Salix OS on samsung rv511

[Jawad]

From the Arch Wiki:

Wi-Fi card does not work or show up after kernel upgrade (brcmsmac)

This is caused by the kernel using the bcma module instead of the brcmsmac module. The solution is to blacklist the bcma module. For instructions, see Kernel_modules#Blacklisting.
Note: This affects only Linux kernels 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. Since kernel 3.3, the brcmsmac module actually uses bcma, so bcma needs to be unblacklisted or the Wi-Fi interface will not appear.

Is the bcma module loaded on your system? Check with "lsmod | grep bcma" If not, then you may have to un-blacklist it.

root[jawad]# lsmod | grep bcma
bcma 21826 2 brcmsmac,b43

[Jawad]

Additionally do what I previously mentioned when you quoted me:

If that doesn't work check the firmware directory with:

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ls -l /lib/firmware/brcm

and give me a listing of the installed kernel related packages:

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slapt-get -search '^kernel-'

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root[jawad]# ls -l /lib/firmware/brcm
ls: cannot access /lib/firmware/brcm: No such file or directory

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root[jawad]# slapt-get -search '^kernel-'
Unknown token: CUSTO
kernel-firmware-2.6.37.6-noarch-2 [inst=yes]: kernel-firmware (Firmware installed by the kernel)
kernel-firmware-20120508git-noarch-1ab [inst=no]: kernel-firmware (Firmware for the kernel)
kernel-firmware-20120520git-noarch-1ab [inst=no]: kernel-firmware (Firmware for the kernel)
kernel-generic-2.6.37.6-x86_64-2 [inst=no]: kernel-generic (a general purpose SMP Linux kernel)
kernel-headers-2.6.37.6-x86-2 [inst=yes]: kernel-headers (Linux kernel include files)
kernel-headers-3.3.5-x86-2ab [inst=no]: kernel-headers (Linux kernel include files)
kernel-headers-3.3.6-x86-1ab [inst=no]: kernel-headers (Linux kernel include files)
kernel-huge-2.6.37.6-x86_64-2 [inst=yes]: kernel-huge (a fully-loaded SMP Linux kernel)
kernel-huge-recent-3.3.5-x86_64-1ab [inst=no]: huge (a fully-loaded SMP Linux kernel)
kernel-huge-recent-3.3.6-x86_64-1ab [inst=yes]: kernel-huge-recent (a fully-loaded SMP Linux kernel)
kernel-modules-2.6.37.6-x86_64-2 [inst=yes]: kernel-modules (Linux kernel modules)
kernel-modules-recent-3.3.5-x86_64-1ab [inst=no]: modules (Linux kernel modules)
kernel-modules-recent-3.3.6-x86_64-1ab [inst=yes]: kernel-modules-recent (Linux kernel modules)
kernel-source-2.6.37.6-noarch-2 [inst=no]: kernel-source (Linux kernel source)
kernel-source-recent-3.3.5-noarch-2ab [inst=no]: source (Linux kernel source)
kernel-source-recent-3.3.6-noarch-1ab [inst=no]: source (Linux kernel source)

thanks all

[Shador]

OK, two things.

First of all run slapt-get -i kernel-firmware to pull a more recent firmware package which includes that specific driver/chipset.

Apart from that please make sure that you're actually booting the new kernel. Check if the output of uname -v says 3.3.6 (and not 2.6.37.6). It probably does, but if it doesn't make sure that lilo loads the /boot/vmlinuz symlink, that file should link to vmlinuz-huge-recent and you should have called lilo -c.