In previous installs of 11.4 it would work out of the box. Not always well, until there was a kernel upgrade at which point it was better than the proprietary driver.
I just installed 12.1 (Gnome3), and it was using the b43 driver. I installed the firmware, and it worked… but in-stably. It also wouldn’t show the networks in the list. So I installed the wl driver from Packman, and now it isn’t working at all.
Ideally I’d like to go back to using the OSS driver it used once upon a time (brcm80211 was what it was called in 11.4). Either way, kinda need that working since this is a netbook.
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)
linux-icu6:/home/roger # lsmod | grep wl
wl 2447112 0
Thankfully I do have my Broadband working.
On 04/19/2012 11:46 PM, Shadowolf7 wrote:
>
> In previous installs of 11.4 it would work out of the box. Not always
> well, until there was a kernel upgrade at which point it was better than
> the proprietary driver.
>
> I just installed 12.1 (Gnome3), and it was using the b43 driver. I
> installed the firmware, and it worked… but in-stably. It also wouldn’t
> show the networks in the list. So I installed the wl driver from
> Packman, and now it isn’t working at all.
>
> Ideally I’d like to go back to using the OSS driver it used once upon a
> time (brcm80211 was what it was called in 11.4). Either way, kinda need
> that working since this is a netbook.
>
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n
> (rev 01)
>
> linux-icu6:/home/roger # lsmod | grep wl
> wl 2447112 0
You can still use driver brcm80211 - it now is called brcmsmac. You will need to
blacklist b43 and get rid of wl. In addition, you will need the kernel-firmware
package.
I just figured it out before I checked my e-mail. Apparently the DVD installer goofs and forgets to add the kernel-firmware. Having installed lw the b43 was blacklisted. All I had to do was remove wl, and add kernel-firmware then boom it worked perfect after a reboot.
Strange though that wl didn’t work at all whereas it will work usually, though having issues with a select few networks. Brcmsmac is superior anyway.