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Cerales

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Registered: 2011-01-04

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[SOLVED] Segmentation fault with wireless tools on Broadcom card

I'm trying to get wireless networking to work on a Lenovo E530 laptop.

uname -r

3.6.2-1-ARCH

lspci -vnn | grep Broad

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4359]
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0607]

I've installed the broadcom-wl package. Although the Arch wiki Broadcom page lists the BCM43228 as one of the cards supported by the B43 drivers, I couldn't even get my device to show up with commands like 'ip link' under the B43 driver, and my device is listed as 'untested' for B43 on linuxwireless.org

I've blacklisted B43, bcma and ssb.

I set the interface up:

ip link set wlan0 up

And try to scan:

iwlist wlan0 scan

I get the following error output (sorry about the image link - I couldnt get the iwlist stderr to redirect for some reason):

http://i.imgur.com/TEc14.jpeg

Any ideas?

Last edited by Cerales (2012-10-16 22:45:06)

Cerales

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Registered: 2011-01-04

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] Segmentation fault with wireless tools on Broadcom card

By the way, if I try to run the same command again, or any related commands like ip link, they hang indefinitely and I can't even stop them with sigint.

maplebeats

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Registered: 2012-03-17

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Re: [SOLVED] Segmentation fault with wireless tools on Broadcom card

the newest broadcom-wl had fixed this problem

Cerales

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Registered: 2011-01-04

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] Segmentation fault with wireless tools on Broadcom card

That's great news! Yeah, just looked at the passage in the AUR and I see that it's been updated. Nice timing.

e: I'll mark this solved tonight once I've had a chance to verify it.

Last edited by Cerales (2012-10-15 22:51:39)