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Author: Stephen Partington
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: wireless USB device
That mint article kind of tells you the basics of how to get it working.
the rest is basic WiFi management in Linux.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Michael Havens <> wrote:

> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
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