Hi! Just got the WLAN working with two of my mini laptops (great!). Been having problems with these Broadcom chips. But now with the firmware-brcm80211 non-free package things work just fine (hope there will be open source version too some day).
Anyways, before installing I noticed in the Debian package site that this package has weird chip name in the description: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/firmware-brcm80211 "This package contains the binary firmware for wireless network cards with the Broadcom BCM4314, BCM43224 or BCM43225 chip, supported by the brcm80211 driver." I think it should be "...BCM4313", not "BCM4314"? Aptitude gives the same info (guess its exactly the same text in both): [23:10 araneus@sabrina:downloads]$ aptitude show firmware-brcm80211 Package: firmware-brcm80211 New: yes State: not installed Version: 0.28 Priority: optional Section: non-free/kernel Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org> Uncompressed Size: 168 k Suggests: initramfs-tools, linux-image Description: Binary firmware for Broadcom 802.11 wireless cards This package contains the binary firmware for wireless network cards with the Broadcom BCM4314, BCM43224 or BCM43225 chip, supported by the brcm80211 driver. Contents: * Broadcom 802.11 firmware, version 610.809.0 (brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) * Broadcom 802.11 firmware header, version 610.809.0 (brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw) Homepage: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git [23:10 araneus@sabrina:downloads]$ Minor thing I guess, but just wanted you guys to know since it was confusing me for a moment :) -- - Jani - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktinal0ujejaan65vyignwmoaxcn...@mail.gmail.com
