Broadcom Wifi driver not working after driver installation[Solved]

Superadmin · 2021-08-24 09:41:52

Hi !

I followed through the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/broadcom_wireless page to download the broadcom wifi driver

I have the following wifi card details:
Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43227 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4358]
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e040]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at c0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: bcma, wl

In the website I was suggested to download either b43-firmware-classic or b43legacy-firmware
It told me to use dmesg and go search b43 in the output but I did not find it
So I installed classic first and after reboot (of course) The wifi didnot work
Can any body help me weather I have to install legacy driver or classic driver
And note I have installed both so help me uninstall the unnecessary one

And help me with setting up wifi in my laptop
Thank you in advance

Last edited by Superadmin (2021-08-28 17:23:13)

V1del · 2021-08-24 10:15:54

If you are opting for wl you need neither of these two packages.

How are you surmising it doesn't work? Do you have a device node in ip addr? Error messages in dmesg? Which networking daemon did you configure, which errors does it give you?

Superadmin · 2021-08-24 11:54:27

I enabled NetworkManager while installing it and I also have installed b43-firmware. There is also this b43-fwcutter which I don't remember installing. I guess it as a form of dependency but I have no idea if that is hindering the wifi issue.
I just have restrictively licensed driver: broadcom-wl-dkms installed since dkms has a little advantage over normal broadcom-wl
And no nothing has worked so far
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Q. How are you surmising it doesn't work?
Like my wifi list shows up. I am 100% sure that my wifi password is correct but still after I hit connect option it buffers to connect but do not connect
It keeps on showing this:
Wireless Interface (wlp3so)
The wifi network could not be found
message and annoys me
====================================================================================================================
$ ip addr show
3: wlp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 12:5b:e8:c4:80:3f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr cc:af:78:19:d7:b0

I have this on my screen if that is the answer for "Do you have a device node in ip addr?"

========================================================================================

Qn. Error messages in dmesg?

I have no idea what kind of error is there in my wifi
Since I didn't find any broadcom related or b43 related sentences in `sudo dmesg`

=======================================================================================

Qn Which networking daemon did you configure?

I guess I did systemctl NetworkManager if that is supposed to be a daemon

========================================================================================

Qn which errors does it give you?

Wireless Interface (wlp3so)
The wifi network could not be found

Wireless Interface (wlp3so)
The wifi network could not be found
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

and the list goes on and does not stop until I turnoff wifi

For your information I have installed only

1. local/b43-firmware 6.30.163.46-1
Firmware for Broadcom B43 wireless networking chips - latest release
2. local/b43-fwcutter 019-3
firmware extractor for the b43 kernel module

3. local/broadcom-wl-dkms 6.30.223.271-28
Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver

Last edited by Superadmin (2021-08-24 12:37:22)

Superadmin · 2021-08-24 12:43:24

I didn't know that Broadcom-wl or Broadcom-wl-dkms were kind of alternatives methods for installing drivers over b43-firmware / b43-firmware-classic and others
But For test I uninstalled every packages that I had installed
Test 1: I just had b43-firmware only but that popped up the same problem as before after reboot
Test 2: And then I uninstalled that and installed broadcom-wl and that didn't work either
Final Test: then I hopped into broadcom-wl-dkms and noop that didn't solve the issue

Now I have git cloned b43-firmware, b43-firmware-classic, b43-legacy
And I have no idea which combination to install

In the website I had suggest to do something with dmesg but I had no any output related to b43
And I am really stuck

Last edited by Superadmin (2021-08-24 12:45:14)

seth · 2021-08-24 15:27:40

Please use code and quote tags, https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

The interface seems to be there, so it's not necessarily a driver issue.
Post your complete system journal to get at least us an idea how your system is setup:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

Superadmin · 2021-08-25 02:59:51

seth wrote:

Please use code and quote tags, https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode
The interface seems to be there, so it's not necessarily a driver issue.
Post your complete system journal to get at least us an idea how your system is setup:
sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

My bash....... It is neither showing something nor it stopped until I hit ctl+C
I have no idea what caused this
I don't have any drivers
I uninstalled every packages for having no idea which driver to install

Last edited by Superadmin (2021-08-25 03:02:39)

seth · 2021-08-25 06:15:13

lmg: you currently don't have *any* internet connection on that system at all?
How are you posting atm? Phone?
=> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tethering

Superadmin · 2021-08-26 06:49:27

seth wrote:

lmg: you currently don't have *any* internet connection on that system at all?
How are you posting atm? Phone?
=> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tethering

hahah No I have a wifi card on that laptop

Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43227 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4358]
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e040]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at c0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use:
Kernel modules:

I am right now posting it through the same laptop but with Ethernet connected....
Can you please help me on how to fix this issue?

Last edited by Superadmin (2021-08-26 06:52:47)

seth · 2021-08-26 06:52:11

Then the command in #5 should™ not hang.
Test

ping ix.io

and then repeat the journal upload (ix.io might had a server error or too much traffic or so)

Superadmin · 2021-08-27 12:24:30

seth wrote:

Then the command in #5 should™ not hang.
Test
ping ix.io
and then repeat the journal upload (ix.io might had a server error or too much traffic or so)

http://ix.io/3x7i

I am so sorry.. It didn't give any answer last time. But It did now

Superadmin · 2021-08-27 12:57:30

Superadmin wrote:

seth wrote:
Then the command in #5 should™ not hang.
Test
ping ix.io
and then repeat the journal upload (ix.io might had a server error or too much traffic or so)

I am so sorry.. It didn't give any answer last time. But It did now
http://ix.io/3x7i

This is when I didn't had any drivers installed
I did some research and the message that the system was giving me was DHCP failed to start
So using systemctl enable dhcpcd.service
I enabled it but still this message doesn't stop to pop up

I have currently b43-firmware-classic installed after seeing b43-ucode as suggested in Arch Wiki
I don't know if this makes a difference but this is after installing driver http://ix.io/3x7t

Last edited by Superadmin (2021-08-27 12:57:58)

seth · 2021-08-27 13:07:49

You're at least running dhpcd and networkmanager concurently.
Let's see whether there're more:

find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f

Pick one, stop/disable the other and see whether that helps.

Superadmin · 2021-08-28 03:46:17

seth wrote:

You're at least running dhpcd and networkmanager concurently.
Let's see whether there're more:
find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f
Pick one, stop/disable the other and see whether that helps.

$ find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service | system
dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service | system
dirmngr.socket | sockets.target.wants
display-manager.service | system
getty@tty1.service | getty.target.wants
gpg-agent-browser.socket | sockets.target.wants
gpg-agent-extra.socket | sockets.target.wants
gpg-agent.socket | sockets.target.wants
gpg-agent-ssh.socket | sockets.target.wants
NetworkManager.service | multi-user.target.wants
NetworkManager-wait-online.service | network-online.target.wants
p11-kit-server.socket | sockets.target.wants
pipewire.socket | sockets.target.wants
pulseaudio.socket | sockets.target.wants
remote-fs.target | multi-user.target.wants
sshd.service | multi-user.target.wants
systemd-timesyncd.service | sysinit.target.wants
xdg-user-dirs-update.service | default.target.wants

Superadmin · 2021-08-28 03:48:43

Superadmin wrote:

seth wrote:
You're at least running dhpcd and networkmanager concurently.
Let's see whether there're more:
find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f
Pick one, stop/disable the other and see whether that helps.
$ find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service | system
dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service | system
dirmngr.socket | sockets.target.wants
display-manager.service | system
getty@tty1.service | getty.target.wants
gpg-agent-browser.socket | sockets.target.wants
gpg-agent-extra.socket | sockets.target.wants
gpg-agent.socket | sockets.target.wants
gpg-agent-ssh.socket | sockets.target.wants
NetworkManager.service | multi-user.target.wants
NetworkManager-wait-online.service | network-online.target.wants
p11-kit-server.socket | sockets.target.wants
pipewire.socket | sockets.target.wants
pulseaudio.socket | sockets.target.wants
remote-fs.target | multi-user.target.wants
sshd.service | multi-user.target.wants
systemd-timesyncd.service | sysinit.target.wants
xdg-user-dirs-update.service | default.target.wants

Can you imagine that !!
Right now wifi is working and I am posting this through wifi but Ethernet is not being connected
Can you tell me why?

seth · 2021-08-28 05:26:19

Because now there's a usable driver installation and only networkmanager is running instead of multiple services playing the three stooges, opq9xV_-RzUutIPGNlhc_M_KxnA=.gif

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

Also, for your future posts please stop quoting complete posts. It's a forum and the previous post is right above.
Then don't bump, but just edit your previous post if nobody has replied so far.
And finally, use code tags for shell output and file contents, https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

Superadmin · 2021-08-28 10:33:43

seth wrote:

Because now there's a usable driver installation and only networkmanager is running instead of multiple services playing the three stooges, https://frinkiac.com/video/S11E12/opq9x … _KxnA=.gif
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.
Also, for your future posts please stop quoting complete posts. It's a forum and the previous post is right above.
Then don't bump, but just edit your previous post if nobody has replied so far.
And finally, use code tags for shell output and file contents, https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

Thanks !!
Can you tell me how to mark Solved?

loqs · 2021-08-28 10:41:48

Superadmin wrote:

Can you tell me how to mark Solved?

See General_guidelines#How_to_post

Please read through all of the General guidelines not just the how to post section in particular Life is a two-way street with respect to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1990020

Superadmin · 2021-08-28 15:43:28

Please read through all of the General guidelines not just the how to post section in particular Life is a two-way street with respect to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1990020

Sorry

Superadmin · 2021-08-28 15:47:06

See General_guidelines#How_to_post

Hi Sorry to bother you again but I didn't get how to mark this thread as solved
It said to begin a new topic and link it but honestly I am the newbiest guy you will ever find

Last edited by Superadmin (2021-08-28 15:47:48)

seth · 2021-08-28 15:57:24

https://bbs.archlinux.org/edit.php?id=1989442 allows you to edit the subject line

Superadmin · 2021-08-28 17:24:00

seth wrote:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/edit.php?id=1989442 allows you to edit the subject line

Where did you get that link?
Can you help me?

seth · 2021-08-28 19:31:09

There's an "edit" link in the lower right corner of every of your posts.
(I don't see it for your posts, but the pattern is easy enough to extrapolate - it's the same until "…id=" followed by the ID of the post.

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