Re: wireless USB device

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Author: Matt Graham
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: wireless USB device
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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