[Assist] BCM4313 [14e4:4727] with libre linux

Julia Leute juliamohana at gmx.de
Mon Mar 19 15:32:19 GMT 2012


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Dear Help,

currently I'm an Arch Linux user and I would like to free my Arch
Linux to Parabola.

But I'm afraid that my wireless will stop working afterwards, and that
would be very bad, because atm I only can use wireless, if it breaks,
it will be very uncomfortable to fix it...

I have a broadcom chip:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
[14e4:4727] (rev 01)

which works perfectly fine with brcmsmac in Arch Linux. But as far as
I know brcmsmac uses proprietary firmware. So it's not included in
your kernel version, right?

I know that one can use openfwwf with b43 in principal, but b43
doesn't support my chip as far as I know.

So, is there a way to run Parabola on this netbook, or will
linux-libre break my wireless?

Thanks,
Julia
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