Ok, this is driving me crazy. I'm setting up an old Dell Precision M60 notebook, and I can't manage to enable support for its wireless device on debian squeeze.
What I tried:
lspci | grep -i wireless
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
nice. I found this page on debianwiki: bcm43xx . First of all, let's check if the device is really supported.
lspci -vnn -d 14e4:
02:03.0 Network controller : Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card [1028:0001]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at fafec000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
so it's [14e4:4320] (rev 02). And yes, it's supported . Back to the debianwiki page
" For 802.11b-only devices (BCM4301) or **802.11b/g devices with the BCM4306 revision 2 chipset, install firmware-b43legacy-installer**"
let's try:
sudo aptitude install firmware-b43legacy-installer
..
firmware-b43legacy-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up firmware-b43legacy-installer (4.178.10.4-4) ...
Not supported card here (PCI id 14e4:165
14e4:4320)!
Use b43 firmware. This is just for the b43legacy driver.
Aborting.
dpkg: error processing firmware-b43legacy-installer (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-b43legacy-installer
Setting up firmware-b43legacy-installer (4.178.10.4-4) ...
Not supported card here (PCI id 14e4:165
14e4:4320)!
Use b43 firmware. This is just for the b43legacy driver.
Aborting.
dpkg: error processing firmware-b43legacy-installer (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-b43legacy-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up firmware-b43legacy-installer (4.178.10.4-4) ...
Not supported card here (PCI id 14e4:165
14e4:4320)!
Use b43 firmware. This is just for the b43legacy driver.
Aborting.
dpkg: error processing firmware-b43legacy-installer (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-b43legacy-installer
What? Let's try with the firmware-b43-installer
aptitude install firmware-b43-installer
It works. But:
sudo iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Again? I googled the error and it is related to the firmware, but i Installed it! I already checked in
lib/firmware
, there's a b43 folder with the .fw files
Any idea?
Asked by randomUser
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Feb 28, 2013, 01:54 PM
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