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Mr. X

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From: belgrade, serbia

Registered: 2007-02-28

Posts: 67

setting wifi (BCM4312) on dell vostro 1510

I need help with setting up wireless card on my Dell Vostro 1510 laptop, with installed 64bit Arch...

I've used the wiki and everything went smooth, but I saw no activity of my wireless card...
When I use the hardware Wi-Fi switch on the laptop, only bluetooth led fires up, while the wifi led stays off...

here's some outputs (made after following the wiki, and loading modules ^^):

# lspci | grep -i -e network
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

# hwdetect --show-net
NET    : r8169 bluetooth

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1C:23:4A:E0:3D  
          inet addr:192.168.1.201  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21c:23ff:fe4a:e03d/64 Scope:Link              
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3550 errors:0 dropped:7172958895 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3513 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3845663 (3.6 Mb)  TX bytes:508959 (497.0 Kb)
          Interrupt:16 Base address:0xa000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1000 (1000.0 b)  TX bytes:1000 (1000.0 b)

I've tryed with ndiswrapper too, but no luck...
(Although the process of choosing the right windows driver was quite confusing for me... Maybe I got something wrong... I downloaded the first driver from ndiswrapper wiki and chose .inf file from driver_us dir... There is x64 dir too, but no .inf and .sys file inside...)

Finally, there's a gentoo tutorial on this topic, but I couldn't manage to follow it...

I've trying all day to get this thing working, so any idea would be helpful...

Thanks!

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: setting wifi (BCM4312) on dell vostro 1510

When I first bought my dell my wi fi was recognized as USB broadcom 4310 which works only with ndiswrapper, however after some updates I noticed that it is now recognized as Broadcom 4312... Very strange... But although it is recognized as 4312 (which is supported by b43) it doesn't work with it. The only way I got it working was with ndiswrapper and Broadcom 4310 windows driver. I've written how I got it to work in this thread.

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