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dissida

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Registered: 2009-09-06

Posts: 7

can't configure Broadcom BCM4328 with any driver

Hello..

i'm new to this forum and somewhat to arch linux..
i have an hp dv2500 laptop with a Broadcom wireless card.. here is the output of lspci | grep -i net

08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

at first, i tried getting it to work with the broadcom-wl driver from AUR as suggested by this wiki page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312
i followed all the steps.. however, i did get an error when i tried to exucute this line:

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko

and the error was:

error inserting 'wl.ko': -1 File exists ...

i continued despite this error and when i was done, i couldn't detect the card with iwconfig or wicd.. the modules named "wl" and "lib80211" are loaded but i still can't detect it..
i uninstalled, re-installed and i got the same behaviour..

so then i tried the BCM43xx driver as described here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … up#BCM43XX
i unpacked the firmware and restarted but i still couldn't detect it.. and i couldn't load the bcm43xx module because arch says was not found..

then i tried the driver after that "b43".. followed the steps on the wiki, restarted, and i still couldn't detect the card with iwconfig or wicd..

i have been trying to get this to work for 3 days now.. i appreciate your time and help in this issue..

thanks

Last edited by dissida (2009-09-06 08:07:35)

Goico

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Registered: 2009-09-06

Posts: 16

Re: can't configure Broadcom BCM4328 with any driver

Every time I have trouble using wifi drivers that come with the kernel I replace them using Compat WIreless

http://linuxwireless.org/

Works like a charm

dissida

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Registered: 2009-09-06

Posts: 7

Re: can't configure Broadcom BCM4328 with any driver

hi.. thanks for looking..

i looked through the website, and according to this page, the BCM4328 chipset is not supported by the bc43 driver.. i also bumped to thier irc channel and they confirmed it wasn't supported..

so that leaves me with one option, the broadcom-wl drivers (which i think are based off the official broadcom closed-source drivers).. according to this wiki page, they should support BCM4328 (my card)..

any other things i might try out?

in case this might help, here is the output of dmesg after loading the driver with modprobe wl:

lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'