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#1 2009-09-19 01:22:02

luispa
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Registered: 2009-07-10
Posts: 12

No wireless connection after pacman -Syu

Hi,

I'm almost new in this forum. Recently I did a system upgrade (or update?). After that the wireless connection didn't work again. I used the search function but I didn't find a solution so I reinstalled networkmanager and the wireless card driver (from AUR). Then I did everything mentioned in these wikis:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager

But no success

The output to lspci | grep BCM43 is:
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

The output of iwconfig is:
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

These are the relevant lines of rc.conf:
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(lib80211_crypt_tkip !b43 wl fuse snd-hda-intel)
...
#eth1="dhcp"
eth0="dhcp"
#INTERFACES=(eth0 eth1)
INTERFACES=(!eth0)
...
#gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
#ROUTES=(!gateway)
...
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal !network networkmanager !netfs !wicd crond fam gdm)

I really appreciate any help, thank you very much in advance,

Luis Pablo

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#2 2009-09-19 06:19:17

luispa
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Registered: 2009-07-10
Posts: 12

Re: No wireless connection after pacman -Syu

I'm making some progress. I realized I forgot to blacklist ssb and ndiswrapper. I compiled the driver from the Broadcom website. This is the new modules array in rc.conf:
MODULES=(lib80211_crypt_tkip wl !ndiswrapper !b43 !ssb fuse snd-hda-intel)

Now "sudo iwconfig" output is
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:off   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Managementmode:All packets received
          Link Quality=5/5  Signal level=0 dBm  Noise level=0 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth1      no wireless extensions.

I'm still not able to scan wireless networks.
sudo iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Failed to read scan data : Invalid argument

eth1      Interface doesn't support scanning.

Neither WICD or NetworkManager are able to detect wireless networks.

Thank you in advance,

Luis Pablo

Last edited by luispa (2009-09-19 06:20:56)

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#3 2009-10-10 15:10:53

kgas
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From: Qatar
Registered: 2008-11-08
Posts: 718

Re: No wireless connection after pacman -Syu

Broadcom BCM4312 failed to work in Dell mini 9 after -Syu (kernel 2.631-Arch). The driver is latest one from AUR . 
$modprobe wl
FATAL:Module wl not found

Edit 1: Solved. Build the driver from AUR without any patches and works fine.

Edit 2: vote for this driver (by leprosys) and let it moved to community.

Last edited by kgas (2009-10-10 15:47:16)

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