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#1 2009-09-06 19:00:12

dissida
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Registered: 2009-09-06
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tried every way to install my broadcom wireless card and failed

Hello.. i asked this in the newbie section but didn't get any replies.. i really need help and i don't know where else to go.

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

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#2 2009-09-06 21:08:02

tomk
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Registered: 2004-07-21
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Re: tried every way to install my broadcom wireless card and failed

Unload wl, reload it again, and check dmesg for errors - and use modprobe btw, insmod/rmmod are way old, and no longer recommended.

Forget about bcm43xx - as you discovered, it no longer exists. b43 works fine for a lot of Broadcom gear, but for the 4328 people tend to go for wl (I have a 4318 myself, using b43, so I can't say one way or the other).

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#3 2009-09-07 07:05:56

dissida
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Registered: 2009-09-06
Posts: 7

Re: tried every way to install my broadcom wireless card and failed

thanks for the reply tomk..
so at least we limited the problem to using broadcom-wl..

here is dmesg after modprobe -r wl

Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.5
usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
Adding 1895660k swap on /dev/sda4.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1895660k 
forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 4398045793691 ns)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
lib80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL'

and after modprobe wl:

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

i'm not that good with gnu/linux, so i'm not sure if something is wrong from these messages... do they point to anything?

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#4 2009-09-14 03:08:03

aseba
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Registered: 2009-09-14
Posts: 2

Re: tried every way to install my broadcom wireless card and failed

Try this..
You have to explicitly say to not load ssb b43 b43-legacy before loading wl..
I had the same problem you had and I solved it with this... but I have the BCM4312
I'm using broadcom-wl from AUR

0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01

MODULES=([your modules] !ssb !b43 !b43-legacy wl [your modules])

Last edited by aseba (2009-09-14 03:09:52)

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