HCoder.org » wl http://hcoder.org Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:43:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 BCM4312 on Linux: easier than expected http://hcoder.org/2009/09/10/bcm4312-on-linux-easier-than-expected/ http://hcoder.org/2009/09/10/bcm4312-on-linux-easier-than-expected/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:29:00 +0000 emanchado Just a quick post to say that I was being stupid and it took me a couple of days of fighting, lockups and reading to realise that the driver for the wireless card in my new laptop is actually already packaged and it works like a charm.

The long(er) story:

  • I bought a laptop with that card, and I wanted to make it work.
  • Apparently the open source driver (b43) doesn’t recognise my card, although it seems it should?
  • I tried to download the proprietary driver provided by the vendor (wl), but it didn’t compile at first. After applying some patch for the kernel 2.6.29 (I’m using kernel 2.6.30) it did compile, but it didn’t quite work. Meaning, it locked up my machine seconds after loading.
  • After a couple of days of wondering and trying to make it work… I realised the driver is already compiled in Debian (in particular, broadcom-sta-modules-2.6.30-1-686). Just installing and loading it worked like a charm. Oh well.

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