Broadcom bcm94321MP - Maybe? How to make it work?

[Chris Ruprecht]

Hello all,

I recently got an HP dv9000 CTO laptop and finally managed to get FC5 
x86_64 installed.
The wired NIC is working, the wireless isn't, the sound isn't and the 
webcam isn't either. I haven't tried the FireWire stuff yet, so not sure 
if that works, but that's no priority (neither are sound and webcam, the 
wireless stuff is though).

Some digging around on the web took me to bcm43xx-fwcutter and I 
followed the instructions, but the card doesn't show up in the device 
list to select (there is only 'Other'). Of course, there is a driver for 
the Windows side, but with an 80 GB drive, there is no space for 
Windows. If I need to install windows elsewhere and install the broadcom 
driver to extract the firmware, I can do that - question is: will the 
extraction part work for anything else than the wl_apsta.o file?

I'm dropping the output of lspci in here, it hasn't helped me a bit:

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller 
(rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio 
(rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
HyperTransport Technology Configur
ation
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 
0398 (rev a1)
04:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832
04:05.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host 
Adapter (rev 19)
04:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
04:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host 
Adapter (rev 0a)
04:05.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

Best regards,
Chris


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Chris Ruprecht  * Senior Consultant * BravePoint, Inc.
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