connect with Broadcom B43 wireless

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highway_man
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connect with Broadcom B43 wireless

#1 Post by highway_man »

Precise 5.4.2 on AMD Athalon XP Processor 3000+ 798MHz 513Mb RAM
I don't know what a PET is. I don't know what a kernel is. Complete. Linux. Noobie.

I have a Broadcom B43 (lspci = B4306) internal wireless wifi card. I managed to load the b43-firmware-LP-PHY.pet on the computer with the OS. Somehow, I was able to 'see' the wireless networks, but unable to connect. Really not sure what changed. Now, I cannot even see the wireless networks. I have been able to blacklist b43, ssb, and b43+ssb to no avail. wlan0 is still there, but b43 & b43legacy both give me an error.

Now, when I scan for wireless, I get the error:
Failed to raise interface wlan0.
Failed command was: ifconfig wlan0 up.
Error returned was:
ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory.

rfkill indicates that my wireless is not hard blocked.

Any other ideas to get rid of this error?

UPDATE:
In searching, I found this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67646
I ran

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# dmesg
in the console.
and I see some lines repeated that may be the culprit.
"b43/ucode5.fw" not found
"b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
You must go to http://wireless/kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
As indicated above, I have done enough groundwork toknow that I have a wireless card that may either be b43 or b43leagacy. I don't see a next step for Puppy at the website. I was hoping that the file b43-firmware-LP-PHY.pet is the driver that I needed.
Any suggestions on finding this file and getting my wireless running?

SOLUTION - Added afterwards If the final result of computer software is not as expected, start from the beginning and re-trace the step. Wlan0 now seeing wireless and connecting to them.
Last edited by highway_man on Sun 10 Feb 2013, 13:31, edited 3 times in total.

watchdog
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Location: Italy

#2 Post by watchdog »

I should try to install Linux Sta Broadcom Driver:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76495

You can follow another way:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=112

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