303@lwfinger.net> <4D7A3EAD.10306@lwfinger.net> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:00:39 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Status of Broadcom 4353? From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: "Chen, Xianwen" Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Larry Finger , Chaoxing Lin , Brett Rudley Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2011/3/11 Chen, Xianwen : > Thanks a lot Chaoxing, Larry and Rafal, > > I installed the Linux firmware (20110128), as you can see by 'ls > /lib/firmware/brcm/ -l' > >  total 368 >  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269595 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.bin >  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1604 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.txt >  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  97376 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw >  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    180 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw > > However, after rebooting and even after recompiling and rebooting the > kernel, the wireless adapter doesn't yet show up. > > Hence, I decide to give more details on the problem, to see if > something is missing: > > (1) The Dell Latitude E5410 is running Gentoo AMD64 with all packages > up to date. > > (2) The latest 2.6.38-rc8 kernel is used. > > (3) The kernel config can be seen at http://pastebin.com/ExAzLHr8. > > (4) The dmesg is uploaded to http://pastebin.com/wV3Wp54r. > > (5) The output from lspci is at http://pastebin.com/Giqs7kkA. > > Any thoughts, please? 1) Update your pci db (sudo update-pciids) 2) Reboot maybe? I don't know if this is needed for lspci 3) Give us lspci -nn 4) Give us "lsmod | grep brcm80211" 5) Execute: "sudo modprobe brcm80211" 6) Give us "dmesg | grep brcm80211" -- Rafał