ArchLinux System installation Bo Tong b43xx series Wireless Card driver

My wireless network card is the B43XX series of Bo Tong, we all know that Bo Tong for its WiFi card on the Gnu/linux support is notoriously bad.

With  lspci-vnn-d 14e4:  grep

Look at the next network interface, found no wireless network interface, so I think it should be no driver support

(Note: For IP and ifconfig see this article: https://linux.cn/article-4326-1.html)

First confirm your network card model:

With  lspci-vnn-d 14e4:  grep

Mine is the BCM4318 model. 14e4 on behalf of Bo Tong's brand.

After checking your network card model, enter the following website to download the driver.

http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2

(Note: BROADCOM-WL is a proprietary Broadcom STA driver for Bo Tong

BROADCOM-WL-5.100.138.TAR.BZ2 is the latest version of this article you can also enter the http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources to choose the driver firmware)

Then go to the website Download b43-fwcutter Command tool (source code)

http://bues.ch/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-018.tar.bz2

(If no network environment can be downloaded on the other machine, then copy into the USB drive.) Put it on the archlinux and tar for a moment.)

After decompression into the extracted source directory with make install to compile and install to enter the directory yo.

(The newly installed archlinux may not have the make can install with the Pacman, without the network environment, on the mirror station on the need and rely down.

Remember to check the Pacman user manual for yourself. Install make can not, or install GCC, made is called GCC. Can own Baidu to make and GCC relationship)

With make, enter the BROADCOM-WL-5.100.138.TAR.BZ2 directory you just unzipped.

B43-fwcutter-w /lib/firmware WL_APSTA.O

The WL_APSTA.O behind is the driver file, if not enter the directory, then write the full path.

loading the BROADCOM-WL kernel module

wlThe module may conflict with other modules and cannot be loaded. wlbefore you load the module, remove b43 or other modules that may cause conflicts:

# Rmmod B43

If ssb loaded, please also remove:

# Rmmod SSB

Note:Error loading ssbMay cause the wireless interface to not be created.

Load wl module:

# modprobe WL

After installing the drive, you can restart the system to try to see if it is automatically loaded

grep b43

can view drive status

ArchLinux System installation Bo Tong b43xx series Wireless Card driver