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pahko

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Registered: 2010-07-13

Posts: 18

driver b43 not working on 2.26.34.. I cannot connect wifi[SOLVED]

Hello guys .. I installed b43.. interface wlan0 scans good but I can't get connection for any wireless red when I try to connect to open wifi says:"unavalible to get ip address" and when I try to connect to encrypt wifi network  says "pass wrong" and I really sure the pass is ok.. I try to connect to wpa, wp2 and wep encryp networks... does anybody knows what
is it wrong? I follow these steps:

this is for: lspci -vnn | grep 14e4

0e:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

so b43 official's page said is supported http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Dri … CI_devices

the I install  b43-fwcutter ans then follow these instructions: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Dri … #fw-b43-lp

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux
sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-013 -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o

my MODULES array is:

MODULES=(!lib80211 !wl b43 ssb !lib80211_crypt_tkip !pcspkr vboxdrv fuse snd-hda-intel)

after reboot: iwcofing

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"pahko"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

ifconfig

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 0C:60:76:05:D9:98  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:43265 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:30148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:24134119 (23.0 Mb)  TX bytes:2567092 (2.4 Mb)

lsmod | grep b43

b43                   163045  0 
ssb                    42639  1 b43
mmc_core               53182  3 sdhci,b43,ssb
pcmcia                 34926  2 b43,ssb
mac80211              167747  3 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib,b43
cfg80211              131633  3 rt2x00lib,b43,mac80211
led_class               2362  3 rt2x00lib,sdhci,b43

if someone has the same problem or anybody knows how to fixx it ... pleae help me..

thankyou so much..

sorry about my english...

Last edited by pahko (2010-07-20 15:53:35)

bema

Member

Registered: 2010-02-12

Posts: 26

Re: driver b43 not working on 2.26.34.. I cannot connect wifi[SOLVED]

You could check the dmesg output if the reason for your wireless card to not work are the fatal DMA errors. If so, you need to set the pio and qos parameters for the b43 module which is further described here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … =14e4:4315.

pahko

Member

Registered: 2010-07-13

Posts: 18

Re: driver b43 not working on 2.26.34.. I cannot connect wifi[SOLVED]

o yes that solved my problem.. thank you so much bema!!!!

bema

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Registered: 2010-02-12

Posts: 26

Re: driver b43 not working on 2.26.34.. I cannot connect wifi[SOLVED]

No problem, i am glad that did it (had the problem myself )