Broadcom wireless driver - brcm80211

multiphrenic · 2011-08-07 14:12:40

I had been working fine for almost a week on 3.0.0 and now suddenly this morning started to receive the following:

Aug  7 09:55:27 localhost kernel: [  825.796697] ieee80211 phy0: wl0: fifo 0: descriptor error
Aug  7 09:55:27 localhost kernel: [  825.796713] ieee80211 phy0: wl0: fatal error, re-initializing

Unloading / reloading the module did not work, restarted a few times but still had no luck.

.:B:. · 2011-08-07 15:39:10

Did you try compat-wireless?

multiphrenic · 2011-08-07 22:18:52

That worked..for now. Will keep an eye on it to see if it comes back. For those interested, download the latest drivers from http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download and follow the instructions under build / install then reboot.

.:B:. · 2011-08-07 23:43:35

There are AUR packages you know .

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O … _Search=Go

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multiphrenic · 2011-08-07 23:49:33

Thanks..missed those. The AUR packages for compat-wireless I found on AUR has not been updated since April. In either case, the problem's back..

Last edited by multiphrenic (2011-08-07 23:51:08)

.:B:. · 2011-08-08 00:02:54

Sorry to hear. The PKGBUILD hasn't been updated, but it's pretty simple: all you need to do is change the pkgver, the script takes care of the rest. And change the kernel26 references to linux of course.

arch_art · 2011-08-08 17:14:52

Hi,
after upgrade, I got the linux 3. i read that brcm80211 was renamed to brcmsmac .
The module is loaded but I cannot see the wireless interface

 #  lsmod  | grep brc
brcmsmac              594624  0 
brcmutil                6563  1 brcmsmac
mac80211              215605  1 brcmsmac
cfg80211              160516  2 brcmsmac,mac80211
crc_ccitt               1331  1 brcmsmac

# lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0510]


 #  iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Suggestions are welcome.

thanks

multiphrenic · 2011-08-08 21:46:31

what does lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 show?
any errors in dmesg or /var/log/kernel.log

bazkil · 2011-08-08 23:10:42

arch_art wrote:

Hi,
after upgrade, I got the linux 3. i read that brcm80211 was renamed to brcmsmac .
The module is loaded but I cannot see the wireless interface

 #  lsmod  | grep brc
brcmsmac              594624  0 
brcmutil                6563  1 brcmsmac
mac80211              215605  1 brcmsmac
cfg80211              160516  2 brcmsmac,mac80211
crc_ccitt               1331  1 brcmsmac

# lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0510]


 #  iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Suggestions are welcome.

thanks

I have the same problem.

arch_art · 2011-08-08 23:39:02

#    lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0510]

here are the lines from my kernel.log since last reboot

http://pastebin.com/QUkygjbc

I cannot see what is wrong.

The kernel module loads without trouble. I don't know where to start to fix this

multiphrenic · 2011-08-09 00:54:49

I've been having a ton of issues with the same card as you.. Have you tried blacklisting the modules and installing broadcom-wl from AUR? use modprobe wl and see if that still works.

nitori · 2011-08-09 20:32:50

@arch_art and @bazkil

Blacklisting the module `bcma` does the trick for fixing the wifi (or at least it fixed it for my BCM4313). After you remove that module, you should be able to use brcmsmac like normal.

petrakos · 2011-08-09 20:51:55

Hi, I have the same problem as bazkil and arch_art, except my card is BCM43224 instead of BCM 4313.
I tried blacklisting bcma as nitori suggests, but to no avail.
Any tip is welcomed.

arch_art · 2011-08-10 02:09:51

Thanks Nitori, but no luck (yet).

Blacklisting bcma makes no difference.
No interface is shown.
Previously, I was using tux on ice kernel 2.6.38-4, and wireless worked without problems.

I guess from 2.6.38 to 3 kernel there was more than a rename for this module.

csocratess · 2011-08-10 08:27:09

I am on kernel 3.0, and have a broadcom 4313 wifi card, blacklisting the "bcma" module did it for me.. Thanks!

arch_art · 2011-08-10 14:38:59

@csocratess
are you using brcmsmac module?
for blacklisting, have you done it in rc.conf with: MODULES=( !bcma ) ?

Last edited by arch_art (2011-08-10 14:39:30)

nitori · 2011-08-10 16:18:26

arch_art wrote:

@csocratess
are you using brcmsmac module?
for blacklisting, have you done it in rc.conf with: MODULES=( !bcma ) ?

I know that method of blacklisting is at the very least depreciated, but as of recent updates I don't think it works at all now. This is how I blacklisted:

Contents of /etc/modules.d/modules.conf

blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist bcma

If you have broadcom-wl installed, you may want to blacklist that as well (`wl` is the module name).

To see if you were successful, execute

grep bcma /proc/modules

If there is no output, then blacklisting was successful.

Edit: And this is assuming you are using the brcmsmac driver

Last edited by nitori (2011-08-10 16:20:36)

arch_art · 2011-08-11 01:28:33

I confirm that blacklisting solved the problems. thanks to everyone, specially @nitori and @csocratess

@petrakos, did you tried as nitori said in his last post?

thanks again.

monojp · 2011-08-11 06:35:25

if the brcmsmac module is auto-loaded but the device shows not up, try also explicitly specifying the module in the MODULES array in rc.conf. solved it for me

X-3me · 2011-08-11 13:40:54

my BCM4313 works with following /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf:

blacklist bcma
blacklist ipx
blacklist p8022
blacklist p8023

bazkil · 2011-08-13 06:54:06

@ nitori
Thanks! I did for me blacklisting the "bcma" module.

stealyourwife · 2011-09-26 15:45:15

I've had this problem with my broadcom device... random freezing with no rhyme or reason, running wicd with both the open sores driver and the proprietary driver... Finally I switched from wicd to netcfg and so far no freeze ups ... still crossing my fingers.

Wilco · 2012-03-03 20:51:52

monojp wrote:

if the brcmsmac module is auto-loaded but the device shows not up, try also explicitly specifying the module in the MODULES array in rc.conf. solved it for me

Adding brcmsmac to the modules section in /etc/rc.conf gives me a kernel panic

pixy · 2012-04-05 12:40:27

Wilco wrote:

Adding brcmsmac to the modules section in /etc/rc.conf gives me a kernel panic

Same thing happend to me. Try blacklisting brcmsmac in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf, and load it by putting modprobe brcmsmac line in /etc/rc.local. Solved it for me.

Wilco · 2012-04-07 16:32:54

pixy wrote:

Wilco wrote:
Adding brcmsmac to the modules section in /etc/rc.conf gives me a kernel panic
Same thing happend to me. Try blacklisting brcmsmac in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf, and load it by putting modprobe brcmsmac line in /etc/rc.local. Solved it for me.

Yes, that's what I do with the broadcom-wl driver. Loading the brcmsmac driver through udev gives a kernel panic

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