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Submitted by LemuelWBlack on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 19:07

Broadcom 43224 not working with b43 driver

I can't do anything about it. It was given to me by my employer. I know that two main things don't work:

Graphics card → Nvidia 3100M (218)
Wireless card → Broadcoam 4353 (rev 01)

Supposedly, they should both now work with opensource drivers, noveau is not working with Trisquel. Ututo did work. The only way to get picture for me is using the (now) classic nouveau.modeset=0 which sucks. I am here offering this crappy thing as your sandbox. Tell me what you want me to test, and I'll do it from a Pendrive.

In one of my many attempts, I think that I managed to hear the login sound from Trisquel (no picture). I tried everything (even compiling the kernel, although I don't know if I did it well)

Cheers

Legimet:
Thu, 06/25/2015 - 23:53

Unfortunately, this chip requires nonfree firmware.

LemuelWBlack:
Sat, 01/26/2013 - 13:32

Probably related to https://trisquel.info/en/issues/2600 and https://trisquel.info/en/add-new-free-broadcom-firmware-wireless-cards

LemuelWBlack:
Mon, 01/21/2013 - 11:08

No success. Can somebody help me, please?

lembas:
Mon, 01/21/2013 - 09:04

You're welcome.

Watch out for instructions to use proprietary firmware or binary blobs.

LemuelWBlack:
Mon, 01/21/2013 - 00:19

Thanks, lembas [13 January, 2013 - 09:31]. I will wait to see if someone else can help me. I'm looking into the guidelines from the Linux Wireless site to see if I can compile this thing and put it in the kernel.

I am following the documentation from gNewSense (another GNU-Linux). I am about to restart my machine to see if it works. If it does not, I will try to follow the guide from Linux wireless for brcm80211. Otherwise, I will try with the guide from Tenzin

Vive la liberté

lembas:
Sun, 01/13/2013 - 20:31

Glad to hear you got the monitor working. I'm afraid my wireless help is limited to a suggestion to get an external adapter, e.g. from think penguin, there's a banner on the right hand side -->

LemuelWBlack:
Sun, 01/13/2013 - 19:15

Thanks! It works now. I installed jxself kernel 3.7.1 and the resolution is now normal and works like a charm. I post what I did in case that somebody else needs the info at the end of this post.

I would like to know if you can help me with the wireless now... please? I now add a file with lspci -vvvnnk

Install the recent kernel to solve video problems

  1. Open a terminal using Ctrl Alt T
  2. Add Jason Self's (jxself) Freesh apt repository by typing:

    sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/freesh/ freesh main #Linux-libre' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linux-libre.list" && wget http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/freesh/archive-key.asc && sudo apt-key add archive-key.asc && rm archive-key.asc && sudo aptitude update

    http://jxself.org/linux-libre/

  3. Install latest kernel (64 stands for 64 bits) by typing this in the terminal window just opened:
    sudo aptitude install linux-libre64-headers
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GustavoCM:
Fri, 01/11/2013 - 20:11

Also see: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/better-libre-kernel-source-dns-ppa-or-jxself

lembas:
Fri, 01/11/2013 - 17:05

One thing you might want to try is a newer Linux-libre kernel.

http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/#downloads

LemuelWBlack:
Fri, 01/11/2013 - 13:10

New info: I loaded the OS on a pendrive, plugged in a separate VGA monitor, and I am currently sending this information with the blank LCD.

I attach the lspci -vvvn output

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