Re: Unable to get Broadcom 4311 working with SliTaz

[Rohit Joshi <rj.rohit@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please, post your output on forum. Lets follow up there, Also, if "wl"
is not working, try ndiswrapper too.

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Jon Cargille <jon.cargille@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I should have been more clear:  the behavior is still the same even after
> doing the "tazusb writefs" to generate the new rootfs to the USB
> thumb-drive.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>
>
> 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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