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eric7900

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Registered: 2022-03-18

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Activation Problem

I just installed the latest Arch Linux on my Thinkpad X220. After installing the driver / firmware (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b43-firmware), I can see my wifi interface as below

nmcli device status

DEVICE   TYPE      STATE         CONNECTION
enp0s25  ethernet  connected     Wired connection 1
wlp3s0   wifi      disconnected  --
lo       loopback  unmanaged     --

But when I tried to connect to it, it failed as below,

nmcli device connect wlp3s0

Error: Failed to add/activate new connection: A 'wireless' setting is required if no AP path was given.

Then I tried to connect to my SSID, no double it failed again as below

 
nmcli device wifi connect SSID password "mypasswd"

Error: Failed to add/activate new connection: Not authorized to control networking. 

When I use

 sudo iw dev wlp3s0 scan | grep -i ssid 

it works and showed me all the available SSID.

Following some guidance in forum, I did something as below but nothing changed

 modprobe b43 

and

 sudo pkill wpa_supplicant && sudo pkill dhcpcd 

Here are some debugging messages:

sudo dmesg | grep firmware
platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2

journalctl -e | grep -i failed

Mar 18 07:55:23 x2201 dbus-daemon[343]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
Mar 18 07:55:24 x2201 pipewire[474]: mod.protocol-pulse: pulse-server 0x5645779e0080: failed to start server on 'unix:/run/user/1000/pulse/native': Address already in use
Mar 18 07:55:24 x2201 pipewire[474]: default: failed to create context: Address already in use
Mar 18 07:55:24 x2201 pipewire[477]: default: failed to create context: Resource temporarily unavailable
Mar 18 07:55:24 x2201 systemd[384]: pipewire.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 18 07:55:24 x2201 pipewire[485]: default: failed to create context: Resource temporarily unavailable
Mar 18 07:55:24 x2201 systemd[384]: pipewire.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 18 07:55:24 x2201 dbus-daemon[343]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service not found.
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 pipewire[518]: default: failed to create context: Resource temporarily unavailable
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 systemd[384]: pipewire.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 pipewire[576]: default: failed to create context: Resource temporarily unavailable
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 systemd[384]: pipewire.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 systemd[384]: pipewire-media-session.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 systemd[384]: Failed to start PipeWire Media Session Manager.
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 pipewire[587]: default: failed to create context: Resource temporarily unavailable
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 systemd[384]: pipewire.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 systemd[384]: pipewire.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 systemd[384]: Failed to start PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 systemd[384]: Dependency failed for PipeWire Media Session Manager.
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 systemd[384]: pipewire-media-session.service: Job pipewire-media-session.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Mar 18 07:55:25 x2201 systemd[384]: pipewire.socket: Failed with result 'service-start-limit-hit'.
Mar 18 07:56:01 x2201 audit[345]: USYS_CONFIG pid=345 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=connection-add-activate pid=893 uid=1000 result=fail exe="/usr/bin/NetworkManager" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed'
Mar 18 07:56:01 x2201 kernel: audit: type=1111 audit(1647604561.545:56): pid=345 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=connection-add-activate pid=893 uid=1000 result=fail exe="/usr/bin/NetworkManager" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed'
Mar 18 07:56:18 x2201 dbus-daemon[343]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Mar 18 07:56:24 x2201 audit[345]: USYS_CONFIG pid=345 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=connection-add-activate pid=1068 uid=1000 result=fail exe="/usr/bin/NetworkManager" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed'
Mar 18 07:56:24 x2201 kernel: audit: type=1111 audit(1647604584.282:63): pid=345 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=connection-add-activate pid=1068 uid=1000 result=fail exe="/usr/bin/NetworkManager" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed'
Mar 18 07:56:56 x2201 dbus-daemon[343]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Mar 18 07:58:49 x2201 dbus-daemon[343]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop

What is the problem? Thank you very much.

Last edited by eric7900 (2022-03-18 18:10:00)

-thc

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Registered: 2017-03-15

Posts: 517

Re: [SOLVED] Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Activation Problem

If you want to connect to a WiFi via nmcli, you have to add the name of the WiFi network (SSID) at least:

$ sudo nmcli dev wifi connect network-ssid

See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … i_examples

eric7900

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Registered: 2022-03-18

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Activation Problem

If you want to connect to a WiFi via nmcli, you have to add the name of the WiFi network (SSID) at least:

$ sudo nmcli dev wifi connect network-ssid

See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … i_examples

I did it but I did not write it clearly in my post. I just updated my post. Please check. Thanks.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,655

Re: [SOLVED] Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Activation Problem

So as the error says, you can't do that as your user. As pacman told you when you installed NetworkManager, you need polkit for that, or you need to do it as root.

eric7900

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Registered: 2022-03-18

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Activation Problem

So as the error says, you can't do that as your user. As pacman told you when you installed NetworkManager, you need polkit for that, or you need to do it as root.

You solved my problem. Thank you so much.