any ideas on how to get it working...... :-)~MIKE~(-: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Mike, > > Ideas about what??? > > Mark > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> bummer.... a little searching turned up >> >> http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/796 >> >> which tells us to >> >> lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 >> 04:07.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 >> 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02) >> >> and then to look for 14e4:170c in >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 and if you can find it >> it is supported. >> >> Ideas? >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Matt Graham >> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >>> There is no Darkness in Eternity >>> But only Light too dim for us to see. >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >