[sf-lug] wifi on dell: system stats

[John Lowry]

I believe you have to use fw-cutter from a driver file for windows. It
will pull the firmware file for you. Then just copy the firmware to
/lib/firmware

jim wrote:
>    that's a good tip. 
> 
>    is all we have to do is find the firmware file (ha!) 
> and copy it into 
> /lib/firmware/ or /lib/firmware/2.6.28-15-generic/ 
> or ...? 
> 
>    (on this box, /lib/firmware/ shows a lot of 
> ipw* and iwlwifi* files.) 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:55 -0700, John Lowry wrote:
>> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>>
>> The Broadcom card in the laptop has support in the kernel, it just needs
>> the binary firmware to be loaded. It has been a while since I have had
>> to deal with these cards, I avoid them like the plague, but they do work
>> with Linux.
>>
>> jim wrote:
>>>    still no luck trying to get wifi working on a 
>>> dell inspiron 1545 running ubuntu 9.04 
>>>    current fallback plan is to reinstall ubuntu 
>>> 9.10 and hope and see. 
>>>
>>>
>>> Dell Inspiron 1545 Model PP41L
>>> RAM 2.9GB 
>>> Storage 156.8GB 
>>>
>>> dmesg output shows 
>>> intel CPU T4200 2GHz dual core 
>>> agpgart-intel intel mobile intel GM45 ExpressChipset 
>>> Broadcom BCM4315 Wireless Controller 5.10.91.9 
>>>
>>> uname -a output shows 
>>> kernel 2.6.28-15 
>>> #52-Ubuntu SMP 9.04 
>>>
>>> lsmod output shows nothing for networking 
>>>
>>> lspci output shows 
>>> Ethernet controller: Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast rev 13 
>>> Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g rev 01 
>>>
>>>
>>>
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