so i’ve heard from numerous people complain about the difficulty of broadcom wireless cards on linux, and i agree, it was not anything straigtforward.


After finding b43 info on linuxwireless.org i took there pasted info on

0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)

and pasted it to a simple shell script

wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-011
make
cd ..
export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR=”/lib/firmware”
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod
sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w “$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR” wl_apsta.o

while that was going on, i built the latestwicd in the SlackBuilds.org 12.1 repo, you can go here


after adding /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd to rc.local to start on boot, i rebooted, and magically networks are discoverd and availble to connect to !
i’m only on a WEP network right now, so maybe i’ll have some issues when i need wpa, but for now, we’re gravy.

vb

there is always a couple of ways to do things. for the google gadgets for you desktop, it is its own seperate application. while for windows and mac, they have packaged it all together.while for linux there has been a seperate, not so publicized project for support.

so two ways of going about this for slackware, Build It or repackage it. the SlackBuild in my pub/src/ is a perfectly viable solution if you have all the build dependencies. Otherwise, just like my last post you can get their RPMS and use my repackaging script, to include all their installation scripts.

google-gadgets-qt-0.10.1-5.1.i586.rpm and the corresponding slackpkg google-gadgets-qt-0.10.1-i586-5.1.tgz

google-gadgets-0.10.1-5.1.i586.rpm and the corresponding slackpkg google-gadgets-0.10.1-i586-5.1.tgz

enjoy