Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:61161 "EHLO mail-wi0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753215Ab1LVIev convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:34:51 -0500 Received: by wibhm6 with SMTP id hm6so2374915wib.19 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:34:50 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4EF21983.1020107@broadcom.com> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:34:50 +0100 Message-ID: (sfid-20111222_093455_035499_0F67785D) Subject: Re: bcm4331 firmware installer package From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: lina Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Debian Lists , "b43-dev@lists.infradead.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2011/12/22 lina : > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> 2011/12/22 lina : >>> 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). 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 firmware extraction. -- Rafał