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2bdkid

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From: Indiana, USA

Registered: 2014-05-13

Posts: 7

Can't get b43 or r8169 driver working in installation

Hello Arch Linux Form users! This is my first post.

I have been using Arch for a few months now on my netbook but now I am trying to install it on my larger laptop.
The problem I am having is I cannot get the b43 driver working during the installation to get wifi.
I also cannot get the r8169 driver working for LAN.

Any help would be appreciated!

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,917

Re: Can't get b43 or r8169 driver working in installation

What is your wireless chip set.  Look at the output of lspci -nn | grep Broad

ewaller$@$odin ~/.config [1]1004 %lspci -nn | grep Broad
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
ewaller$@$odin ~/.config 1005 %

We need the numbers of the form BCMxxxx and [xxxx:xxxx]

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2bdkid

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From: Indiana, USA

Registered: 2014-05-13

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Re: Can't get b43 or r8169 driver working in installation

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Can't get b43 or r8169 driver working in installation

Verify that you followed this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … e#Wireless
Verify the module loaded

lsmod | grep \^b43
b43                   370053  0 
ewaller$@$odin ~/.config 1008 %

Verify the firmware loaded

ewaller$@$odin ~/.config 1005 %journalctl | grep firmware
Apr 26 17:32:55 odin kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)

and tell me the name of your wireless card as reported by ip link

Last edited by ewaller (2014-05-13 01:40:48)

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WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Can't get b43 or r8169 driver working in installation

I have an RTL8111/8168 and when I got the machine a couple years back, the r8169 module was just awful with it.  I discovered the r8168 module in the official repos and that worked beautifully.  So you may want to give that a whirl.

Since then I had to have the board replaced during a warranty repair.  So after that I ended up with a seemingly different piece of hardware, as the r8169 module works just fine with it.

As for your wireless card, Broadcoms are kind of funky.  There are three modules which support broadcom cards, none of which support them all.  It is good to know about this page when deciding which to use.  In your case, the b43 module should work, but that table indicates it is only partially supported (whatever that may mean).  But you will need the b43-firmware as the wiki page ewaller linked to indicates.