I don't know what a PET is. I don't know what a kernel is. Complete. Linux. Noobie.
I have a Broadcom B43 (lspci = B4306) internal wireless wifi card. I managed to load the b43-firmware-LP-PHY.pet on the computer with the OS. Somehow, I was able to 'see' the wireless networks, but unable to connect. Really not sure what changed. Now, I cannot even see the wireless networks. I have been able to blacklist b43, ssb, and b43+ssb to no avail. wlan0 is still there, but b43 & b43legacy both give me an error.
Now, when I scan for wireless, I get the error:
Failed to raise interface wlan0.
Failed command was: ifconfig wlan0 up.
Error returned was:
ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory.
rfkill indicates that my wireless is not hard blocked.
Any other ideas to get rid of this error?
UPDATE:
In searching, I found this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67646
I ran
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# dmesg
and I see some lines repeated that may be the culprit.
As indicated above, I have done enough groundwork toknow that I have a wireless card that may either be b43 or b43leagacy. I don't see a next step for Puppy at the website. I was hoping that the file b43-firmware-LP-PHY.pet is the driver that I needed."b43/ucode5.fw" not found
"b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
You must go to http://wireless/kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
Any suggestions on finding this file and getting my wireless running?
SOLUTION - Added afterwards If the final result of computer software is not as expected, start from the beginning and re-trace the step. Wlan0 now seeing wireless and connecting to them.