Broadcom card totally not visible for system (lspci)

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Tue Mar 30 15:29:23 EDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:02 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 12:48 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> > On 03/30/2010 12:31 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is this possible it's disabled in BIOS by default and needs execution
> > > of some ACPI command or sth to make it work?
> > > 
> > > Yeah, trying to find some other reason than faulty WiFi... It's weird
> > > it was working fine "before a moment" on Windows.
> > 
> > Winblows can fiddle with the "Wake-on-LAN" setting in the BIOS, but AFAIK, the
> > BCM4306 does not have this capability. If the BIOS has that setting, it should
> > be turned off.
> 
> Perhaps it's a crazy idea, but what if the Ethernet device and the WiFi
> device are connected to the same SSB bus, an thus sharing the PCI ID?

Should be fine, actually, since b43 binds the 802.11 ssb core.

johannes




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