Just echoing what everybody else says, b43 doesn't seem to work.
$ uname -a Linux pippin 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
version: Ubuntu 8.04 standard i386, up-to-date as of 7/6/2008 computer type: Dell D600 laptop, circa 2005
$lspci -vvv <snip> 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI Card Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 Region 0: Memory at fafee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] <snip>
I get it to work by $ sudo modprobe -r b43 $ sudo modprobe bcm43xx Note: blacklisting b43 and whitelisting bcm43xx doesn't work for me, I need to start the driver once the system is up and running.
regards, Ben
Just echoing what everybody else says, b43 doesn't seem to work.
$ uname -a
Linux pippin 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
version: Ubuntu 8.04 standard i386, up-to-date as of 7/6/2008
computer type: Dell D600 laptop, circa 2005
$lspci -vvv
<snip>
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI Card
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 0: Memory at fafee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
<snip>
I get it to work by
$ sudo modprobe -r b43
$ sudo modprobe bcm43xx
Note: blacklisting b43 and whitelisting bcm43xx doesn't work for me, I need to start the driver once the system is up and running.
regards,
Ben