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blazs

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Registered: 2010-08-22

Posts: 8

Broadcom BCM43224

I have a dell studio xps 1647 notebook with broadcom wifi

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01)

installed from yaourt the b43-firmware then modprobed b43 and of course i blacklisted brcmsmac
but when i can't connect to a wireless network

[ 2636.475797] b43-phy7: Broadcom 43224 WLAN found (core revision 23)
[ 2636.476624] ieee80211 phy7: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 2636.478600] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
[ 2636.644689] b43-phy7: Loading firmware version 508.1084 (2009-01-14 01:32:01)
[ 2636.696785] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2643.807456] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 1/3)
[ 2644.006661] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 2/3)
[ 2644.206314] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 3/3)
[ 2644.405962] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc timed out
[ 2650.773526] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 1/3)
[ 2650.972831] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 2/3)
[ 2651.172447] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 3/3)
[ 2651.372071] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc timed out
[ 2657.749735] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 1/3)
[ 2657.949036] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 2/3)
[ 2658.148667] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 3/3)
[ 2658.348301] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc timed out
[ 2664.725863] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 1/3)
[ 2664.925230] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 2/3)
[ 2665.124713] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc (try 3/3)
[ 2665.324339] wlan0: direct probe to d8:5d:4c:9d:13:fc timed out

How can i solve this problem? I don't want use brcmsmac.

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: Broadcom BCM43224

I could only get my card to work with broadcom-wl.