Wireless Broadcom 4306 PCMCIA drivers not loaded

mmtzephyr · posted: 2010-04-18 16:08

I installed AntiX 8.5 on a ASUS S1300 Pentium 3 laptop. All went well except that the PCMCIA wireless card does not work. I reinstalled B43-FWCUTTER and still can get it going. I have no link/activity LED so Im assuming the drivers are not being loaded properly. This same laptop and wireless card work with Ubuntu. Any ideas?

oldhoghead · posted: 2010-04-18 16:48

Can you post the output of:

iwconfig
lspci | grep -i net
ndiswrapper -l

cheers,
oldhoghead

mmtzephyr · posted: 2010-04-18 20:22

oldhoghead,
I appreciate the help. Below is the output.

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

lspci | grep -i net
01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

# ndiswrapper -l

thanks,
mmtzephyr

anticapitalista · posted: 2010-04-18 20:29

Here is a (long) thread at MEPISlovers. You might find something there. Others were having the same problem.

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eriefisher · posted: 2010-04-18 23:40

This has worked for me in the past. Edit /etc/modprobe.d/b43.conf

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# by default, the b43 and b44 drivers are disabled and ndiswrapper or wl will try to control a bcm chip
#
# you can enable the loading of b43 or b44 by commenting out 'install b4x true'
#
# to disable autoload of ndiswrapper, you can set ndis=no in /etc/defaults/mepis-network
#
# everything can be set manually, but to avoid confusion it is preferred that you set it 
# with the MEPIS Network Assistant

#install b43 true
#install b44 true
#install ssb true

Also, you may want to add

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blacklist ndiswrapper

to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf