On Wednesday 20 January 2010 00:33:34 Deryk Barker wrote: > John Kapnogiannis wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:53:47 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > >>> Well I checked with both and there isn't any interface for wireless. > >>> Only lo and eth0 for the ethernet. > >>> > >>> J > >> > >> I am not really good with broadcom wireless, but as far as I remember, > >> you have to have a firmware to install, using bcm43xx-fwcutter. > >> Hum... dont get mad at me if I am wrong > >> Thierry > > > > I suppose I don't a firmware cause the card is currently working just > > fine with the previous version of the driver which I kept in a backup. I > > think I should email the maintainer and then file a bug or something. I > > just hoped someone had a clue about this cause I am out of ideas. > > If you are upgrading from and earlier kernel then you should indeed > already have the firmware. > > One thing I ran into several times (although I think some distros have > stopped doing this) was that each new kernel version came with its own > /lib/firmware directory, so the firmware may simply be in the wrong > location. > > Check your logs: if the bcm43xx module has loaded but complains about > missing firware, you might try pointing a find at /lib and looking for it. > > good luck > > deryk > Sorry for the misunderstanding. If you read my first post you will see that I am not using the bc43 driver but the proprietary driver by broadcom (wiki.debian.org/wl). I intend to give it a try with the bc43 but I only posted to this list cause an update of the broadcom-sta-source and broadcom- sta-common packages to a newer version made the wifi interface disappear. I am currently using the older version so I am ok. I just wanted to report this somehow and get advice in case I did something wrong. I just built the module wl again with the updated drivers nothing more, so I think it's a bug
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