Open DocSwitch opened 1 month ago
I did some research, and boy, is this a mess.
The Wii has a Broadcom BCM4318 wireless interface chip, who gets picked up by the kernel.
The kernel tries to load the firmware for it, and promptly fails multiple times. This despite the fact that the firmware (called b43
) is indeed present on the disk... but as a kernel object module. No idea if that's how it should be.
Somehow, the network manager manages to pick up a wlan1
wireless interface, but it's disabled by default, for some reason.
Enabling it doesn't yield any results; wpa_supplicant
fails miserably trying to do something, anything, with it. RIP.
If I run iwconfig
, it tells me that wlan1
has no wireless extensions; that leads me to believe that said wlan1
is a bogus interface and I have no idea where it's coming from.
Delightful.
Unrelated to this issue but interesting anyways: Xubuntu 9 recognizes the wireless chip as a Broadcom BCM2045A. So I guess nobody really knows what firmware is the right one?
Every time I try to update my WiFi settings with the provided script, it fails to initialize the wireless interface, and ifconfig only shows the loopback interface.