Possible to install arch on a system with Broadcom wireless?

My netbook has a broadcom BCM4313 chipset. Kernel module: brcmsmac. The latest arch installer can't properly configure my network and I don't have a wired connection at this location. The system keeps spamming messages like this on the terminal every few seconds:
ieee80211 phy1: wl_ops_bbs_info_changed: qos enabled: false (implement)
ieee80211 phy1: brcmsmac: wl_ops_bss_info_changed: disassociated
ieee80211 phy1: wl_ops_bbs_info_changed: arp filtering: enabled false, count 0 (implement)
Is it even possible to install arch linux on a system with a broadcom chipset? Or is the kernel too old, should I use another module?
Thanks for your help!

treadlefish could you post the wifi info from "lspci -vnn"? Then I can check if we have the same card.
edit, here is mine:
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1795]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: wl
Last edited by Wilco (2012-02-27 22:03:37)

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