I just installed Linux Mint 11 main on my Dell Latitude D600. Clicking the networking icon in the task tray shows "wireless device. Device not ready (firmware missing)"
rfkill list shows:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
inxi -N shows:
Network: Card-1 Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller driver b43-pci-bridge
Card-2 Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet driver tg3
The Additional Drivers panel says "No Proprietary Drivers are in use on this system."
lspci shows:
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
I then installed b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43legacy-installer and rebooted. I used legacy because my card is rev 02.
lspci -vvnn run as root shows:
02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card [1028:0001]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 0: Memory at fafee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb
I have also tried installing firmware-b43-installer with the same result.
It seems that this thing simply isn't recognized. I've tried so many different solutions from the forums and google that I eventually wiped the drive and reinstalled just to be sure I hadn't spoiled something with all my poking around. All of the above is from my third fresh install in two days. I was hoping not to have to post yet another "OMG, I can't get broadcom to work!" post, but here I am. I'm at the end of my rope.
I'm a fairly knowledgeable Windows tech, and I have a basic user knowledge of solaris and AIX, but most of this admin-level stuff is new to me, so use little words...
Help? Please and thank you?
--Kirby
