wireless USB device

[Michael Havens]

any ideas on how to get it working......

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Ideas about what???
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <mhgraham at crow202.org>
>> 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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