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Locosway

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From: Anaheim, CA, USA.

Registered: 2011-10-04

Posts: 12

Broadcom wifi chipset not showing adapter

I have a BCM4313 which is using the brcmsmac module, but iwconfig, ip addr, and 'ls /sys/class/net/' do not show my wifi adapter.

For the record, in any other distro that has more automation my wifi card works right out of the box.

I was able to setup a wifi connection in the network-manager, but I can't use it.

[root@moniker ~]# ls /sys/class/net/
eth0  lo

I tried to rmmod and modprobe the module as some articles suggested, but that didn't do anything either.

Any help would be appreciated.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: Broadcom wifi chipset not showing adapter

Did you blacklist the bcma module? The wiki says "The bcma module can prevent some cards from showing up and may need to be blacklisted" but there is no "can" and "may", bcma and brcmsmac are for sure in conflict, so you need to blacklist bcma.

Locosway

Member

From: Anaheim, CA, USA.

Registered: 2011-10-04

Posts: 12

Re: Broadcom wifi chipset not showing adapter

Did you blacklist the bcma module? The wiki says "The bcma module can prevent some cards from showing up and may need to be blacklisted" but there is no "can" and "may", bcma and brcmsmac are for sure in conflict, so you need to blacklist bcma.

Yeah, I guess a reboot is all I needed after doing all that. Thanks.