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DISCUSSION Korrignu 2 participants 3 messages Feb 27, 2009 – Mar 3, 2009

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hello,

i have a BCM4312 (rev02) chipset on my laptop, and I can't understand on this webpage http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#supported
if it is supported by b43 module or not

in fact, when i load the module, there is no new network interface created...
and i can't find informations about it on the web...

could get me some informations about this problem ?

thank you

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hello,

i have a BCM4312 (rev02) chipset on my laptop, and I can't understand on this webpage http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#supported
if it is supported by b43 module or not

in fact, when i load the module, there is no new network interface created...
and i can't find informations about it on the web...

could get me some informations about this problem ?

The BCM4312 is somewhat of a problem as there are two completely different devices that use that identification. You need to look at the PCI ID to tell if it is supported. Use the command 'lspci -n'and look for a line that has "14e5:43XX" in it. If XX is 15, it is not supported. The fact that you have to load the b43 module manually suggests that it is not supported. The other thing to do is the command 'dmesg | grep b43'.

Larry

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Korrignu wrote:

hello,

i have a *BCM4312* (rev02) chipset on my laptop, and I can't understand on this webpage http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#supported
if it is supported by b43 module or not

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in fact, when i load the module, there is no new network interface created...
and i can't find informations about it on the web...

could get me some informations about this problem ?

The *BCM4312* is somewhat of a problem as there are two completely different devices that use that identification. You need to look at the PCI ID to tell if it is supported. Use the command 'lspci -n'and look for a line that has "14e5:43XX" in it. If XX is 15, it is not supported. The fact that you have to load the b43 module manually suggests that it is not supported. The other thing to do is the command 'dmesg | grep b43'.

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Larry
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In fact XX is 15 so it is not supported thanks for your quick answer