I’ve been going through this site:
b43 - Linux Wireless and when I run the lspci command I get: “Absolute path to ‘lspci’ is ‘/sbin/lspci’, so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root).” even though I have entered the root password. The Dell support site says that the Dell Wireless card is 1390 but I don’t see a BCM1390 listed on the Linux Wireless page. How can I find out what hardware is really on here so I can get the firmware loaded?
Thanks,
Brian
Run it with “sudo lspci” or “/sbin/lspci”.
The Dell support site says that the Dell Wireless card is 1390 but I don’t see a BCM1390 listed on the Linux Wireless page. How can I find out what hardware is really on here so I can get the firmware loaded?
There is no BCM1390.
Post the output of lspci, that should tell which WLAN card you really have.
But apparently it’s an BCM4311, so you only need the firmware AFAIK.
I would recommend to download and install that package:
PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket b43-firmware
sudo rpm -i b43-firmware-4.174.64.19-3.1.noarch.rpm