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MarkZar

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Registered: 2012-03-19

Posts: 21

[SOLVED]Cannot power up BCM4311 wireless

hey everyone. i have installed arch with lxde recently, but i still cannot make the wireless work.

lspci|grep Network
10:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)

i tried each method from Internet. first, in light of arch wiki, i installed the broadcom-wl driver from AUR, and after the installation:

lsmod|grep b43
Nothing

lsmod|grep ssb
Nothing

lsmod|grep wl
wl                   2527836  1 
cfg80211              153196  1 wl
lib80211                3101  1 wl

lsmod|grep lib80211
lib80211                3101  1 wl

each module is right according to arch wiki

just as you can see, i have disabled some modules here(these modules dont run according to the result above):

cat /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl.conf
blacklist b43
blacklist bcma
blacklist ssb

but my computer cannot find the wireless device at all!

iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     No such device

and ip addr only has two interfaces displayed, lo and eth0. what else can i do to power up the wireless? any help appreciated!

Last edited by MarkZar (2012-05-26 09:47:54)

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: [SOLVED]Cannot power up BCM4311 wireless

Moving to Newbie Corner.

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MarkZar

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Registered: 2012-03-19

Posts: 21

Re: [SOLVED]Cannot power up BCM4311 wireless

OK, the problem has been solved. i uninstalled broadcom-wl driver, and installed b43-fwcutter and b43-firmware, everything is OK! hope it will help thoes who also has BCM4311 wireless device.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: [SOLVED]Cannot power up BCM4311 wireless

Just a fyi, you need either broadcom-wl or b43-firmware, but *not* both at the same time. The wl driver has internal firmware, while b43-firmware is, as the name says, for the b43 driver.