On 18.06.2014 19:11, Temlakos wrote:
On 06/18/2014 12:05 PM, poma wrote:
On 18.06.2014 17:13, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:
I have a three-year-old Dell Inspiron 1545. It came with the Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card.
The current output of lspci -k |grep -iA5 wire gives "Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card" as a subsystem. The relevant kernel module is "ssb."
$ lspci -k |grep -iA5 Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... Try 'grep --help' for more information.
Currently this card will not connect. Nor can I force it to connect by directly editing the network interface. I've tried several times, but I can't get to a MAC address for it.
What driver(s) or other kernel module(s) should I install, and where can I get them?
Broadcom has a 32-bit and a 64-bit tarball for what they say is a driver for this card. Should I install that on my system?
Please advise. It seems a shame to operate any laptop without wireless connectivity.
Temlakos
The complete output of this command: $ lspci -knn | grep -A100 Wireless
poma
The output, after a couple of module installations, now reads:
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c] Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge Kernel modules: ssb, wl
Still no wireless connection available on that laptop.
Temlakos
Whence is "wl"?
OK, to get to Vendor&Device ID, hit this command: $ lspci -knn | grep -A10 BCM4312
Output could look like this: <bus>:<dev>.<func> Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c] Kernel driver in use: wl Kernel modules: wl, ssb
"ssb" is a specific bus module, i.e. "Sonics Silicon Backplane driver" Your "BCM4312" is attached to it.
BTW do you have the firmware installed?
poma