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Maxx71

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Registered: 2020-11-14

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Please help with Broadcom BCM4360

Hello everyone, after days trying to get this wifi mini pci-e card working here i am to ask for some help.
It's a mini pci-e Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4360] (rev 03) I removed from a Zyxel router.
I have tried most of the broadcom drivers for linux: WL, broadcom-sta-dkms, bcma with no luck. Wl driver which is the one supposed to work won't load giving this message:  wl: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel.
The card is recognized by lspci but an interface cannot be created.
Does anyone know if 14e4:4360 is really supported by any driver?
Has anyone had experience with that chipset?
Thanks in advance for helping

Trilby

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Re: Please help with Broadcom BCM4360

Wl driver which is the one supposed to work

Where are you getting this?  The documents linked from the wiki say otherwise: no linux drivers are reported to support that chip.  This would leave only ndiswrapper.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … diswrapper

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Maxx71

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Registered: 2020-11-14

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Re: Please help with Broadcom BCM4360

Where are you getting this?

From https://wiki.debian.org/wl

Supported Devices
Version 6.30.223.271-5

- Broadcom BCM4360 (PCI IDs 14e4:43a0, 14e4:4360)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Please help with Broadcom BCM4360

The wl driver using the following match:

	if ((pdev->vendor != PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM) ||
	    (((pdev->device & 0xff00) != 0x4300) &&
	     (pdev->device != 0x576) &&
	     ((pdev->device & 0xff00) != 0x4700) &&
	     ((pdev->device < 43000) || (pdev->device > 43999)))) {
		WL_TRACE(("%s: unsupported vendor %x device %x\n", __FUNCTION__,
			pdev->vendor, pdev->device));
		return (-ENODEV);
	}

Maxx71 what is the full output from dmesg.  The line you posted means the module is not signed which is expected and not critical.

Maxx71

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Re: Please help with Broadcom BCM4360

Maxx71 what is the full output from dmesg

sudo modprobe wl && dmesg | grep wl

[ 1656.177775] wl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 1656.177781] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 1656.183753] wl: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 1656.233785] wl driver 6.30.223.271 (r587334) failed with code 1
[ 1656.233789] ERROR @wl_cfg80211_detach : 
[ 1656.233789] NULL ndev->ieee80211ptr, unable to deref wl

could it be a physical problem with the hardware?

loqs

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Re: Please help with Broadcom BCM4360

Known issue,  without a fix that I know of.  "NULL ndev->ieee80211ptr, unable to deref wl"  Should return lots of search engine results.