f8t3 live: no networking on presario 700 (Broadcom)

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 21:13:32 UTC 2007


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 13:24 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>> Just to be sure, what made you choose version 4 firmware for your
>> device? I had messages in dmesg directing me to get the version 3
>> firmware (for my BCM4306 card). I'm not sure what firmware/driver the
>> 4311 would use, but it would probably tell you in the logs..
> 
> As of F7 it demands v4. Which nicely complicated the hell out upgrading
> to F7, as finding v4 drivers to cut the firmware from was next to
> impossible upon release.
> 

Well, the answer from bcm43-devel: broadcom 4311, rev 2, cards are not 
supported by b43 or b43 legacy.

sean




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