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tri1976

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Registered: 2009-09-07

Posts: 152

bcm4313 system freeze with brcmsmac

I have broadcom wireless card BCM4313 on Dell Latitude e5510.  My current kernel is 3.3.5-1-ARCH.  When I use the default brcmsmac driver, the system freeze every time I bring up the interface ("ifconfig wlan0 up").  I remove the "bcma" module and load the "wl" module from broadcom-wl package in the AUR.  When I bring the interface up with wl driver, the system doesn't freeze but the state of the card is "UNKNOWN".  dmesg shows the following errors

[ 6192.645349] ERROR @wl_dev_intvar_get : error (-1)
[ 6192.645354] ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_tx_power : error (-1)
[ 7104.869005] ERROR @__wl_cfg80211_scan : WLC_SCAN error (-22)

Has anyone seen this problem or know how to fix it?  Thanks.

Last edited by tri1976 (2012-05-15 14:57:30)

tri1976

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Registered: 2009-09-07

Posts: 152

Re: bcm4313 system freeze with brcmsmac

I tried b43 module from AUR and it had the same problem as brcmsmac.  Anyone has any insight to this issue?  Thanks.

ewaller

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Re: bcm4313 system freeze with brcmsmac

Just to ensure we are comparing apples to apples, can you provide the output of
lspci -nn | grep Broadcom   (That is two n's, not m)

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tri1976

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Registered: 2009-09-07

Posts: 152

Re: bcm4313 system freeze with brcmsmac

Just to ensure we are comparing apples to apples, can you provide the output of
lspci -nn | grep Broadcom   (That is two n's, not m)

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
0b:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1680] (rev 10)

Thanks.

uargh

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Registered: 2012-05-23

Posts: 2

Re: bcm4313 system freeze with brcmsmac

Hi,

I'm having exactly the same problem. brcmsmac does not seem to work anymore on my bcm4313 (same as tri1976, but laptop model is a hp 625). I have tested it with Kernel 3.3.6-1-ARCH and the current kernel 3.3.7-1-ARCH. As soon as I try to bring up wlan0, my system freezes.
I think it stopped working somewhere around 3.3.2 (not completely sure though, i don't have that package anymore). Any ideas? [testing] is disabled and dmesg does not show anything when inserting the brcmsmac module.
Thanks in advance

tri1976

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Registered: 2009-09-07

Posts: 152

Re: bcm4313 system freeze with brcmsmac

uargh, mine is working now but I don't remember exactly how.  I think I booted it in Windows just to make sure the wireless card is working and then when I booted back in Arch, it started to work again.  It's like it got stuck in some state and booting it in Windows released it (I really don't know what I'm talking about but it's working now.)  My current kernel is 3.3.6-1-ARCH.  Good luck.

sano

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Registered: 2012-02-11

Posts: 114

Re: bcm4313 system freeze with brcmsmac

I have the same card, and it is working fine. But after I tried to install broadcom-wl (AUR) a while ago (which didn't work), when reverting to brcmsmac my Arch sytem was unbootable and Debian wouldn't recognise the card.
I blacklisted wl and reset my BIOS, which made Arch boot again, and Debian load the driver (& firmware). There are no settings regarding wireless in my BIOS, the only thing I changed from factory settings were the boot order and disabling boot-on-lan.
There were no useful logs on either system, so I am not sure what happened there. But it sounds like a similar problem you guys are (were) having.

uargh

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Registered: 2012-05-23

Posts: 2

Re: bcm4313 system freeze with brcmsmac

Well it seems it's finally working again. Found an older kernel image on another machine (3.1.8-ARCH) and installed it. After loading brcmsmac I checked rfkill to make sure card isn't blocked and I could bring up wlan0 without freezing. Connecting to wireless networks seems to work, too. Booted back into 3.3.7 and it still works
However, I have also no idea what really caused this problem.
Anyway, thanks for your help.