F8, b43 and radio button for BCM4318

eah darth_linux at ameritech.net
Fri Nov 16 03:27:28 UTC 2007


On Thursday 15 November 2007 20:56:46 pm eah wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have the BCM4318 wlan0. b43 driver picks it up after following
> instructions using  broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2. It does not active the
> card's radio (my little blue light stays dark to say it like an end user) .
> dmesg
> reports "ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready"
>
> What do I need to do to get that working?
>
> This is the farthest I've ever gotten using the stock driver, so kudos to
> all involved in that.
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Eric Hartwell

btw: i'm running x86_64 and i'm pretty sure the firmware was for the 32-bit 
version. 

thanks, 

Eric 




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