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Title: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: tlinsley on January 22, 2013, 05:18:42 AM
Installed VSIDO in a vbox guest at work and liked it so much that I decided to install it on a spare partition in my personal laptop also.  Which leads me to a couple of things to brag about.


Thanks again for the wonderful work VastOne!

Next up, I plan to abuse it with FluxBox.   ;D
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Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: VastOne on January 22, 2013, 05:22:07 AM
Great to hear that tlinsley, impressive!  I also look forward to your FluxBox setup

Will you please detail exactly what you needed and had to do for the wifi and I will try to add that to the next build

Thanks again
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: tlinsley on January 22, 2013, 06:53:11 AM
Yeah, I do not entirely understand why it did not work "out of the box".  Your install places packages "b43-fwcutter" and "firmware-b43-installer" on the system.  Package "firmware-b43-installer" says in the description that it supports "BCM4322 (only 14e4:432b)".  According to lspci that is what I have.

tlinsleyvsido@vsido:~$ lspci -vnn -d 14e4:
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01)



Anyways, this is what I did:

tar xfvj broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mipsel.tar.bz2
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3/driver/wl_apsta/wl_prebuilt.o



All in all nothing too difficult.  Especially since I have done it hundreds of times in other distros.  For real fun, try making broadcom work in a Slackware distro.  Sheesh!


P.S.  Learned a valuable lesson in writing this post.  First write the post in Geany, then post it to forum.  Otherwise the dang forum expires the session and loses all you just wrote.  Grrrr.  :'(


2013-10-24: Updated code box for b43-fwcutter to reflect latest driver name.  Instructions verified working on "vsido_raptor_64bit_2013_10_21.iso".
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: VastOne on January 22, 2013, 01:33:01 PM
Thanks for this tlinsley...

And also for letting me know about the timeout.  I was not aware of it since it does not affect the administrator... Apologies for that

I have adjusted it so it will/should not happen again
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: Sector11 on January 22, 2013, 02:09:18 PM
@ tlinsley

9 minutes is good - especially considering the TV  :D

Just an opinion here, but if it ends in "box" it's not abuse.
whoa! did that rotten tomato come from the area of /root?
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: dizzie on January 23, 2013, 09:40:23 AM
Well done tlinsley!

Broadcom is a spawn from satan! been there done that, even with the right firmware and such, sometimes i even ended up with :
modprobe -r driver (take a sip of my coffee) then modprobe driver. One one of my systems i even had to use a tg3 driver (which is worse hehe)

I'll die a happy man if i dont have to use BC hardware again :-)
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: Digit on January 30, 2013, 01:16:55 PM
Quote from: tlinsley on January 22, 2013, 06:53:11 AM
P.S.  Learned a valuable lesson in writing this post.  First write the post in Geany, then post it to forum.  Otherwise the dang forum expires the session and loses all you just wrote.  Grrrr.  :'(

in every forum, repeat the mantra:

before every post, ctrl a, ctrl c.
before every send, ctrl a, ctrl c.
before every submit, ctrl a, ctrl c.
before every reply, ctrl a, ctrl c.
ctrl a, ctrl c.
ctrl a, ctrl c.
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: tlinsley on January 31, 2013, 04:03:39 AM
^^ Sage advice indeed!  And extra points for using keyboard instead of right click.   ;)
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: Digit on October 02, 2013, 06:17:23 PM
alas, this no longer works for me.   vimperator... y u gotta break my existing binds.   ... i'll find the way with vimperator yet...
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: statmonkey on October 02, 2013, 06:58:19 PM
@tlinsley thank you much for posting that broadcom stuff.  Was about to put the latest on one of my lappy's and just wandered in here.  Had completely gapped on the broadcom business (last thing on it was a net install from way back).  You just saved me a lot of headaches.
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: Digit on October 04, 2013, 10:26:18 PM
heh, i'm glad i bumped then.
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: surio on October 05, 2013, 03:16:55 AM
Given this bumped thread is about Broadcom, I want to pitch in with my experience as well.

I have Broadcom 4313 and I had to resort to ethernet/networking cable during install as well as for some time post install before getting wifi to work.

I checked the packages list of VSIDO and see that this package (brcmsmac) (http://"http://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-brcm80211%20") is not present. It would be a good addition for augmenting existing wifi driver support in VSIDO.

Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: tlinsley on October 05, 2013, 05:23:05 AM
@statmonkey - Awesome.  Happy to hear you are "headache-free".

@Yes I have heard the 4313 is the most evil of the Broadcom spawn.  Hmm looks like that package would add little overhead (54.3 kB) to the iso...
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: VastOne on October 05, 2013, 05:25:56 AM
I will add firmware-brcm80211 to the next ISO build...

Thanks for the input and suggestions!   :-*
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: tlinsley on October 25, 2013, 03:38:12 AM
Just installed "vsido_raptor_64bit_2013_10_21.iso".  Awesome as always!  In the process of doing the post-install Broadcom Boogie, I discovered the driver name has changed in the latest "b43-fwcutter".  Updated the relevant post (reply #2 above) accordingly, in case anyone should find it useful.
Title: Re: And Another Successful VSIDO Install
Post by: VastOne on October 25, 2013, 03:19:45 PM
Thank you tlinsley!

I appreciate this and your support!