Internal Broadcom WiFi using Salix Xfce 14.2beta1

[goossbears]

Using Salix Xfce 14.2beta1 (32-bit, i586/i686) as per last week's viewtopic.php?f=17&t=6974

'lspci -vnn | grep 14e4' as per https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_in ... less_cards gives

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06:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)

'sudo dmesg | grep b43' gives

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[   15.150003] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[   15.165427] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 3, Type 2 (G), Revision 7
[   15.165455] b43-phy0: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, ID 0x2050, Revision 8, Version 0
[   15.733162] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/ucode5.fw failed with error -2
[   15.733213] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/ucode5.fw failed with error -2
[   15.742072] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode5.fw failed with error -2
[   15.742105] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode5.fw failed with error -2
[   15.742114] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[   15.742322] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
[   15.742531] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.

The Salix 14.1-specific build instructions at https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_in ... less_cards 1st yields

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Fetching slackbuild list from http://salix.hostingxtreme.com/sbo/14.2/...Download failed: 404
Fetching slackbuild list from http://salix.hostingxtreme.com/slkbuild/14.2/...Download failed: 404

Should the slackbuild repository listings within /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc and /etc/slapt-get/srcrc be edited back to the 14.1 revisions before the recommended b43-firmware can be installed?
If not, what are the alternative suggestions to best activate the Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 WiFi card??

TY for recommendations here.

[gapan]

Hi and welcome!

The answer is yes for slapt-srcrc, no for slapt-getrc.

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=6974#p40243

[goossbears]

The answer is yes for slapt-srcrc, no for slapt-getrc.

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=6974#p40243

TY for reply; the instructions there and at https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_in ... less_cards seemed to work as far as initially activating the Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 WiFi card.
Since Ethernet networking has already worked fine from the start, there is no "chicken and egg" situation as far as wired connectivity.
When attempting to connect to an up-and-running Wiress Access Point, though, there now remains the key error message (I'm guessing from Network Manager?) :

Connection failure
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Connection activation failed
(2) Active connection removed before it was initialized

Didn't find much help from previous postings on the similar subject here viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1313&hilit=b43 or here viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2742&p=17356&hilit ... ved#p17356 for Salix 13.1 :/



-g