[Voyage-linux] bcm43xx as a client

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

hi Jim,

Cool.  Actually I have a bcm43xx mini-pci card pulled from the broken 
WRT54G v1.  I just don't want to spend more time to test as I work on 
Atheros. So you saved me the time to explore it! ;-)

Don't if you notice that or not, voyage 0.3 apt repository has the 
fwcutter that you should suit your need.
    http://www.voyage.hk/dists/0.3/bcm43xx-fwcutter/

I had been thinking of putting the bcm43xx firmware in voyage a year 
ago.  But I concerned as it may not be legal to have this binary blob in 
the distribution.

- Punky

Jim Cheetham wrote:
> Thanks for the lead. I've written up what worked ...
> http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=how_do_i_get_bcm43xx_working_with_wpa 
>
>
> The wiki throws errors when saving changes to pages, but seems to work
> OK after that.
>
> -jim
>
> On 27/04/07, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:
>> 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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>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Punky
>>
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Regards,
Punky

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