On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Steve Woodruff wrote:
I am hoping to find a bit of guidance on an issue I've been having.
I just installed gNewSense 2.3, and went through the process of
setting up my wireless adapter (Broadcom 4311 rev. 01) - I used the
guide that Leo Rockway wrote here:
http://leorockway.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/0c00-0-network-controller-broadcom-corporation-bcm4311-802-11bg-wlan-rev-01-take-two/
I have used this method in the past with no ill-effects. It has
worked for me in Debian, Ubuntu, and gNewSense before. However, this
time it's giving me a continuous output of error messages. I have
attached a portion of dmesg as a file. This section of dmesg just
keeps repeating over, and over again. I'm really at a loss, but
would like to get this working as quickly as possible. Thank you all
for your time and effort!
This has traditionally relied upon non-free software for its
operation, so b43 has probably been removed from the kernel.
The OpenFWWF site claims that that their goal is to provide an open
source firmware for Broadcom/AirForce chipset based devices, but their
site goes on to say that to make the firmware work properly you need
at least 2 more files that must be extracted from original Broadcom
drivers: b0g0bsinitvals5.fw and b0g0initvals5.fw.
This makes me wonder if it truly is free software. May I suggest
replacing your WiFi card with one that is better supported by free
software?
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