[SOLVED] broadcome and arch upgrade

Lea · 2010-05-12 21:02:28

Hi.

I just upgraded arch but my wireless is not working any more. I have broadcom BCM4322 (on apple macbook). I read somwhere that with this kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 i don't need more broadcome driver for wireless. Is this true? And if it is, what do i need to set so my wireless will start to work? I use wicd and it says no wireless found.

On the other hand i can't install even broadcom-wl driver. So i would really appreciate help to set my wireless.

Last edited by Lea (2010-05-20 09:04:43)

lifeafter2am · 2010-05-12 21:37:50

Did you have it set up before? If you did, did you stop the modules from loading in your rc.conf? You would need to load those modules to make it work, if as you say, the drivers are now built into the kernel.

Lea · 2010-05-12 21:46:11

Did you have it set up before? If you did, did you stop the modules from loading in your rc.conf?

Yes i stopped wl module.

You would need to load those modules to make it work, if as you say, the drivers are now built into the kernel.

Which modules do i need to load?

Those are my modules and daemons:
MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_conservative !lib80211 !snd-pcsp lib80211_crypt_tkip !wl)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network !netfs crond dbus hal cpufreq alsa pommed wicd)

lifeafter2am · 2010-05-12 21:49:53

Well, I would assume it would come in the b43 module, as that is the standard Broadcom module.

Lea · 2010-05-12 21:55:59

I added b43 to modules. But it still doesn't find wireless networks.

lifeafter2am · 2010-05-12 21:57:47

Did you reboot the machine after that? If not, just type

modprobe b43

If you did then you are probably going to need the wl driver back. My notebook uses the same wireless card and I have to use the wl driver.

Lea · 2010-05-12 22:01:58

so does this mean that i still need broadcom-wl driver?

lifeafter2am · 2010-05-12 22:24:37

That would be my guess.

Lea · 2010-05-20 09:04:22

Ok then. It's working back again. Tnx.

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#1 2010-05-12 21:02:28

[SOLVED] broadcome and arch upgrade

#2 2010-05-12 21:37:50

Re: [SOLVED] broadcome and arch upgrade

#3 2010-05-12 21:46:11

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#4 2010-05-12 21:49:53

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#5 2010-05-12 21:55:59

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#6 2010-05-12 21:57:47

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#7 2010-05-12 22:01:58

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#8 2010-05-12 22:24:37

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#9 2010-05-20 09:04:22

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