Re: No WIFI under HP Probook 4515s

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Zoltan Hoppar <hopparz <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi guys,
> Currently I have run out of ideas about how to activate, and create an working
> wifi on my new machine. It uses an Broadcom PHY - Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 
> 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01).
> I have followed the the advices at linuxwireless.org - but no effect. Maybe I
> have made mistakes, or something went wrong - I couldn't tell that.

Hi,
this is the relevant page:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

...
device firmware installation
Fedora
...
Next, download the Windows driver:
do not use the download link blindly; first check which driver is the latest:

http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/

broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.1.tar.bz2                   16-Jan-2008 03:33           
 3846454
broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.2.tar.bz2                   28-Sep-2008 20:42           
 3877524
broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.3.tar.bz2                   21-Dec-2009 16:46           
 3906094
broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2                     08-Oct-2008 15:11           
 3888794
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2                     19-Feb-2009 18:46           
 5986780
broadcom-wl-4.80.17.0.tar.bz2                      14-Jan-2008 04:09           
  869561
broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2                      14-Jan-2008 04:09           
  904072
broadcom-wl-4.80.9.2.tar.bz2                       20-Jun-2006 04:45           
  857282

According to the above list the latest driver is:
broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.3.tar.bz2                   21-Dec-2009 16:46           
 3906094

So, make sure that you download this one as instructed:
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.3.tar.bz2

Now continue installing this driver as instructed.
...
Reboot.

JB



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