I am attempting to enable my wireless interface in Slax Linux, so far, I know the driver I need is brcmsmac, since I have a broadcom card; and this work in Slackware.The driver is available and does not show any errors when I load it with:# modprobe brcmsmacBut no new interface is loaded.Here is I've tried:# lspci | grep Network03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)# ifconfig -aeth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500        ether e8:11:32:5f:ff:5e  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0        device interrupt 41  base 0xc000  lo: flags=8<LOOPBACK>  mtu 16436        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0Any suggestions?I am sorry @slm, here's dmesg output# dmesg | grep brcmsmacbrcmsmac bcma0:0: mfg 4bf core 812 rev 24 class 0 irq 16ieee80211 phy0: brcmsmac: fail to load firmware brcm/bcm43xx-0.fwieee80211 phy0: brcmsmac: Failed to find firmware usually in /lib/firmware/brcmbrcmsmac: brcms_bcma_probe: brcms_attach failed!
brcmsmac does not work
linux;drivers;wifi;gnu;broadcom
Given the output from dmesg I would suggest downloading the firmware from the broadcom site. Check out that link, there are pretty detailed instructions on how to download and install the firmware that the dmesg error message is mentioning.general steps1. download firmware file: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git2. copy brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw and brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw to /lib/firmware/brcm3. Use the nvram file installed in your system and copy it to /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac-sdio.txt The firmware can be found in the linux-firmware repository.NOTE:For 4329: cp brcm/brcmfmac4329.bin /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac-sdio.binFor 4330: cp brcm/brcmfmac4330.bin /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac-sdio.bin4. Run modprobe brcmsmac (or something like that)I may be missing steps but it will be something along those lines. Again consult the broadcom link I mentioned above for further details.