Hello dragon001,
The BCM4318 chipset is known to work with the b43 driver that comes with the Fedora kernel. But it needs firmware. To me, you post suggests that you have not done that step. Maybe. Maybe not. Anyway, if you do need to do that, here is another thread with the steps... http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=211 984 P.S.: Nah, on second thought, I think you do have the ...
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Started 1 month, 3 weeks ago by dragon001
I have a notebook with the above mentioned WLAN Chipset from Broadcom.
I am trying to bring it up since 4 hourse.
tested almost every hack.
But first here some details on the hardware:
uname -a
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uname -a
Linux xxx 2.6.31.5-96.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Oct 23 19:39:36 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
lspci
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00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc ...
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dragon001 replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
I installed the firmware:
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b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
Windows is not installed since an age (i think about 1 or 2 years)
I used ...
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Grizzledude replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=228 418
I know for a fact that this works, I just installed F11 on my Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop which uses the BCM4318 chipset for the wireless card. I just followed the instructions on installing, rebooted, and it came up after I had set the WPA keys.
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stoat replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Okay, here is something else to think about. You installed Fedora 12. That thing is still testing. It's practically normal for stuff to be busted. B43 is a kernel module so it wouldn't exactly make the front pages to discover something about it is busted at this point in Fedora 12's life. Why not install Fedora 11? It's in the middle of its life cycle and has matured into the best Fedora ever for...
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bbfuller replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Interestingly, I installed F12 on my laptop with a broadcom 4318 last evening and the wireless just worked.
It appears that the new open source firmware is included as default in F12, and although it appears only to be reckoned to work on 4306 and 4318 chipsets, for me it's doing very well. Signal strength reported the same as cutting the old b43 firmware.
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stoat replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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Originally Posted by bbfuller
It appears that the new open source firmware is included as default in F12, and although it appears only to be reckoned to work on 4306 and 4318 chipsets, for me it's doing very well.
I read a recent post where AdamW mentioned that, but it didn't register in me what he meant til ...
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bbfuller replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
As I see it, the new open firmware files are in the same:
/lib/firmware/b43
folder.
There are 3 files listed below:
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b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
b0g0initvals5.fw
ucode5.fw
If you have an ordinary b43 machine on 'Stoat' it would be interesting to see if you have the exact same files and therfore if they would be overwritten if ...
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stoat replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
These were extracted from wl_apsta_mimo.o in broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2. I've been using this set since Fedora 9 and have been just copying the b43 folder over to new Fedoras.
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$ ls /lib/firmware/b43
a0g0bsinitvals4.fw a0g1initvals5.fw lp0bsinitvals13.fw pcm5.fw
a0g0bsinitvals5.fw a0g1initvals9.fw lp0bsinitvals14.fw ucode11.fw
a0g0bsinitvals9.fw b0g0bsinitvals13....
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dragon001 replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ok,
i can't check it for the next hours, because i have to reinstall it.
Even with Fedora 11 it didn't work.
I never used ndiswrapper, because of a wpa protected network.
so it would make no sense, because as I know you can't use wpa protection.
so many thanks so far
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bbfuller replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Hello dragon001
It's been a couple of years since I needed to use ndiswrapper with my 4318 card. I've gladly adopted the b43 driver with whatever firmware was used at the time.
However, I'm pretty sure I used my 4318 with ndiswrapper and WPA at that time.
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