wireless USB device

[Stephen Partington]

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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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