[Voyage-linux] bcm43xx as a client

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Jim,

Just google a while and found this:

http://cross-lfs.org/view/clfs-embedded/wrt/materials/packages-wrt.html

scroll down and get the file.

Please also share your bcm43xx experience or document it in the wiki.

- Punky

Jim Cheetham wrote:
> Just got my first install of voyage up on an old Dell laptop, very 
> easy :-)
>
> I want to drive the broadcom wireless chip, to join onto the existing
> wlan. I've done this under other linux' on the same hardware with
> ndiswrapper.
>
> But here it looks like the bcm43xx driver is the way to go :-) so far
> I've spotted the bcm43xx-mac80211 module, when I load this I seem to
> get a wlan0 device - but if I try to 'ifconfig wlan0 up' I'm told that
> I have no firmware.
>
> So I went to an Ubuntu feisty machine, and installed bcm43x-fwcutter,
> which collected firmware for me, and copied that into /lib/firmware.
> Now 'ifconfig wlan0 up' tells me that the fw I have is no good, and it
> needs version 4 code.
>
> Am I doing this right? If so, where can I get the version 4 firmware
> from? I don't have a Windows CD for this machine, I don't own a copy
> of Windows anywhere ...
>
> -jim
>
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