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hello everybody

I can't make my wireless work. I installed b43 firmware following this wiki http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/H ... eless_card

but still, no wireless... I'm quite a newbie, can you give me any suggestions?

Output of lspci please. Probably a very recent broadcom chipset. There recently have been other posts regarding those.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1705
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648
00:01.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 1714
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1709
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 170b
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:12.2 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.2 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SMBus Controller (rev 13)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson LPC Bridge (rev 11)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:16.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:16.2 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 0 (rev 43)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 6
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 5
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 7
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
01:00.1 SD Host controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57765 Memory Card Reader (rev 10)
01:00.2 System peripheral: Broadcom Corporation Device 16be (rev 10)
01:00.3 System peripheral: Broadcom Corporation Device 16bf (rev 10)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4358

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
01:00.1 SD Host controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57765 Memory Card Reader (rev 10)
01:00.2 System peripheral: Broadcom Corporation Device 16be (rev 10)
01:00.3 System peripheral: Broadcom Corporation Device 16bf (rev 10)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4358

Looks like Shador hit the nail on the head.

This looks like it could be your driver:

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

Failing that, you COULD use ndiswrapper if there aren't any easily usable linux native drivers for it (I know the purists are all going to have that little voice in their head screaming "noooooo!!!" but really it's not a bad workaround)

Either way, let us know how it goes. = )

Have a look here: http://salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3562
Installing that kernel by the instructions there should be the most straightforward solution.