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Zhinthar

Member

Registered: 2010-05-24

Posts: 3

Broadcom Wireless Card Setup Problems

Hello there, I'm very new to Archlinux and to linux overall. Since I'm done with my classes for the summer, I had the crazy idea to setup a home web server with my old machine and at the same time use the wireless card as an acess point for my laptop. The problem is that I followed all the steps in the Archlinux wiki about the wireless setups for the B43 driver several times. However, my system seams to ignore all my efforts and keeps making fun of me. According to what I understood, it's not setting up the network interface. (Which is suposed to be done automaticly I think) So here's a bunch of troubleshooting commands results.

iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

lspci | grep -e Network

01:06.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

lshw -C network

  *-network               
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 6
       bus info: pci@0000:01:06.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32
       resources: irq:16 memory:40000000-40001fff

lsmod| grep -e b43 -e bcm43xx -e ssb -e ndiswrapper

b43                   172775  0 
ssb                    44979  1 b43
mmc_core               52043  2 b43,ssb
pcmcia                 29658  2 b43,ssb
mac80211              171331  1 b43
cfg80211              126817  2 b43,mac80211
led_class               2609  1 b43

Here are the links I followed to try to setup and try to troubleshoot my things

For b43 driver:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=780692
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

For ndiswrapper driver
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=780590
(There was an other one that told how to set it up but i can't find it)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Broadcom Wireless Card Setup Problems

Unload/reload b43 and check dmesg for errors.

Zhinthar

Member

Registered: 2010-05-24

Posts: 3

Re: Broadcom Wireless Card Setup Problems

Ok, I"ve done it and I got a few errors.

b43-pci-bridge 0000:01:06.0: PCI INT A disabled
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
b43-pci-bridge 0000:01:06.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ssb: PCI-ID not in fallback list
ssb: CHIPID not in nrcores fallback list
ssb: Core 0 found: UNKNOWN (cc 0x8FF, rev 0x7F, vendor 0xFFFF)
ssb: WARNING: Invalid SPROM CRC (corrupt SPROM)
ssb: Unsupported SPROM  revision 255 detected. Will extract v1
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:01:06.0
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMLS, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]

So, does that mean that I don't use the proper firmware?