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Slackware 13.37 and Broadcom wireless chip
Today I decided to install Slackware 13.37 into my 3 years old Dell Studio 1435. Ran into the same problem since this laptop is using a Broadcom wireless chip. Here are some of pointers to overcome this.
Beware, I’m running this as root. This post assumes you’ve installed Slackware 13.37.
Wireless
Check what kind of network chip are you using.
#lspci
#09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
#0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
Head over to Slackbuilds and download the Broadcom drivers. We’re gonna use this. http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/network/broadcom-sta/
Install the broadcom-sta.
After installing, if you run the iwconfig command you’ll get something like this.
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Inside the installation DVD, install wicd which is part of the /extras directory.
Run wicd daemon to start wicd
# /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd start
Run Wicd Network Manager (a GUI application). In the Preferences we need to set these settings
Wireless interface : eth1
Now we can use Wicd Network Manager to connect to our wireless networks.
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I am (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). I’m on 4GB RAM. Didn’t really bother about 64 bit until I saw the link and checked my System Monitor to find out I forgot to enable PAE (one facepalm for me).
Used 64 bit before (Slackware 13.1) but moved to Ubuntu since KDE seems to crash a lot with ATI Catalyst.
p/s: Yes, PAE is a hack.
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