Acer 3400LMI manual Installing Wlan, Wlan tools, Wlan firmware

F8­x86_64 on the Acer Ferrari 3400LMi

However, with F8 the b43 kernel module is mature, stable and ready for production. How to get the b43 kernel module to work is described below. To use the NdisWrapper please refer to the FC4 version of this document, found at http://ferrari.databa.se/3400/fc4/.

12.1 Installing WLAN

First we need to check and install some software so we have the tools we need.

12.1.1WLAN tools

1.First we needed to make sure that the b43 kernel module is compiled and properly loaded during system startup. For standard F8 kernels this is the case, but if you compile your own brew you need to build it as a module:

# dmesg grep b43

b43­phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found

b43­phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 2, Type 2, Revision 2

b43­phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2

# lsmod grep b43
b43	150001	0
rfkill	14801	1	b43
mac80211	127949	1	b43
input_polldev	12113	1	b43
ssb	38725	1	b43

2.Next we need to make sure that the wireless­tools package is installed on our system:

#rpm ­q wireless­tools wireless­tools­29­0.2.pre22.fc8

If not, we need to install it:

# yum install wireless­tools

or

#rpm ­Uvh wireless­tools­29­0.2.pre22.fc8.x86_64.rpm

3.Finally we will need the b43­fwcutter package. Make sure that it is installed:

#rpm ­q b43­fwcutter

b43­fwcutter­008­1.fc8

or install it:

# yum install b43­fwcutter

12.1.2WLAN firmware

4.Now we need to download the Broadcom driver, so we may extract the

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