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[RESOLVED] BORK vs Broadcom 4401
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 11:23 pm
by Theo
This evening I installed BORK on an old HP laptop.
Everything went well, except for one point.
Ceni doesn't see my networkcard (the wired or wireless).
lspci told me this..
product:BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: BroadcomCorporation
Google wasn't a great help too, it let me download a package but the was already in the lib/firmware
I tried AntiX 13.2 from a livecd and Ceni detect both cards (wired and wireless) So there must be a solution, but I'm stucked.
Re: BORK vs Broadcom 4401
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 11:41 pm
by Theo
Solved eth0 with modprobe b44
Wireless with modprobe b43..
Solved and time to...
Re: [RESOLVED] BORK vs Broadcom 4401
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:41 am
by darry1966
Nice work Theo enjoy Bork. :)
Re: [RESOLVED] BORK vs Broadcom 4401
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 1:15 am
by dkeg
always great when you can solve your own issue .... kudos!
Re: [RESOLVED] BORK vs Broadcom 4401
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:37 am
by wuxmedia
Ahh yes, I have the same thing with my Acer with the BC NIC (only for the for the Eth0, oddly)
Might want to unblacklist them from here:
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sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf
or put the modprobe in /etc/rc.local
Re: [RESOLVED] BORK vs Broadcom 4401
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 5:08 pm
by Theo
wuxmedia wrote:
or put the modprobe in /etc/rc.local
That's how I solved it.. :) After that I took a beer (okay 2).
Re: [RESOLVED] BORK vs Broadcom 4401
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 7:48 am
by wuxmedia
Theo wrote:wuxmedia wrote:
or put the modprobe in /etc/rc.local
That's how I solved it.. :) After that I took a beer (okay 2).
Me too :) - I just did a bit of side research, seems better to just let it load first off, rather than blacklist, then reload it.
I haven't actually rebooted yet so not sure if that will work. :)
Re: [RESOLVED] BORK vs Broadcom 4401
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 2:55 pm
by machinebacon
You can always run
sudo fw-detect
and it will show you what's missing :)