Wifi not working - Dell Inspiron 1564 - Broadcom BCM4312

STK0F · 2011-07-20 03:05:38

Hello everybody, I have a problem getting my wireless network working.
I already installed the necessary driver and wicd sees the network but is not getting connection.

Some friends of archlinux-br are helping me so far but still can not solve everything.
Start wicd was not finding networks more this has been solved now wicd connects to network but can not open any page.

We've tried to ping, change / etc / resolv.conf but no solution yet.
If anyone has any suggestions I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Here some relevant information:

[k@ArchNote ~]$ lspci |grep Network
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
[k@ArchNote ~]$

[k@ArchNote ~]$ pacman -Q |grep broadcom
broadcom-wl 5.100.82.38-4
[k@ArchNote ~]$

[k@ArchNote ~]$ pacman -Q |grep wicd
wicd 1.7.0-10
wicd-client-kde 0.2.1-2
[k@ArchNote ~]$

rc.conf

[k@ARCH-K ~]$ cat /etc/rc.conf 
#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# DAEMON_LOCALE: If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon
# startup and during the boot process. If set to 'no', the C locale is used.
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
#   in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
#   Note: Using "localtime" is discouraged.
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
# VERBOSE: Verbose level (from 1 to 8). man 3 syslog for level info
#
LOCALE="pt_BR.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="America/Recife"
KEYMAP="br-abnt2"
CONSOLEFONT="lat0-16"
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
VERBOSE="3"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Blacklisting is no longer supported.
#   Replace every !module by an entry as on the following line in a file in
#   /etc/modprobe.d:
#     blacklist module
#   See "man modprobe.conf" for details.
#
MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave r8169 lib80211 wl)

# Udev settle timeout (default to 30)
UDEV_TIMEOUT=30

# Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) Volumes at startup
USEDMRAID="no"

# Scan for BTRFS volumes at startup
USEBTRFS="no"

# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
#
HOSTNAME="ARCH-K"

# Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
#
# Wired network setup
#   - interface: name of device (required)
#   - address: IP address (leave blank for DHCP)
#   - netmask: subnet mask (ignored for DHCP)
#   - gateway: default route (ignored for DHCP)
# 
# Static IP example
# interface=eth0
# address=192.168.0.2
# netmask=255.255.255.0
# gateway=192.168.0.1
#
# DHCP example
# interface=eth0
# address=
# netmask=
# gateway=

interface=eth0
address=
netmask=
gateway=

# Setting this to "yes" will skip network shutdown.
# This is required if your root device is on NFS.
NETWORK_PERSIST="no"

# Enable these netcfg profiles at boot-up. These are useful if you happen to
# need more advanced network features than the simple network service
# supports, such as multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
#   - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
#   - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
#
# This requires the netcfg package
#
#NETWORKS=(main)

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
# If something other takes care of your hardware clock (ntpd, dual-boot...)
# you should disable 'hwclock' here.
#
DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng hal cpufreq !network netfs crond wicd)
[k@ARCH-K ~]$

[k@ARCH-K ~]$ cat /etc/rc.conf |grep MODULES
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Blacklisting is no longer supported.
MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave r8169 lib80211 wl)
[k@ARCH-K ~]$

[k@ARCH-K ~]$ cat  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist ssb
blacklist b43
[k@ARCH-K ~]$

lsmod

[k@ARCH-K ~]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  288690  28 
reiserfs              238662  1 
ext2                   63714  1 
mbcache                 5793  1 ext2
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     22784  1 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   297871  1 
uvcvideo               62143  0 
videodev               78070  1 uvcvideo
media                  10437  1 videodev
v4l2_compat_ioctl32     8364  1 videodev
lib80211_crypt_tkip     8546  0 
wl                   2527048  0 
snd_hda_intel          22186  4 
snd_hda_codec          77543  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
i915                  648410  8 
i2c_i801                8195  0 
dell_laptop             8211  0 
snd_hwdep               6342  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                73736  4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
drm_kms_helper         27529  1 i915
rfkill                 15498  1 dell_laptop
joydev                  9959  0 
snd_timer              19488  2 snd_pcm
drm                   181991  4 i915,drm_kms_helper
iTCO_wdt               12781  0 
snd                    57256  13 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
i2c_algo_bit            5239  1 i915
soundcore               6178  1 snd
dcdbas                  5560  1 dell_laptop
i2c_core               20165  6 videodev,i915,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
sg                     25621  0 
r8169                  41003  0 
dell_wmi                1557  0 
sparse_keymap           3128  1 dell_wmi
snd_page_alloc          7161  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
intel_ips              11285  0 
wmi                     8387  1 dell_wmi
intel_agp              10848  1 i915
intel_gtt              14359  3 i915,intel_agp
mii                     4003  1 r8169
serio_raw               4366  0 
pcspkr                  1891  0 
iTCO_vendor_support     1969  1 iTCO_wdt
psmouse                54752  0 
cpufreq_powersave       1030  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        6172  4 
video                  11300  1 i915
evdev                   9530  19 
lib80211                4198  2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl
thermal                 7903  0 
fan                     2498  0 
battery                10945  0 
ac                      3305  0 
button                  4510  1 i915
acpi_cpufreq            5809  1 
freq_table              2491  2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
processor              24328  1 acpi_cpufreq
mperf                   1315  1 acpi_cpufreq
xfs                   744464  2 
sr_mod                 14663  0 
cdrom                  36393  1 sr_mod
sd_mod                 27379  6 
ahci                   20905  5 
libahci                18925  1 ahci
libata                173061  2 ahci,libahci
scsi_mod              130020  4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
ehci_hcd               39359  0 
usbcore               142192  3 uvcvideo,ehci_hcd
[k@ARCH-K ~]$

[k@ARCH-K ~]$ ping -c3 www.google.com.br
ping: unknown host www.google.com.br
[k@ARCH-K ~]$ ping -c3 74.125.229.115
PING 74.125.229.115 (74.125.229.115) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 74.125.229.115 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2007ms

ifconfig

[k@ARCH-K ~]$ ifconfig 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B8:AC:6F:6B:01:34  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:270 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:300 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:65554 (64.0 Kb)  TX bytes:40693 (39.7 Kb)
          Interrupt:41 Base address:0xa000 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr F0:7B:CB:14:DB:C1  
          inet6 addr: fe80::f27b:cbff:fe14:dbc1/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:26445
          TX packets:119 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:3324 (3.2 Kb)  TX bytes:11361 (11.0 Kb)
          Interrupt:17 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:288 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:288 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:21088 (20.5 Kb)  TX bytes:21088 (20.5 Kb)

[k@ARCH-K ~]$ scrot -d3
[k@ARCH-K ~]$

Some pictures

Mod Edit -- Please follow image posting rules. Use thumbnails only -- Inxsible

Thank you

Last edited by Inxsible (2011-07-20 04:52:41)

ewaller · 2011-07-20 04:18:42

Can you please post the output of iwconfig ??

STK0F · 2011-07-20 04:47:07

ewaller wrote:

Can you please post the output of iwconfig ??

Of course,

Only with the wifi

[k@ARCH-K ~]$ iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11  Nickname:""
          Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Link Quality:5  Signal level:241  Noise level:199
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0

[k@ARCH-K ~]$

After connecting the cable network

[k@ARCH-K ~]$ iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11  Nickname:""
          Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Link Quality:5  Signal level:0  Noise level:199
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0

[k@ARCH-K ~]$

ewaller · 2011-07-20 05:13:54

I am afraid I just cannot read the pictures you posted. Unless your router user WPA or WPA2, I would like to not use wicd for now.

Lets make sure the wifi is working. can you post the output of iwlist scan ??

STK0F · 2011-07-20 05:51:32

I will read about the rules to post image here now.

Here is the output of iwlist svann

[k@ArchNote ~]$ iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1      Interface doesn't support scanning.

[k@ArchNote ~]$

ewaller · 2011-07-20 14:33:43

Ouch. That might be why wicd is letting you down.

Um... Do you know the ESSID of the router? Do you know if it is open, WEP, or WPA/WPA2 ?

STK0F · 2011-07-20 18:41:42

ewaller wrote:

Ouch. That might be why wicd is letting you down.
Um... Do you know the ESSID of the router? Do you know if it is open, WEP, or WPA/WPA2 ?

Sorry but where I take the SSID?

The connection is WEP

Thank you.

marxav · 2011-07-20 18:50:35

The SSID is an identifier of your choice that yourlself give to your router. It is normally human friendly...

STK0F · 2011-07-21 23:41:25

marxav wrote:

The SSID is an identifier of your choice that yourlself give to your router. It is normally human friendly...

Thank you Marxav,

Still carry on with my fight here, wicd can see on the networks but to get the same ip it says it was not possible.
What could prevent this?

I think the problem is to recognize on which network it is connecting, I've read several texts of the wiki but so far nothing: /

marxav · 2011-07-22 01:07:33

What do you mean by getting the same IP?
What exact message do you get?
Is WEP configured correctly?
No that you have few thing working, you might want to post the output of iwconfig and ifconfig.

Emeric · 2011-07-28 10:26:54

You can use the proprietary driver, your configuration seems fine to me.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br … roadcom-wl

You can also try to use the kernel's one, tts working badly, but its working...
Just revert the modules blacklisted (ssb and b43) and blacklist the wl one. If you ends up with a similar problem, maybe your problem is not comming from the driver.

Last edited by Emeric (2011-07-28 10:30:52)

STK0F · 2011-07-31 07:10:36

Sorry for the delay responding, I was running through here.

I formatted it again and this time I installed networkmanager, I tested yesterday at a friend's house and the network it funciounou so the problem is in my setup, it connects but does not load the pages or the ping.

Using WEP key, I'll give it a read deeper into the part of the configuration of networks, yet no idea of what might be.

Thanks again for the help everyone.

STK0F · 2011-07-31 08:25:31

I do not understand.
I posted the previous message by windows since the wifi was not picking up on my network in the arch.

Reset to the arch and take wifi without me doing anything.
I ran some commands to identify what is currently running as probably go down again like before.

follows:

[k@ARCH ~]$ ifconfig 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B8:AC:6F:5C:A4:70  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:41 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr F0:7B:CB:14:DB:C1  
          inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::f27b:cbff:fe14:dbc1/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:896 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:785
          TX packets:727 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:754684 (736.9 Kb)  TX bytes:83483 (81.5 Kb)
          Interrupt:17 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1440 (1.4 Kb)  TX bytes:1440 (1.4 Kb)

[k@ARCH ~]$ iwlist scann
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1      Interface doesn't support scanning.

[k@ARCH ~]$ iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11  Nickname:""
          Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Link Quality:5  Signal level:201  Noise level:199
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0

[k@ARCH ~]$

[    7.165098] hda_codec: ALC269: BIOS auto-probing.
[    7.166989] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input10
[    7.262770] input: HDA Intel Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11
[    7.262993] input: HDA Intel Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input12
[    7.393505] Linux media interface: v0.10
[    7.403926] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    7.462770] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M (0c45:641d)
[    7.605292] input: Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.0/input/input13
[    7.605579] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[    7.605688] USB Video Class driver (v1.0.0)
[    9.369742] EXT3-fs (sda6): using internal journal
[    9.840209] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[    9.923097] REISERFS (device sda8): found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
[    9.925759] REISERFS (device sda8): using ordered data mode
[    9.938214] REISERFS (device sda8): journal params: device sda8, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
[    9.943433] REISERFS (device sda8): checking transaction log (sda8)
[    9.991858] REISERFS (device sda8): Using r5 hash to sort names
[   10.107237] Adding 2045948k swap on /dev/sda9.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2045948k 
[   11.179589] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: i915 driver attached, reenabling gpu turbo
[   14.033717] r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth0: link down
[   24.187158] dell-wmi: Unknown key 3a pressed
[   25.861236] dell-wmi: Unknown key 3a pressed
[   81.151195] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   81.152700] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   91.368539] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
[   94.914913] EXT4-fs (sda7): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
[  165.872391] chromium-sandbo (1456): /proc/1454/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/1454/oom_score_adj instead.
[  291.022898] dell-wmi: Unknown key 3a pressed
[  292.008052] dell-wmi: Unknown key 3a pressed
[  297.588251] dell-wmi: Unknown key 3a pressed
[  298.141461] dell-wmi: Unknown key 3a pressed
[  378.171985] dell-wmi: Unknown key 3a pressed
[  378.520932] dell-wmi: Unknown key 3a pressed
[  393.937003] hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.
[k@ARCH ~]$

the output of dmesg me aware of this part:

[ 91.368539] eth1: no IPv6 routers present

This has something to do with the instability of the network?

Thank you.

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#1 2011-07-20 03:05:38

Wifi not working - Dell Inspiron 1564 - Broadcom BCM4312

#2 2011-07-20 04:18:42

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