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Sniffer

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Registered: 2008-11-10

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Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

Hi,

Finally migrate my laptop to arch from a Debian Minimal installation and with no regrets

Unfortenaly i have a problem with broadcom wireless BCM 4312 that is supported in the new branch kernel 2.6.32.

After a clean instan my network wlan0 is identify but it gives me no such file or directory, then and reading one thread in arch forum i realizae that i need:

1st - b43-fwcutter-patched
2nd - b43-firmware-newest

That's ok, like in karmic i need bcmwl-kernel-source.

Then i reboot and do:

iwconfig (great wlan0 it's there)
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up (Yep it goes up) and it's here when my problem start it's seems that my laptop hang then became normal and hang again and so on (like you are writing something it stops and keep writing again)

i mande iwlist scan as normal user i get (no scan results) and with sudo i get temporary unavailable.

I rc.conf i have daemons (dbus netwok netfs)

in modules i dont have anything.

Where i'm missing....Thanks.

csstaub

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2009-02-09

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Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

Maybe the driver is buggy. Have you looked at the logfiles?

Sniffer

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Registered: 2008-11-10

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Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

Maybe the driver is buggy. Have you looked at the logfiles?

Nope....i will see if i can get something from there thanks.

Even so driver buggy...i'm using yaourt to compile it and install it.....the exact same way members in this forum are doing.....never heard about a bug on it.....but it's an idea..this is giving me nuts...

By the way my laptop it's a Dell Inspiron 1545 with mini Dell 1397 (Broadcom 4312 chipset)...this should be fully supported regarding it comes some of them shipped with ubuntu

Thanks

Last edited by Sniffer (2010-01-17 15:41:39)

Sniffer

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Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

To all users that have this some problem

DONT INSTALL B43-FIRMWARE-NEWEST install instead B43-FIRMWARE ONLY with B43-FWCUTTER-PATCHED.

It work like a charm now, like csstaub said the newest driver it's f**** buggy and i lost 2 days to try to make it work.

Again going ahead with arch eenjoying it's full potencial.

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kjon

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From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

I use ndiswrapper over here. I had a very tough time struggling with fwcutter.

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wonder

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Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

did you use this instructions?

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#fw-b43-lp

don't forget that you need a 2.6.32 kernel. you said "After a clean install" and i supposed you use ftp installation? the core installation has 2.6.30 and you need to upgrade

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Sniffer

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Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

did you use this instructions?

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#fw-b43-lp

don't forget that you need a 2.6.32 kernel. you said "After a clean install" and i supposed you use ftp installation? the core installation has 2.6.30 and you need to upgrade

Yep i follow precisely that instructions and in a clean install i get 2.6.30 and then upgrade with pacman -Syu to 2.6.32 and i had that annoying problem...everytime i put wlan0 up mt laptop seems to hang normal hang normal and so on....

I have removed newest and install the b43-firmware...and voila working like it should.

Sniffer

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Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

NOT SOLVED AGAIN

This is what i call WTF time, it seems to work, it scan all wireless networks but then the same thing, you write something in xterm hang and then continues for example.....

I'm just atonish because in ubuntu or debian i haven't had a problem regarding bcm4312 with bcmwl-kernel-source package and in arch this is just annoying.....

How do you get this to work with ndiswrapper?

Thanks

wonder

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Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

NOT SOLVED AGAIN

This is what i call WTF time, it seems to work, it scan all wireless networks but then the same thing, you write something in xterm hang and then continues for example.....

I'm just atonish because in ubuntu or debian i haven't had a problem regarding bcm4312 with bcmwl-kernel-source package and in arch this is just annoying.....

How do you get this to work with ndiswrapper?

Thanks

you know that b43+firmware != bcmwl-kernel-source(which in aur is broadcom-wl)  no?

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kjon

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From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

NOT SOLVED AGAIN

This is what i call WTF time, it seems to work, it scan all wireless networks but then the same thing, you write something in xterm hang and then continues for example.....

I'm just atonish because in ubuntu or debian i haven't had a problem regarding bcm4312 with bcmwl-kernel-source package and in arch this is just annoying.....

How do you get this to work with ndiswrapper?

Thanks

Just get the broadcom wintendo drivers, and give to ndiswrapper the inf file. Blacklist all the BCM modules and place ndiswrapper instead.

/etc/rc.conf

MODULES=(...!b43 !bcm(whatever) ndiswrapper ....)

# ndiswrapper -i broadcom_inffile.inf
# reboot

Obviously, you can avoid the reboot part by loading ndiswrapper unloading the problematic modules manually. In my case, *I do need* to reboot my machine to make ndiswrapper work.

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Sniffer

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Registered: 2008-11-10

Posts: 47

Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

NOT SOLVED AGAIN

This is what i call WTF time, it seems to work, it scan all wireless networks but then the same thing, you write something in xterm hang and then continues for example.....

I'm just atonish because in ubuntu or debian i haven't had a problem regarding bcm4312 with bcmwl-kernel-source package and in arch this is just annoying.....

How do you get this to work with ndiswrapper?

Thanks

you know that b43+firmware != bcmwl-kernel-source(which in aur is broadcom-wl)  no?

YEP but thanks anyway, broadcom-wl don't work in kernel 2.6.32 at least for me, i get the wireless eth0, i correct the situation following the wiki, getting a working eth1 (ethernet) and eth0 wireless but

iwlist eth0 scan gives a beautifull no scan results.....

Last edited by Sniffer (2010-01-17 20:54:52)

Sniffer

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Registered: 2008-11-10

Posts: 47

Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

NOT SOLVED AGAIN

This is what i call WTF time, it seems to work, it scan all wireless networks but then the same thing, you write something in xterm hang and then continues for example.....

I'm just atonish because in ubuntu or debian i haven't had a problem regarding bcm4312 with bcmwl-kernel-source package and in arch this is just annoying.....

How do you get this to work with ndiswrapper?

Thanks

Just get the broadcom wintendo drivers, and give to ndiswrapper the inf file. Blacklist all the BCM modules and place ndiswrapper instead.

/etc/rc.conf

MODULES=(...!b43 !bcm(whatever) ndiswrapper ....)

# ndiswrapper -i broadcom_inffile.inf
# reboot

Obviously, you can avoid the reboot part by loading ndiswrapper unloading the problematic modules manually. In my case, *I do need* to reboot my machine to make ndiswrapper work.

I see i have only 2 choices to continue with arch on my laptop

1 - keep 2.6.30 kernel and use broadcom-wl or

2 - use ndiswrapper with 2.6.32, i prefer this one, sorry for the question but where can i get bcm4312 wintendo drivers......sorry i'm not a ndiswrapper guy...at least for now, lol.

UPDATE:I'm on a 64bits OS

Last edited by Sniffer (2010-01-17 21:46:31)

parintachin

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Registered: 2009-05-25

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Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

the latest driver from http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php works with 2.6.32

Sniffer

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Registered: 2008-11-10

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Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

the latest driver from http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php works with 2.6.32

Ndiswrapper worked, i have take xp drivers from Dell and it work on 1st try. THANKS.

Regarding Broadcom, their drivers to linux sucks, unstable and buggyyy that's all i have to say...even 2.6.32 i get them to work and after a while dont work again....

Thanks for all the help. This forum rock regarding support.

dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

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Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

Can you please post (or upload) the XP drivers you used? I've tried fetching one from Dell's site, but it doesn't work properly.

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My AUR packages

Vipermaseg

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From: Spain

Registered: 2008-12-12

Posts: 62

Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

I have your same card, I followed these instructions in Arch Wiki and now it works fine http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312

penguin.powered

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Registered: 2010-01-20

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Re: Arch - Kernel 2.6.32 - BCM4312 No Wireless

I used the same wiki article as Vipermaseg. Just downloaded the package from the AUR and followed the instructions, so far i've never had a problem with it.

Just need to remember to recompile the package after a kernel update.