Arch Linux

DrathIntruder

Member

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 7

Dell Studio 1555

Well my laptop unfortunately came with a Broadcom 4312 Core Rev 15 card.

Is there a way to get it installed during command line after installation.

I also have no ethernet connection as I live in an apartment and the router is too far.

codycarey

Member

Registered: 2009-08-21

Posts: 154

Re: Dell Studio 1555

Are you saying it worked during installation but doesn't work afterwards? Or just that you need a way to get it working after doing the basic install from disk?

DrathIntruder

Member

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 7

Re: Dell Studio 1555

Are you saying it worked during installation but doesn't work afterwards? Or just that you need a way to get it working after doing the basic install from disk?

yeah, I need to get it to work after the basic install.

It didn't work during installation either. Looking at dmesg, It say something about I needed to get the broadcom firmware

Last edited by DrathIntruder (2010-09-11 20:57:33)

codycarey

Member

Registered: 2009-08-21

Posts: 154

Re: Dell Studio 1555

Are you saying it worked during installation but doesn't work afterwards? Or just that you need a way to get it working after doing the basic install from disk?

yeah, I need to get it to work after the basic install.

It didn't work during installation either. Looking at dmesg, It say something about I needed to get the broadcom firmware

Since this is a newer card it looks like your best bet is to download the broadcom-wl package from the AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514) to a USB drive and transfer it to your laptop. The steps should be something like this.

1. Grab the tarball from the link above.
2. Grab either http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/ … .36.tar.gz(i686) or http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/ … .36.tar.gz(x86_64) depending on your architecture.
3. Put these files on your USB drive and transfer them to your laptop.
4. Uncompress the broadcom-wl tarball with 'tar xvzf broadcom-wl.tar.gz'.
5. Move the driver source code *.tar.gz into the new 'broadcom-wl' folder.
6. Make the package with 'makepkg'
7. Install the package with 'sudo pacman -U blahblah.tar.gz'

Last edited by codycarey (2010-09-11 21:38:58)

DrathIntruder

Member

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 7

Re: Dell Studio 1555

Are you saying it worked during installation but doesn't work afterwards? Or just that you need a way to get it working after doing the basic install from disk?

yeah, I need to get it to work after the basic install.

It didn't work during installation either. Looking at dmesg, It say something about I needed to get the broadcom firmware

Since this is a newer card it looks like your best bet is to download the broadcom-wl package from the AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514) to a USB drive and transfer it to your laptop. The steps should be something like this.

1. Grab the tarball from the link above.
2. Grab either http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/ … .36.tar.gz(i686) or http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/ … .36.tar.gz(x86_64) depending on your architecture.
3. Put these files on your USB drive and transfer them to your laptop.
4. Uncompress the broadcom-wl tarball with 'tar xvzf broadcom-wl.tar.gz'.
5. Move the driver source code *.tar.gz into the new 'broadcom-wl' folder.
6. Make the package with 'makepkg'
7. Install the package with 'sudo pacman -U blahblah.tar.gz'

Thanks! I will give that a go.

DrathIntruder

Member

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 7

Re: Dell Studio 1555

Aw man, everything worked up to the point of makepkg.

It said I needed some type of install script.

A friend of mine sent me a compiled version of the broadcom package. I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.35, although the wireless was Detected.
It said it was a Broadcom 4312 rev 01.

Which is odd. But typing in ifconfig wlan0 up = SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

Im missing firmware.

phazer11

Member

Registered: 2010-01-19

Posts: 20

Re: Dell Studio 1555

My friend here has tried but his biggest issue is other than the wireless he has no internet as there is no ethernet cabling in his apartment. He has read the wiki and has specifically gone to these for his issue among others. Since he has no ethernet he cannot download the dependencies or a desktop environment.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM43XX
All the steps above
Another one of my friends even compiled the package with the dependencies for him to install just in case

His wireless card is the Broadcom 4312 Core Rev 15,

Last edited by phazer11 (2010-09-12 19:39:33)

DrathIntruder

Member

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 7

Re: Dell Studio 1555

Hey I got it working. I needed to blacklist some modules.

I got Arch Linux up and running kde now.

Thanks for the help