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Cheesecake Charlie

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Registered: 2011-09-08

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[ SOLVED ] ...... Broadcom Driver Help

I have a new Acer Aspire 4820T and when i run $ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 it returns my broadcom driver as BCM43225.  Looking at the Broadcom-Wireless wiki it appears i can use either brcmsmac ( which is included in the kernel ) or broadcom-wl.

Any suggestions as to which would be better ?

Cheers

Last edited by Cheesecake Charlie (2011-09-09 16:15:48)

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Re: [ SOLVED ] ...... Broadcom Driver Help

Welcome to the Arch Linux forums Cheesecake Charlie.

According to the output of 'lspci' you should be able to use the brcmsmac driver. I assume you already visited This one , and did you read the note:

Note: The bcma module can prevent some cards from showing up and may need to be blacklisted.

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Cheesecake Charlie

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Registered: 2011-09-08

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Re: [ SOLVED ] ...... Broadcom Driver Help

Welcome to the Arch Linux forums Cheesecake Charlie.

According to the output of 'lspci' you should be able to use the brcmsmac driver. I assume you already visited This one , and did you read the note:

Note: The bcma module can prevent some cards from showing up and may need to be blacklisted.

Thanks for the Welcome )

Yes i did follow that wiki and blacklisted the module.  Will give feedback if i run into and problems .....

Cheers

Cheesecake Charlie

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Registered: 2011-09-08

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Re: [ SOLVED ] ...... Broadcom Driver Help

Right, i followed the Broadcom wiki and installed the Broadcom-wl from aur and blacklisted what i was supposed to.  The boot error messages went away, but now i dont have any wlan0 or wireless connection and nothing is showing up in wicd.

if i go back to using the module in the kernel, i get wireless connection but errors about wl_ops_config & brcmsmac: wl_ops_bss_info_changed etc

Any suggestions please ?

Cheers

Last edited by Cheesecake Charlie (2011-09-09 14:30:29)