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Author: Mark Phillips
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Subject: Re: wireless USB device
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.
>>
>>
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