Return-path: Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:48182 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753749Ab1LVIpw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:45:52 -0500 Received: by qadc12 with SMTP id c12so4213485qad.19 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:45:51 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4EF21983.1020107@broadcom.com> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:45:49 +0800 Message-ID: (sfid-20111222_094556_187887_75B17A15) Subject: Re: bcm4331 firmware installer package From: lina To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Rafa=B3_Mi=B3ecki?= 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: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > 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). sorry, here you mean, which tool? > > 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 I can't tell the difference. (I really need detailed instructions, thanks for your patience ahead) I tried to follow what you said before, with the kernel 3.2-rc6 install the compate-wireless, but have problem in the following install the firmware-installer. > firmware extraction. > > -- > Rafał