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djbon2112

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Registered: 2009-01-13

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Can't get Broadcom wireless card working

Hello everyone. First and foremost, I'm not a newbie to Linux, just to Arch, so I do kinda know what I'm doing

I've got my laptop with a Broadcom BCM4328. I followed the steps on the Wiki page to the letter, but I've got nothing: the wireless doesn't initialize, and I have no interface for the wireless. I've provided my output for a few commands below if it helps. I'm using the latest kernel as I just installed Arch today. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[joshua@W01-Zeus ~]$ lspci | grep Broadcom
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

[joshua@W01-Zeus ~]$ sudo modprobe wl
[joshua@W01-Zeus ~]$ lsmod | grep wl
wl                   1287680  0 
lib80211                7172  1 wl

Last edited by djbon2112 (2009-10-27 16:25:15)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Can't get Broadcom wireless card working

i know there is a problem with broadcom-wl when is loaded after a module. i don't remember which one but i know that this information is in aur comments on the broadcom-wl package page.

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ybotspawn

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Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 140

Re: Can't get Broadcom wireless card working

I think I also had to specifically block a module from loading.  Can you post your rc.conf? What happens when you run iwconfig -l? Are you using cli or some gui interface to try to connect to wireless networks?

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reed9

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Registered: 2008-06-12

Posts: 77

Re: Can't get Broadcom wireless card working

You probably need to blacklist the b43 driver.  Check the output and lsmod and see if it's loading.

wonder

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Re: Can't get Broadcom wireless card working

the modules that i'm talking about are b43, b43legacy and ssb. but looking at your devices ssb is needed by b44(ethernet module).
your MODULES should look like this:

MODULES=(wl !b43 !b43legacy...)

not that wl is first in this array

Last edited by wonder (2009-10-27 17:20:32)

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