On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 03:32:00PM +0200, steef wrote: > > hi list, > > bought my self a hp mini-netbook, included windoze7 and a very > strong accu, 10 hours of life. > > i put sid on an usb-stick, included fluxbox and wicd(-curses). > > wifi = (lspci) brcm4313. (type 5.60.350.6) > > loaded/installed the according the debian broadcom- (broadcom 43xx > wireless drivers) -wiki convenient driver_firmware. the driver > should be included in the sid_kernel, so i understood. however: this > wifi_driver does not work. > > my questions: what did i do wrong if anything (1) ? > > and > > broadcom assued a so-called xxx-STA driver (by google) somebody with > some experience with this brcm4313 driver for linux (tar.gz) does > this one work for my mini_netbook (2) ? > > if i find a working driver i can get rid of w7. >
You need broadcom-sta. Read here http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all&keywords=broadcom-sta # apt-get install broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source module-assistant +make debhelper quilt bzip2 I don't remember how much of the install dpkg does automatically. But I believe you will be using module-assistant. So don't forget sta-source and do all the preliminary steps and downloads within module-assistant. Then select the broadcom-sta module, build and install. Broadcom-STA is an imperfect solution. It's performance has been knonw to vary. It will blacklist a number of modules, disabling your LAN connection. The blacklist will be under /etc/modprob.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf . To use the LAN, I had an alias that moved /etc/modprob.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf to /root then rebooted. And visa-versa. I do have an alternate blacklist file that, in addition, blacklists broadcom but I don't think that was necessary to use the LAN. (It has been awhile.) -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110611215132.GA4954@Deneb.office
