bcm4331 firmware installer package

[Rafał Miłecki]

2011/12/22 lina <lina.lastname at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2011/12/22 lina <lina.lastname at gmail.com>:
>>> I am still a bit confused. (First thanks for the links all of you
>>> provided, but I have visited those web before).
>>>
>>> Here is the thing:
>>> BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n fit for
>>> BCM4331              b/g  HT (r1)
>>>
>>> What does the 802.11a for?
>>
>> Well, your card can operate in 5GHz band (frequencies). But I'm not
>>  really sure why you ask about this at all.
>>
>>  If you want to try experimental BCM4331 support you have to:
>>  1) Install kernel 3.2-rc3 or newer
> I have the 3.2.0-rc6
>>  or
>>  2) Install compat wireless
>>
>>  After that you've do install firmware (check for wiki howto for kernel
>>  3.2 and newer).
>
> after installation of the compat-wireless,
>
> from
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmware
>
>  # aptitude install firmware-b43-installer
>
>
> Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:015-9) ...
> Setting up firmware-b43-installer (1:015-9) ...
> No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation
> Unsupported device(s) found: PCI id 14e4:4331
> Aborting.
>
> I don't know which part is wrong here.

Your tool is too old (support for BCM4331 is really recent).

Just do as I said and use howto for kernel 3.2, not distro-specific
howto. You nede to install b43-fwcutter and manually download file for
firmware extraction.

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Rafał