Gentoo wireless drivers

b43 and b43legacy are drivers for the b/g/n family of wireless chips that Broadcom produces. Note: Broadcom USB devices are handled by the brcmfmac driver. b43legacy: supports BCM Rev 2 and cards that have only b capability.  · Solved it! I unmerged everything (again), updated the kernel to r1 with kernel ieeeset to modular (can't be removed from menuconfig) and ran the remove script.  · I recently rebuilt my windows laptop to Gentoo. The Live CD ran Wifi fine, but once I built gentoo I got no wlan0. Machine is a 6 year old Dell e, which is way to close to a modern machine in performance to just junk and start with a new machine. (kg, ghz dual, 4gb, wireless n, drive.).

The RTLAU driver requires the Linux wireless extensions (wext) driver. The RTLAU adapters listed in working devices support hot-plugging. BCM adapters are USB and have a Mbit/s maximum data rate, therefore they cannot support the theoretical Mbit/s data rate of 5 GHz channels. [*] Networking support [*] Wireless cfg - wireless configuration API [ ] nl testmode command [ ] enable developer warnings [ ] cfg certification onus [*] enable powersave by default [ ] cfg DebugFS entries [ ] support CRDA [ ] cfg wireless extensions compatibility Generic IEEE Networking Stack (mac) [ ] Minstrel *** Some wireless drivers. Bluetooth headset — describes the configuration of Bluetooth headsets within Gentoo Linux. Bluetooth input devices — describes the setup of Bluetooth input devices, for example a bluetooth mouse, on a Linux system. Bluetooth Network Aggregation Point — covers the setup of a Bluetooth Network Aggregation Point (NAP) on Gentoo Linux.

There are some more variables that can help to get the wireless up and running due to driver or environment problems. Gentoo Installation Guide with configs provided. Install the closed-source driver broadcom-sta, remap kernel modules, remove all wireless modules and. If a WiFi connection is needed while installing Gentoo, note that the Gentoo minimal install CD has a limited number of drivers available.