Re: Unable to get Broadcom 4311 working with SliTaz

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Jon Cargille <jon.cargille@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Looks like I spoke too soon. The LiveUSB copy of SliTaz that it generated to my thumb-drive boots great!

I'm still not getting the wl driver to work correctly, though. I did a tazpkg install on the three from your packages dir (linux-2.6.30.6.tazpkg, linux-wireless-2.6.30.6.tazpkg, and the broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3_2.6..30.6.tazpkg). The behavior is still the same. wl loads fine but no wireless device shows up in dmesg, iwconfig, or ifconfig.

Shall I send the output of those commands? I didn't see anything interesting, but would be glad to send it. But also didn't want to flood your mailbox if you didn't want it.

Thanks,

Jon

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Jon Cargille <jon.cargille@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry, I probably should have mentioned that I am a total linux newb. :-)

Since my USB thumb-drive is currently not bootable, I figured I probably needed to do a "tazusb gen-liveusb /dev/sdb1" to get a bootable LiveUSB SliTaz; and then do the "taxusb writefs" to update the rootfs.gz.. Does that sound right?

I hit a snag doing that, though. "tazusb gen-liveusb /dev/sdb1" (which was mounted on /home) ended with:

cp: cannot stat '/media/cdrom/boot/isolinux/*.inc': No such file or directory.

Sure enough, if I mount the LiveCD cdrom on /media/cdrom, that directory exists, but there are no *.inc file in that directory.

Am I missing something? Or is there some other way to get the rootfs.gz generated by the "tazusb writefs lzma" to boot from my thumb-drive without doing the gen-liveusb?

Thanks!

Jon

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Rohit Joshi <rj.rohit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ofcourse, you need to reboot for it to work. Why don't you do "tazusb
writefs lzma" and boot from usb. Everything should be ok then.

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Jon Cargille <jon.cargille@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> BTW, I did try with that package, and the linux-wireless package, with no
> luck.
>
> Note that I'm trying to do this from the downloaded LiveCD image, so I can't
> install a new kernel and reboot to that--or is there some way to do that
> that I don't know of?
>
> I'm trying to get this running on a zero-HDD footprint machine...
>
> Is there some other LiveCD image that I would be better off with?
>
> Thanks much for any assistance,
>
> Jon
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Jon Cargille <jon.cargille@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Do you mean the package called "linux-2.6.30.6.tazpkg"? If so, what is
>> different in that linux pkg? The version of SliTaz LiveCD that I'm using
>> already says it is 2.6.30.6.
>>
>> I did verify that ssb was not loaded.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Rohit Joshi <rj.rohit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Right, you need to either upgrade your computer again or use the linux
>>> pkg from my directory. For broadcom-wl to work, ssb module should not
>>> be loaded in memory. Make sure "ssb" is also not there in
>>> LOAD_MODULES.
>>>
>>> Rohit
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Jon Cargille <jon.cargille@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> > SliTaz is really slick! Thanks to those who have labored to put it
>>> > together.
>>> >
>>> > I'm having one problem that I'm totally unable to resolve, though--I've
>>> > tried everything I could find on the net.
>>> >
>>> > The laptop I'm running on has a Broadcom 4311 wireless chipset in it.
>>> > I've
>>> > tried using both the b43 driver, as well as the wl one released by
>>> > Broadcom. No luck with either one.
>>> >
>>> > The "wl" module loads fine, but it never identifies the device, so no
>>> > wireless devices show up under iwconfig or ifconfig. The "b43" module
>>> > will
>>> > not load; it says "Unknown symbol ssb_bus_pcmciabus_register" (that's
>>> > from
>>> > memory, but I'm pretty sure that is it). I couldn't find any way to
>>> > resolve
>>> > that.
>>> >
>>> > For the wl driver, I was using the tazpkg that jozee shared in his
>>> > packages
>>> > directory. For the b43 driver, I was using the one that came with
>>> > SliTaz.
>>> > The SliTaz distrib I'm using is the Live CD of cooking-20091124.
>>> >
>>> > Any tips much appreciated!
>>> >
>>> > Jon
>>> >
>>>
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>>>
>>
>
>

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