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otibom

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Registered: 2012-05-23

Posts: 1

Trouble with BCM4322

Hi guys, new Arch user here.

I'm trying to set up wireless, my card is a BCM4322 (Mid 2010 Macbook pro)
I know the driver for this card is in the kernel now, but I previously installed the b43 driver, thinking I needed to ... (sorry).
The gentlemen on IRC told me I should use the kernel driver, so I ran 'pacman -R b43'.

Now things seem pretty messed up :

# ip addr
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 78:ca:39:bb:fe:c3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

# ip link set wlan0 up
RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory

How can I make sure that there are no bits or pieces remaining from the b43 driver installation ? How can use wifi ?

Thanks for your help. Arch is almost awesome on my laptop.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Trouble with BCM4322

The gentlemen on IRC were wrong, you *need* b43. You also need b43-firmware from AUR.