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Broadcom 802.11 Linux Sta Wireless Driver Source
Problem:
B43 and b43legacy are drivers for the 802.11 B/G/N family of wireless chips that Broadcom produces. The choice of which driver your card uses depends on the revision level of the 802.11 core. If your card is a BCM4306 Rev 2 or only has 802.11b capability, it uses b43legacy. All other models use b43. This number is read by the driver ssb, and the correct choice for your device is made at that point. I've seen some confusion when it comes to installing the wireless drivers for Broadcom's BCM43142 802.11b/g/n card, specifically with Kali or other Debian based distributions. If you're running Linux kernel. This is the driver that is included in the current OpenWrt builds. It is also in the mainline Linux kernel. This driver supports most of the current available Broadcom WiFi cores. It has support for station (STA), AP, AdHoc, Mesh and other modes, but it just supports 802.11g rates and does not support 802.11g operating in the 5GHz band.
After installing Linux Mint 12 on my Compaq Presario CQ40-410AU (x64 bit) laptop, the wireless LAN Broadcom BCM4312 802.11/bg doesn't work out of the box.
Solution:
I found this site, linuxwireless.org, very helpful in solving this problem.
b43 and b43legacy are drivers for the 802.11 B/G/N family of wireless chips that Broadcom produces. The choice of which driver your card uses depends on the revision level of the 802.11 core. If your card is a BCM4306 Rev 2 or only has 802.11b capability, it uses b43legacy. All other models use b43. This number is read by the driver ssb, and the correct choice for your device is made at that point. The drivers are called bcm43xx in mainline kernels, and b43 and b43legacy in wireless-2.6 and 2.6.24 and later.
Note: See also Ubuntu WifiDocs on bcm43xx drivers.
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Driver Installation:
1. Open the Terminal window (this is similar to M$ Windows command prompt)
Note: You can access the Terminal application from Menu --> Accessories --> Terminal. Optionally, you can use the shortcut by pressing ALT+F2, type gnome-terminal then press the enter key to launch it.
2. Execute the following command from Terminal window to find out whether your PCI device is supported by the b43 and b43legacy drivers.
Terminal Command:
lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
Result Sample: My Device
![Laptop wireless drivers Laptop wireless drivers](https://i.stack.imgur.com/e7u38.png)
09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
3. Check the result and compare the PCI-ID (highlighted above) of your WLAN device with the driver support table posted on linuxwireless.org.
4. Once you have confirmed that your WLAN device is supported, you may proceed to installing the driver by running the following command from Terminal window.
Additional Note:
In my case, this command raised the following error..
'An unsupported BCM4312 Low-Power (LP-PHY) device was found.'
I was able to fix this by installing the appropriate LP-PHY driver.
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
Active5 years, 3 months ago
I've been wondering for some time now, what does STA stand for? Stanley hydraulic post drivers for mac.
Context: Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver
Example: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
Example: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
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2 Answers
STA seems to be short for Station in the broadcom sense.I might however read it wrong.
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Source:
Qoute: b43
This is the open source driver built by the community based on reverse engineered specifications of the proprietary Broadcom driver. This is the driver that is included in the current OpenWrt builds. It is also in the mainline Linux kernel. This driver supports most of the current available Broadcom WiFi cores. It has support for station (STA), AP, AdHoc, Mesh and other modes, but it just supports 802.11g rates and does not support 802.11g operating in the 5GHz band.
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From the context of the package I would say it means 'static'. This is a hybrid binary driver which is agnostic to the specific versions and distributions. Static linking most of the time makes binaries easier to distribute to different user environments (at the cost of program being larger). This would suggest, that STA is a short-hand 'static'.
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