Broadcom brcm80211 installation from source

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Published on 2012-02-07T11:29:57Z Indexed on 2012/03/30 23:42 UTC
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Hello need help to get my wifi chipset working.I have brcmsmac driver and i would like to have brcm80211 chipset up and running. I have tried everything but nothing helped?

  1. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
  2. Copy brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw and brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw to /lib/firmware/brcm (or wherever firmware is normally installed on your system).

    still got brcmsmac ??

then i tryed

  1. git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
  2. cd ~/linux-next/drivers/staging/brcm80211 nano Makefile

the problem is that there is no brcm82011 folder?? do i follow cd ~/linux-next-a694cb1 like the link sad? i have Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 [14e4:4727]

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