How to install Broadcom STA driver on Puppy 5

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davids45
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#21 Post by davids45 »

G'day piratesmack,

Thank you for the delta for Lupu-5.20. I have just made the modified .iso into a Windows executable (via the Puppy Windows Installer) and installed this onto my new Samsung laptop with its Broadcom wireless chip. Now with 5.20, I can find my home wireless network.

The Samsung previously had resisted my efforts to get a Puppy to find the Broadcom wireless module, let alone connect, leaving me only with Windows 7 as a means of wireless connectivity. So a pretty restricted, if not useless new computer.

Now encouraged by your delta, I'll try harder to get the other Windows-installed Pups on this Samsung to use the STA driver you've made available in several .pet versions.

Again, many thanks.

David S.

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#22 Post by piratesmack »

davids45, thanks for testing.

If requested, I can create delta files for other Puppies.
I'll probably create some for the upcoming Quirky 1.5 and Puppy 5.2.1 releases, since I'll be using those.

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broadcom_sta driver in lupu 5.25 on HP mini 2140

#23 Post by zamah »

Hi Piratesmack!

Thanks for all your posts concerning Broadcom wireless driver. I really loved all your endeavours to have it functioned.

I am completely new user of Puppy Linux although I have been using
UBUNTU for more that a year. I tried many distros and eventually found
Puppy which impressed me a lot.

I downloaded 5.25 and after installing it to my HP 2140 mini faced a
problem with setting Wi-Fi up.

Searching the net I came across your detailed How-To and appreciated it
so much. I managed to install 'broadcom_sta-5.6.48.36-i486.pet' by
following this instruction:

Instructions:
1) Install package
2) Blacklist b43/ssb
3) Restart computer

After that I got eth1 visible.

The eth1 is now active and finds all Wi-Fi nets around me. I use Ad-Hoc
at home between host computer (UBUNTU lucid) and my laptop with the
same OS which has been working perfectly for many months. The net uses
WEP encryption and automatic DHCP so I just pick right net from the air
by my netbook and enter WEP key to let it work immediately.

However, after loading Puppy on my HP2140 from the flash drive and
setting wireless up web browser doe not connect to any hosts. Network
indicator also does not show any activity.

Also what made me surprised the following commands return warnings

modprobe -r wl
modprobe wl

I see something like:

"WARNING: Deprecating config .... /etc/modepr..." (I do not remember the message exactly)

By the way I created and burned ISO 'lupu-525_bcmwlmod.iso'. I also
tried to install lupu-511, but every time Wi-Fi did not work although
it was visible in the list of available nets at my place.

I would appreciate your assistance so much in finding solution.

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Re: broadcom_sta driver in lupu 5.25 on HP mini 2140

#24 Post by piratesmack »

Hi zamah,

The first thing I'd try is Frisbee network manager
A pet for lupu can be downloaded from here.

If that doesn't work, what is the output of the following command?

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lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
That should tell me what broadcom device you have.

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#25 Post by zamah »

Hi Piratesmak!

Many thanks for your response.

1) The code

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 lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 
returns the following:

08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01)

2) I installed Frisbee network manager as you suggested. Great! It worked very well until first reboot. Then I could not extablish connection again although I saw my Wi-Fi Ad-Hoc net in the list.

I ran

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rmmod ssb
It worked OK so that I understood that ssb module had been loaded although I blacklisted it. I guessed there was a conflict between ssb and wl. It was hard for me to find a way to black list it manually in some system files so I decided to use your lupu-525_bcmwlmod.iso to start from the very beginning.

I made the following:

a) Burned new booteble USB with patched ISO;
b) Made fresh system install;
c) Installed broadcom_sta-5.6.48.36-i486.pet;
d) Installed Frisbee-beta-2-lucid52.pet;
f) Ran Frisbee, chose my Ad-Hoc, made new net profile, entered my password, saved new net profile.

That's all! Wi-Fi started working immediately. I worked few hours with no disconnection. Then I rebooted the laptop few times, but everytime Frisbee established workable connection right away after booting into the system. I confirm that this way the wireless works very well on my HP 2140 mini.

Once again, thank you Piratesmack for your accuracy and knowledge.

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#26 Post by piratesmack »

Great! Glad it works now.

One thing, though. You don't need to install the broadcom_sta .pet with my patched iso.
It already has the driver built-in.

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#27 Post by zamah »

Exactly!

I mentioned c) Installed broadcom_sta-5.6.48.36-i486.pet; in the list by mistake. I did not do that in fact...

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#28 Post by SimpleWater »

You fixed my wifi troubles, but i could not have done this without the.scarecrow's step by step instructions. Many thanks to both

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#29 Post by john3voltas »

Greetings.
I have an Asus 1015PEM netbook computer that needs this driver.
I have it installed under Puppy 5.2.5 and it's working great (installed via PET) even without blacklisting b43.
My question is: can I use this PET package in Puppeee 4.3?
I'd say I can't, right? Probably because kernel version is not the same.
Just making sure, because I ain't an experienced Linux user ;).
Cheers

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#30 Post by rjbrewer »

john3voltas wrote:Greetings.
I have an Asus 1015PEM netbook computer that needs this driver.
I have it installed under Puppy 5.2.5 and it's working great (installed via PET) even without blacklisting b43.
My question is: can I use this PET package in Puppeee 4.3?
I'd say I can't, right? Probably because kernel version is not the same.
Just making sure, because I ain't an experienced Linux user ;).
Cheers
Try Puppeee and see if it works; it is designed for eee netbooks
after all.

Different kernels may, or may not be a guide to wireless connectivity.

Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs

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#31 Post by john3voltas »

Hi rjbrewer,

I've tried puppeee already and I couldn't make my wifi work.
So I guess I need to install the Broadcom STA driver.
Would be nice if in the future puppeee would add this driver automatically.
Do you think I can install this driver in puppeee using this pet file (just as I did in puppy 5.2.5)?

Cheers

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#32 Post by rjbrewer »

john3voltas wrote:Hi rjbrewer,

I've tried puppeee already and I couldn't make my wifi work.
So I guess I need to install the Broadcom STA driver.
Would be nice if in the future puppeee would add this driver automatically.
Do you think I can install this driver in puppeee using this pet file (just as I did in puppy 5.2.5)?

Cheers
It's easy to try a .pet just by clicking on it.
If it doesn't work, click on it in the ppm (package manager) to
remove it.

Puppeee has threads in the forum and it's own web site.
Maybe the 4.4 beta version has the right drivers for you.

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy44

Oops, that's puppy 4.4 which I think is also made by Jemimah,
the builder of Puppeee? Latest Puppeee beta?

Google for Puppeee broadcom.

Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs

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#33 Post by piratesmack »

john3voltas wrote: My question is: can I use this PET package in Puppeee 4.3?
I'd say I can't, right? Probably because kernel version is not the same.
No, probably not.

The driver would need to be rebuilt using Puppeee's kernel source.
I don't have an eeepc, but I'll see if I can get puppeee to boot in a VM and build you a pet package. edit: sorry, couldn't get it to boot

Btw, Fluppy has the broadcom driver preinstalled

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#34 Post by john3voltas »

piratesmack wrote:No, probably not.
The driver would need to be rebuilt using Puppeee's kernel source.
That's what I thought.
Btw, Fluppy has the broadcom driver preinstalled
But Fluppy has no Eee support. :(
BTW, what exactly is the difference between Puppy and Puppeee?
I'm willing to use any Puppy that has Eee support AND the Broadcom STA driver. What should I do?
TIA
Cheers

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#35 Post by piratesmack »

Hmm... give this a try:
http://puppeee.com/files/Drivers/wl_5.60.48.36-atom.pet

I found it while searching Jemimah's server for the Puppeee kernel source (which I couldn't find for 2.6.33.2atom)

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#36 Post by john3voltas »

Hi piratesmack,
Would that pet be broadcom sta driver for puppeee?
Cheers

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#37 Post by piratesmack »

john3voltas wrote:Hi piratesmack,
Would that pet be broadcom sta driver for puppeee?
Cheers
Yes, I think it is

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#38 Post by jason.b.c »

i have followed all instructions here and i still don't have wireless..

see my thread here.... http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72173


any advice????
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#39 Post by registereduser »

i could not get any of this to work :?

i download puppy linux "racy" and installed it to a flash drive
then installed truecrypt
then vlc
then was going to install broadcom wi-fi drivers but it said there is none in the software list. :cry:

so I found this forum, download the .pet file, ran it. the installer said it installed to the system menu, but there is nothing new in the system menu and the wi-fi light is off, and no data goes through.

i don't know how to black list or anything, and modprobe was telling me

rmmod ssb
ERROR: module ssb does not exist in /proc/modules

modprobe -r wl

FATAL: module wl not found.

modprobe wl

FATAL module wl not found

it's been 8 hours and I cant get it to work, it's 4:30 am so i am going to sleep. goodnight :(

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#40 Post by mgh »

Has anyone figured hoe to make the broadcom work with Racy Puppy?
I have a Dell Studio with a broadcom card. The card shows up in the network configuration screen, but it cannot establish a connection.

I can tell I am not the only one that is having problems with this card.

A laptop with no wireless isn't worth much :)

Thanks for any help.

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