On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:43:51 -0400 (EDT), Jose Martinez wrote: > > I sure appreciate the info. The internal B43 wireless on my laptop does > not play nicely with the b43legacy driver and locks up fairly > frequently, and has limited data rates. (the b43 driver doesn't work at > all). This seems to be a pretty common problem, as I've run across it > mentioned on several sites. So, I thought I'd get something that was > less problematic.....alas and alack the solution seems to have its own > issues!!
In Debian, the driver and the firmware are separate. Make sure you have the firmware installed also. Usually, you can detect missing firmware with dmesg|less and search for the string "firmware" (without the quotes). See if there are any error messages regarding the attempt to load firmware. You will need Debian package firmware-b43legacy-installer or firmware-b43-installer, depending on which chipset is built in. firmware-b43legacy-installer is needed for chipsets BCM4301, BCM4306/2, or BCM4306. firmware-b43-installer is used for chipets BCM4306/3, BCM4311, BCM4318, BCM4321, BCM4322 (only 14e4:432b), or BCM4312 (with Low-Power a.k.a. LP-PHY). Make sure that you have the contrib and the non-free sections of the archive enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, as this involves non-free stuff. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-
