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#1 2007-08-14 10:24:51

Slychilde
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Registered: 2007-08-14
Posts: 7

Broadcom wireless died after update

I just did a system update a little bit ago and upon rebooting my wireless wouldn't work.  It's a Broadcom 4311 internal card on my laptop.  It worked fine before the update, and I used the bcm43xx-fwcutter method from the Arch Wireless wiki tutorial to get it set up.  It's been working since I installed Arch, which was right after Voodoo was released, so almost 6 months.

I tried to do:
rmmod bcm43xx
and then reinstall through fwcutter, but that did nothing.  The weird thing is, I can iwlist eth1 scanning and it shows my wireless connection available. iwconfig eth1 essid "myConnection" mode Managed doesn't help, either, it just accepts it and does nothing.  I know my wireless/internet is working still because my girlfriend's connected to it wirelessly.  It's also working fine on my big pc and on the ethernet port on my laptop.

I haven't changed anything in my rc.conf or network profile that would make it stop working:

# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Canada/Pacific"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"

MOD_BLACKLIST=(pcspkr ipv6 sd_mod sr_mod)

MODULES=(b44 mii speedstep_centrino fglrx bcm43xx ac battery button fan sbs video) 

USELVM="no"

HOSTNAME="slaptop"

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
#eth0="dhcp"
#eth1="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo)
NET_PROFILES=(ethernet linksys bitey)

gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs @crond alsa fam @kdm hal @cpufreq @acpid @powersaved @samba @keytouch)

# End of file

network profile

DESCRIPTION="Wireless"

# Network Settings
INTERFACE=eth1
HOSTNAME=slaptop

# Interface Settings (use IFOPTS="dhcp" for DHCP)
IFOPTS="dhcp"

# Wireless Settings (optional)
ESSID=linksys
#KEY=
IWOPTS="mode managed essid $ESSID"

I suspect the the update from Dhcpd or the new kernel 2.6.22 to be suspect.  What can I do to fix this, and has anyone else had the same problem? http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36115  This looks like it may be the same problem, or something similar.

Any help would be appreciated!

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#2 2007-08-16 20:09:00

Slychilde
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Registered: 2007-08-14
Posts: 7

Re: Broadcom wireless died after update

Bump, still broken.  Can anyone point me in the right direction, please?

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#3 2007-08-17 09:14:13

test1000
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Registered: 2005-04-03
Posts: 834

Re: Broadcom wireless died after update

after some updates a while ago i have had to use wifi-radar with 'Ifup required' option in preferences ON. or else it wouldn't connect...


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