wireless USB device

[Matt Graham]

On 2014-10-22 23:38, Michael Havens wrote:
> lsusb|grep NetGear
> Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0846:9020 NetGear, Inc. WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N
> 300 [Broadcom BCM43231]

Hm.  A little grepping through /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/ 
made me think that the right kernel module might be brcmfmac .  At 
least, that module says it supports the BCM42325, BCM43236, and BCM43238 
USB devices, and 43231 is not that far away from those numbers.  After 
you modprobe that module, you should see some stuff about "brcmfmac: 
found wlan0 at blah" in the output from dmesg, and you should see 
another networking device when you do "ifconfig -a" if it was the right 
thing.

Or if that doesn't work, you could try the binary drivers from 
Broadcom.  Your distro may have a package for those already; check that 
first.  The Gentoo package is called broadcom-sta , so search your 
packages for that first.  Homepage for binary drivers is 
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php , but you really 
really should use your distro's package if one exists.

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