Has anyone been successful getting the Broadcom 4318 chipset to work with the native diriver bcm43xx_microcode5.fw? How about using the NDIS wrapper?
From the dmesg output below it appears Knoppix 5.02 is attempting to load the native driver bcm43xx_microcode5.fw. I have Knoppix 5.02 running great from a USB
thumb drive and if I can get the Broadcom 4318 wireless working I would have a great solution when I connect to a open wireless AP. I have no problem researching this
issue but would appreciate any pointers/advice to get me started.
knoppix@5[knoppix]$ dmesg | grep bcm
bcm43xx driver
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, disabled
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 2, Revision 7
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev:
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
knoppix@5[knoppix]$ dmesg | grep 4318
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2
knoppix@5[knoppix]$ uname -a
Linux Knoppix 2.6.17 #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 10 13:53:45 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
knoppix@5[knoppix]$
Thanks Very Much In Advance
Regards
Ron

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