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gjoellee

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Registered: 2008-12-12

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[SOLVED] No wireless internet

I have a Dell Wireless 1397 802.11 card. I tried installing "broadcom-wl" and added "wl" to modules in rc.conf, but still can't get any wireless internet. Thanks in advance.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield DMI (rev 11)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 11)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield System Management Registers (rev 11)
00:08.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield Semaphore and Scratchpad Registers (rev 11)
00:08.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield System Control and Status Registers (rev 11)
00:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield Miscellaneous Registers (rev 11)
00:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation QPI Link (rev 11)
00:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation QPI Routing and Protocol Registers (rev 11)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 05)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 05)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak SMBus Controller (rev 05)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series]
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series]
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
09:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822 (rev 01)
09:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e230 (rev 01)
09:00.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e852 (rev 01)
09:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Device e832 (rev 01)
0b:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-Core Registers (rev 04)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 04)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QPI Link (rev 04)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QPI Physical 0 (rev 04)
ff:03.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Lynnfield Integrated Memory Controller (rev 04)
ff:03.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Lynnfield Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder (rev 04)
ff:03.4 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Lynnfield Integrated Memory Controller Test Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Lynnfield Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Control Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Lynnfield Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Address Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Lynnfield Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Rank Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Lynnfield Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Lynnfield Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Control Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Lynnfield Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Address Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Lynnfield Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Rank Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Lynnfield Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04)

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ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] No wireless internet

I think you need to blacklist ssb and b43 in /etc/rc.conf

/etc/rc.conf

MODULES=(!ssb !b43 ....

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Re: [SOLVED] No wireless internet

Not really responding to myself.  I see you were editing whilst I was posting.

If you are brave, your BC4312 chip is supported directly by the 2.6.32 kernel that is available in the testing branch.  I have been using it for about a week and it performs well without the need for the broadcom-wl driver.

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gjoellee

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Re: [SOLVED] No wireless internet

Not really responding to myself.  I see you were editing whilst I was posting.

If you are brave, your BC4312 chip is supported directly by the 2.6.32 kernel that is available in the testing branch.  I have been using it for about a week and it performs well without the need for the broadcom-wl driver.

I removed the driver and enabled the testing repo, then upgraded. I can add wireless networks manually, but the computer can't find any nor connect to the one I have added. It is at least one step closer!

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wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] No wireless internet

is not enough to have only the kernel. read here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
you need b43-fwcutter git and the new firmware.

Last edited by wonder (2009-12-27 18:52:56)

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ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] No wireless internet

[I can add wireless networks manually, but the computer can't find any nor connect to the one I have added. It is at least one step closer!

Can you tell me about your router (open, WEP, WPA).  Are you using networkmanager, wicd? Are you using wpa_supplicant?

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Re: [SOLVED] No wireless internet

is not enough to have only the kernel. read here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
you need b43-fwcutter git and the new firmware.

Of course this is correct.  I forgot it completely.

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gjoellee

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Re: [SOLVED] No wireless internet

Thanks for all your help!

Solved by upgrading to [testing] and installing the following packages from the AUR:

First: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32337
Then: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32338

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alphazo

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Re: [SOLVED] No wireless internet

Hello,

I have had my Broadcom BCM4312 card working with the following configuration and 2.6.31 kernel (I don't run Testing). Since 2.6.32 is in Core I upgraded my system however I can no longer load the 'wl' module.

et/rc.conf

DAEMONS=(!b43 !ssb !lib80211 @syslog-ng !network hal lib80211_crypt_tkip wl @wicd !netfs @crond @alsa @sshd @cups)

/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

alias ssb off
alias b43 off
alias lib80211 off

As recommended above I installed both :
- b43-fwcutter-patched 012-1
- b43-firmware-newest 4.178.10.4-2

But still no luck. Is there anything I should modify in my config file in order to get it working?

Thanks
Alphazo

Last edited by alphazo (2009-12-30 13:00:53)

tomk

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Re: [SOLVED] No wireless internet

As stated above - the 4312 chipset is now supported by the kernel's b43 driver, so wl is no longer required.

alphazo

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Re: [SOLVED] No wireless internet

So here is what I did :

# sudo pacman -R broadcom-wl
# sudo pacman -S b43-fwcutter-patched
# sudo pacman -S b43-firmware-newest

And modified my config files accordingly:

/etc/rc.conf

DAEMONS=(b43 @syslog-ng !network hal @wicd !netfs @crond @alsa @sshd @cups)

/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

#alias ssb off
#alias b43 off
#alias lib80211 off

..no wifi card detected after rebooting. What am I missing?

Thanks
Alphazo

[SOLVED]
As I only use wicd and not the network daemon, the card would not show up in ifconfig. Then I changed the name of the wireless card in wicd panel from eth1 (used by wl) to wlan0 and voilà I got connected and ifconfig reported wlan0 as well. Coool!

Last edited by alphazo (2009-12-30 15:16:44)