Fwd: bcm4331 firmware installer package

[Buck Golemon]

2011/12/22 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
>
> W dniu 22 grudnia 2011 09:45 użytkownik lina <lina.lastname at gmail.com> napisał:
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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).
> > sorry, here you mean, which tool?
> >>
> >> 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
> > I can't tell the difference. (I really need detailed instructions,
> > thanks for your patience ahead)
> >
> > I tried to follow what you said before, with the kernel 3.2-rc6
> > install the compate-wireless,
> > but have problem in the following install the firmware-installer.
> >> firmware extraction.
>
> wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
> tar xjf b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
> cd b43-fwcutter-015
> make
> sudo make install
> cd ..
>
> export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
> wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
> tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
> sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR"
> broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
>

Works for me! Again, this is the first time my wireless has worked!
I nominate this for inclusion on the wiki under heading "Bleeding-edge
kernel quickstart".

Thanks!
-buck