Hi, Finally I managed to start wifi (BCM 43XX chip set ) with ndiswrapper. Any one interested, let me know.
I need small help as regards LCD brightness on Laptops. Every time I start, debian, the brightness of laptop is changed. Is there any way, I can stop debian from interfering with brightness setting?
Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022.
Hi Mukund, On 09/02/2009 04:39 PM, Mukund Deshmukh wrote:
Hi, Finally I managed to start wifi (BCM 43XX chip set ) with ndiswrapper. Any one interested, let me know.
I am interested in knowing why you went with ndiswrapper. Could you please paste the output of lspic ? As far as I am aware (having a broadcom wireless card myself, and suffering through the pains of using various hacks to get it to work for almost a year), most of the 43xx cards are now natively supported using the wl module (and possibly the b43-openfwwf firmware package).
If you are interested in configuring your wifi card to run with native linux drivers, let me know the disto you are using and the output of lspci.
I need small help as regards LCD brightness on Laptops. Every time I start, debian, the brightness of laptop is changed. Is there any way, I can stop debian from interfering with brightness setting?
That's your power management setting. There are various places where this can be changed. Most commonly recommended if you are using GNOME: go to System->Preferences->Power Management. There you can customize screen brightness on AC as well as battery power.
cheers, - steve
I am interested in knowing why you went with ndiswrapper. Could you please paste the output of lspic ? As far as I am aware (having a broadcom wireless card
I tried b43, b43legacy, then downloaded source from broadcom site, compiled wl, but driver failed to work (no wlan0). I tried fwcutter also. Finally shifted ndiswrapper, and it worked.
myself, and suffering through the pains of using various hacks to get it to work for almost a year), most of the 43xx cards are now natively supported using the wl module (and possibly the b43-openfwwf firmware package).
If you are interested in configuring your wifi card to run with native linux drivers, let me know the disto you are using and the output of lspci.
The distro is debian and chipset is 4312.
Yes, I would be interested in native support.
I need small help as regards LCD brightness on Laptops. Every time I start, debian, the brightness of laptop is changed. Is there any way, I can stop debian from interfering with brightness setting?
That's your power management setting. There are various places where this can be changed. Most commonly recommended if you are using GNOME: go to System->Preferences->Power Management. There you can customize screen brightness on AC as well as battery power.
The brightness is set to maximum :-(, during kernel loading... I work on CLI.
Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022.
Hi Mukund,
On 09/02/2009 09:09 PM, Mukund Deshmukh wrote:
[...snip...] I tried b43, b43legacy, then downloaded source from broadcom site, compiled wl, but driver failed to work (no wlan0). I tried fwcutter also. Finally shifted ndiswrapper, and it worked. [...snip...] The distro is debian and chipset is 4312.
Yes, I would be interested in native support.
Cool. The reason I asked for the lspci output was because some broadcom cards report the same device string for different PCI ids:
http://wiki.debian.org/wl#SupportedDevices
I too have a bcm 4312 card: $ lspci -nn ... 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01) ...
...which is supported using the wl module. However, this native support appeared only recently. So, you might want to check with the latest kernel on your system.
I am running Fedora 11 with kernel 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.x86_64 and the wl driver version kmod-wl-5.10.91.9-3.fc11.8.x86_64.
Since you use debian, following these instructions might work for you: http://wiki.debian.org/wl
NOTE: you *have* to blacklist any existing driver to make this work properly.
[steve@laptop ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl-blacklist.conf # modules blacklisted for broadcom-wl blacklist bcm43xx blacklist ssb blacklist b43 blacklist ndiswrapper [steve@laptop ~]$
Let me know how it goes.
I need small help as regards LCD brightness on Laptops. Every time I start, debian, the brightness of laptop is changed. Is there any way, I can stop debian from interfering with brightness setting?
That's your power management setting. There are various places where this can be changed. Most commonly recommended if you are using GNOME: go to System->Preferences->Power Management. There you can customize screen brightness on AC as well as battery power.
The brightness is set to maximum :-(, during kernel loading... I work on CLI.
ah ok. cool ! I was a exclusively CLI guy for years, before they stopped caring about making the cli look good (ie: good console SVGA modes) ...though I still run a minimal windowmaker desktop.
For cli, my guess would be, play with /proc/acpi/video/*/*/brightness ...or some such. For me, this worked:
[root@laptop ~]# ls -l /proc/acpi/video/*/DD0*/brightness -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-09-02 17:03 /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD01/brightness -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-09-02 17:03 /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-09-02 17:03 /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD03/brightness -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-09-02 17:03 /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD04/brightness -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-09-02 17:03 /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD05/brightness [root@laptop ~]# cat /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD0*/brightness <not supported> <not supported> levels: 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 current: 100 <not supported> <not supported> [root@laptop ~]# echo 20 > /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD03/brightness [root@laptop ~]#
HTH, cheers, - steve
Dear Steve, Thanks for the link, and it worked. Now I am happy to have native driver..
Since you use debian, following these instructions might work for you: http://wiki.debian.org/wl
For cli, my guess would be, play with /proc/acpi/video/*/*/brightness ...or some such. For me, this worked:
It works, and the function keys also works, I think acpi module in kernel is playing with brightness, will black list acpi and then check.
Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022.
Hey Mukund,
On 09/03/2009 03:03 PM, Mukund Deshmukh wrote:
Dear Steve, Thanks for the link, and it worked. Now I am happy to have native driver..
excellent !
[...snip...] It works, and the function keys also works, I think acpi module in kernel is playing with brightness, will black list acpi and then check.
Well, I'd be surprised if the acpi module didn't do that :). The module is *supposed* to control the brightness (besides other power management and acpi related actions).
glad I could help, cheers, - steve
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Mukund Deshmukhmukund.deshmukh@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the link, and it worked. Now I am happy to have native driver..
Great! Did you know Ubuntu would've probably picked up this driver automatically? I am not rooting for Ubuntu here, but I have had a good experience with it on the desktop so I'm sharing it. Besides, Ubuntu is a flavor of Debian.
It works, and the function keys also works, I think acpi module in kernel is playing with brightness, will black list acpi and then check.
The issue is due to multiple sets of incompatibilities. In my case, the driver reported wrong number of brightnesses. For some reason the same problem doesn't occur with Ubuntu.
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