Hi Mukund,
On 09/02/2009 09:09 PM, Mukund Deshmukh wrote:
[...snip...] I tried b43, b43legacy, then downloaded source from broadcom site, compiled wl, but driver failed to work (no wlan0). I tried fwcutter also. Finally shifted ndiswrapper, and it worked. [...snip...] The distro is debian and chipset is 4312.
Yes, I would be interested in native support.
Cool. The reason I asked for the lspci output was because some broadcom cards report the same device string for different PCI ids:
http://wiki.debian.org/wl#SupportedDevices
I too have a bcm 4312 card: $ lspci -nn ... 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01) ...
...which is supported using the wl module. However, this native support appeared only recently. So, you might want to check with the latest kernel on your system.
I am running Fedora 11 with kernel 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.x86_64 and the wl driver version kmod-wl-5.10.91.9-3.fc11.8.x86_64.
Since you use debian, following these instructions might work for you: http://wiki.debian.org/wl
NOTE: you *have* to blacklist any existing driver to make this work properly.
[steve@laptop ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl-blacklist.conf # modules blacklisted for broadcom-wl blacklist bcm43xx blacklist ssb blacklist b43 blacklist ndiswrapper [steve@laptop ~]$
Let me know how it goes.
I need small help as regards LCD brightness on Laptops. Every time I start, debian, the brightness of laptop is changed. Is there any way, I can stop debian from interfering with brightness setting?
That's your power management setting. There are various places where this can be changed. Most commonly recommended if you are using GNOME: go to System->Preferences->Power Management. There you can customize screen brightness on AC as well as battery power.
The brightness is set to maximum :-(, during kernel loading... I work on CLI.
ah ok. cool ! I was a exclusively CLI guy for years, before they stopped caring about making the cli look good (ie: good console SVGA modes) ...though I still run a minimal windowmaker desktop.
For cli, my guess would be, play with /proc/acpi/video/*/*/brightness ...or some such. For me, this worked:
[root@laptop ~]# ls -l /proc/acpi/video/*/DD0*/brightness -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-09-02 17:03 /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD01/brightness -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-09-02 17:03 /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-09-02 17:03 /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD03/brightness -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-09-02 17:03 /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD04/brightness -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-09-02 17:03 /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD05/brightness [root@laptop ~]# cat /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD0*/brightness <not supported> <not supported> levels: 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 current: 100 <not supported> <not supported> [root@laptop ~]# echo 20 > /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD03/brightness [root@laptop ~]#
HTH, cheers, - steve