Porteus

I have an Acer netbook I use when traveling. It has a bcm4312 wireless device that has worked with Porteus out of the box for quite a while. I'm currently using 3.1 i486 XFCE. I gave the just released 3.2rc2-i586 xfce release today and bcrm4312 is not recognised. I have reverted to version 3.1. Is this something to be expected, is there a workaround, or a suggestion of where to be looking for a solution?

justwantin wrote:Is this something to be expected, is there a workaround, or a suggestion of where to be looking for a solution?

These postings may interest you.

1. http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 823#p45080

2. http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... =15#p45103

3. http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... =15#p45104

4. http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... =75#p45413

There was no broadcom driver in the 000 module. Another release will be pushed out this week which contains the broadcom driver. In the meantime I will compile the broadcom driver for 32bit and upload it to the server.

Here you go:
http://dl.porteus.org/i486/testing/rc2/drivers/

@brokenman
Thank you very much for going to the bother, I'll give it a go today.

Also my apologies to the list for not posting in the Bugs list. I did not think that an rc would not have a separate list but rather than have problems posted in the Bugs list.

@brokenman
I converted your bcm tgz to an xzm and booted up but was unsuccessful in accesssing the broadcom wireless chip. I don't have access to any other computers to play with and use a gparted usb to set up a porteus usb. I'm traveling right , need internet access and have reverted to 3.1. I'll revisit this when I return home.

I also made a xzm of bcm driver for 64-bit ports-3.2rc2 system. Test okay on my Mac notebook pro 2013. Any interested, could find it from

http://diffusion.cgu.edu.tw/ftp/porteus/64bit/drivers

Activate it and execute by sudo

shell > sudo modprobe b43

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