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qxzwasd

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Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 2

Wireless stopped working

Hi. I had wireless working fine for my BCM4312 card, and later it just suddenly stopped working. I'm pretty sure that I didn't change anything since the last time I used it, and I don't think it was after a reboot that it stopped working. Now the device shows up in "iwconfig" and wicd shows it as a wireless interface, but wicd can't find any wireless networks. I know that there are several nearby, so this is wrong. I'm using the broadcom-wl (STA) driver.

Thanks.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Wireless stopped working

The kernel's b43 driver now supports a lot more Broadcom chipsets, including the 4312, so it's possible that it was autoloaded alongside the wl driver, which would cause a conflict. Check lsmod - if both are loaded, remove and blacklist the one you don't want.

qxzwasd

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Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 2

Re: Wireless stopped working

The kernel's b43 driver now supports a lot more Broadcom chipsets, including the 4312, so it's possible that it was autoloaded alongside the wl driver, which would cause a conflict. Check lsmod - if both are loaded, remove and blacklist the one you don't want.

I explicitly disabled it in /etc/rc.conf. I just tried unloading wl and using b43 instead, now it doesn't even show up in iwconfig.

Thanks for the suggestion, anything else I should try?

EDIT: If that was unclear, it had been disabled in rc.conf this whole time.

Last edited by qxzwasd (2010-06-10 21:31:23)