Broadcom 4311 Wireless Drivers error

rewrite · 2010-07-09 03:05:52

Okay, sorry for going super newbie on everything. First off, I checked both Arch Installation guides. I checked the Broadcom section in the wiki. I'm trying to install arch linux on an old (2007) Lenovo 3000 c100 laptop, to revive it and make it better. However it had a broadcom driver which I know isn't supported by Linux. Luckily for me, there was a driver for it: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php on that page. I download the 32-bit and put it on a flash drive, since I don't have an internet connection from it, and used mount to mount the flash drive. After trying to install the driver through pacman, it said the package was either "invalid" or "corrupted'. Just great. I tried doing many different things. Including re-downloading. Same. I really appreciate any help. thanks

Mmarzex · 2010-07-09 03:12:39

Thats because what you download is a tar ball not a pacman package so you can build it following the readme on the wiki for the broadcom wl or you could download it from the aur and use makepkg, I personally used the aur method it was a lot easier then building from the tar ball.

Wiki link read regardless of which option you choose to do: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bro … stallation
AUR PACKAGE: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514

rewrite · 2010-07-09 03:35:00

I was following the instructions on this page, and when I ran this:

# modprobe lib80211_crypt_tkip
# modprobe wl

I got the message "FATAL: Module wl not found";

Mmarzex · 2010-07-09 03:49:18

Did you use the AUR package or the tar ball. Because I find that using the tar ball it doesn't get the module working correctly sometimes. Your best bet would be to do this download this file http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broad … -wl.tar.gz

Then run the following commands

 
tar zxvf broadcom-wl.tar.gz
cd broadcom-wl
makepkg -si

Then run these commands

 rmmod b43 ssb
modprobe wl

Then make sure you black list b43 and ssb in your rc.conf file and add wl to your modules in your rc.conf and if you are going to be using encryption then also add lib80211_crypt_tkip.

rewrite · 2010-07-09 06:05:18

Okay. After trying the first command, I get this error:

gzip: dtdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Not sure what went wrong. How strange. Thanks for the help

tomk · 2010-07-09 06:43:55

rewrite wrote:

it had a broadcom driver which I know isn't supported by Linux.

What chipset is it using? The kernel's b43 driver supports a lot more broadcom devices than it used to - it's under constant development.

archman-cro · 2010-07-09 08:35:48

Guys, this stuff (from AUR, etc...) is not necessary. I've used this method for bcm4311 (b43 driver) and it works correctly:

1. Download broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 from http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/
2. Make sure you have b43-fwcutter installed.
3. Follow the 'You are using the b43 driver from linux-2.6.25 or newer' part here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Easy and works good.

rewrite · 2010-07-09 22:02:21

Oh whoa, thanks so much that actually worked. And that was all I had to do. Pretty easy. Thanks

archman-cro · 2010-07-09 23:25:03

I'm glad you got it working. Have fun!

Ben9250 · 2010-07-10 11:14:12

In future reference, if you have an ethernet/cable connection to the net, plug your laptop in there after an install, boot it up and then ping google to see if you have internet (you should have) then use pacman to download yaourt and then do yaourt -S broadcom-wl and it will do all the building stuff for you. It saved me time when I had to reinstall everything after royally screwing up the boot manager.

tomk · 2010-07-10 13:19:18

Ben9250 - please read the entire thread carefully before replying. rewrite does not need the wl driver because the b43 driver works for him.

archman-cro · 2010-07-10 16:00:57

There is no sense in going with all this aur hacking when you can just cp the file in /lib/firmware how I wrote and that's it.

@rewrite: Please mark the thread as solved by editing the first post, if you've solved your problem.

Ben9250 · 2010-07-10 18:42:53

@ Tonk My apologies, when they mentioned broadcom-wl in the method (1. Download broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 from http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/) I thought it was the same thing and thought to mention it. I myself was told once that the b43 driver would work for me (in fact my card was metioned on several driver sites as part of this series od cards as I recall) and I would need the fwcutter (indeed I did in ubuntu) yet it was what I posted that enede up working easiest for me in the end oddly. So I thought it might be of some help.

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