Broadcom 4318 wireless again ...

Klaus-Peter Schrage kpschrage at gmx.de
Mon Aug 27 16:25:40 UTC 2007


Ian Chapman wrote:
> Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
>
>> No bcm43xx is still bcm43xx, and it works with v3 firmware for me 
>> (wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o, see link above). bcm43xx-mac80211 now has 
>> been renamed to b43. Perhaps is this one who gets loaded and craves 
>> for the v4 firmware, see your dmesg output.
>
> AH yes it was because it was loading the b43 driver. So it's working 
> now,  thanks. Weeks ago when I tried the reason why it never worked 
> was because of the missing pci-id in sysfs. I think I'll move the 
> stuff in rc.local to somewhere earlier in the boot process though 
> because several services which rely on the network being present fail 
> to startup (eg autofs pulling stuff from ldap) and wpa_supplicant 
> segfaults too.
I have found a good place to load the bcm43xx driver to be rc.sysinit, 
to where I moved the two lines from rc.local after line 301, right after 
the 'fix console loglevel'  block. When the driver gets loaded thus 
early, wpa_supplicant should be ok.
Klaus




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