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Japanlinux

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Registered: 2010-05-18

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[SOLVED] Brcmsmac not loading on boot?

Hello, I installed the brcmsmac driver for my netbook and have a curious problem. In order to use the driver after each boot I have to do modprobe brcmsmac. After that, none of the network managers are able to connect me to the internet. So I have to do 'ip link set wlan0 up' and 'iwconfig wlan0....' Still the managers don't see the internet. So I have to do dhcpcd wlan0. Is there something interfering with my driver, which is labeled by the wiki as "No further action is necessary on the part of the user." I certainly have to take many actions to use the driver. I looked at the driver thread, but I didn't notice anyone having this particular problem, so I thought I'd post and ask.

I guess I should also say that brcmsmac is in the Modules in my rc.conf

Last edited by Japanlinux (2011-08-01 02:35:11)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Brcmsmac not loading on boot?

Something fishy is going on, maybe it's the same in your case:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25308
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123329
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123453
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123456
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123462

Check /etc/modprobe.d/ to see if any new files appeared.

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Re: [SOLVED] Brcmsmac not loading on boot?

Brcmsmac is provided by the Arch kernel. Why did you install it separately?

I haven't got it in my modules array myself, no problems here.

$ grep ^MODULES /etc/rc.conf
MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq)
$ lspci -nn|grep Wireless
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
$ lsmod|grep brcmsmac
brcmsmac              569896  0 
mac80211              224639  1 brcmsmac
brcmutil                6688  1 brcmsmac
cfg80211              165395  2 brcmsmac,mac80211
$ iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

broadcom  IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"Zeus 802.11g"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=19 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:72   Missed beacon:0

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Japanlinux

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Registered: 2010-05-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Brcmsmac not loading on boot?

Forgive me, I worded that wrong. I didn't install the driver myself. What I did was take the chance to reinstall a fresh system on my netbook with this install. And this time I used the built-in brcmsmac driver instead of the wl one I used to use. After reading the links karol listed, it looks like blacklist_net.conf blacklists my driver. Why would it do this? I have no idea why it was blacklisted, but thank you guys for helping me figure it out!

EDIT: After playing around with it a bit, I discovered that I have to keep a certain r8169 driver blacklisted. No idea what it is, but in case anyone else has my problem, make sure that stays blacklisted.

Last edited by Japanlinux (2011-08-01 02:34:58)