[CC'ing the SoaS list, too] Hi Tabitha!
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Tabitha Roder <[email protected]> wrote: > We tried out Sugar on a Stick on an HP Mini 311 today. Sadly the the > Broadcom BCM4312 wireless doesn't work. This chipset seems to be supported > but requires a binary firmware which is not normally distributed. I got it > going in ubuntu lucid with some hair pulling (the restricted driver thing > didn't work, had to do stuff manually), but I was unable to get it working > in SoaS. I installed the correct firmware in /lib/firmware and when I > modprobe b43, the module loads, but it doesn't create an wlan0 interface. I > don't get any obvious errors either. > > I'll try again with regular fedora later. > > I'm not sure what can be done here. The firmware is available from the > openwrt project, but it's not clear under what license it can be > redistributed. Given that ubuntu and debian distribute an installer package > (which downloads from openwrt) and the fedora instructions at > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 suggest manually downloading > the firmware from openwrt, I'm guessing SugarLabs won't be distributing the > firmware any time soon :-( I think you're right. The official broadcom driver seems to be non-free and is (at least for Fedora) not available in official repositories. It has, however, found its way into RPM Fusion, which provides such packages:http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/13/i386/repoview/kmod-wl.html In addition to the b43-fwcutter package mentioned at the link above for Fedora, there's also a new one called b43-openfwwf available, which is described as an "Open firmware for some Broadcom 43xx series WLAN chips". I think we're already including this in SoaS, though, so that your specific wifi chipset is probably not yet supported. > Sugar displayed and functioned as expected in other respects. I'm glad to hear that! Thanks for giving it a try! :) --Sebastian > Tabitha > > _______________________________________________ > Testing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
