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SmartWish

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From: Nigeria

Registered: 2010-08-01

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] Cant get Broadcom BCM4318 to work (wireless)

I have tried a long time to get my wireless broadcom bcm4318 to work, but it doesn't work. I have looked in the wiki, but it didnt help.

My PC is a HP nc6220 laptop
output of 'lspci | grep Network':

02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

rc.conf: http://pastebin.com/3kuyZmVi

I have nothing in my blacklist file.

I have also installed these two packages:

• b43-firmware 5.100.138-2

• b43-fwcutter 015-1

Thanks!

Last edited by SmartWish (2012-06-11 17:20:21)

siamer

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Registered: 2012-04-29

Posts: 132

Re: [SOLVED] Cant get Broadcom BCM4318 to work (wireless)

Hi.
I was using that wifi card before...
check if your wireless is seen by system (in termianal write "iwconfig" show output here) than try to load modules "modprobe b43" and check iwconfig again, than show what kernel is telling us "dmesg"
after that we should know what's the problem

Regards,
siamer

SmartWish

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From: Nigeria

Registered: 2010-08-01

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] Cant get Broadcom BCM4318 to work (wireless)

iwconfig:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

then i loaded b43

then output of dmesg: http://pastebin.com/LXK8KwjW

I see that dmesg, tells me to push the wifi button but it doesnt work..

SmartWish

Member

From: Nigeria

Registered: 2010-08-01

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] Cant get Broadcom BCM4318 to work (wireless)

I downloaded ipw2200-fw, and autoloaded the module on startup, and then added this to my /etc/modprobe.d/whatever.conf

options ipw2200 led=1

It works now!

Last edited by SmartWish (2012-06-11 17:19:56)