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coruja

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Registered: 2011-08-31

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[SOLVED] BCM4312 wifi card doesn't works on my Inspiron 1525

Hi guys!

I would like to apologize myself for any english mistakes that happen in this message. So, I've recently installed Arch Linux 3.0 for the very first time on my laptop. Everything is fine but the BCM4312 wifi card. I'd appreciate if you please help me with this task. Can you?

I've tried to install this already, but it didn't work:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

This are some information that can help you:

$ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

$ ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:C9:F9:AE:F6  
          inet addr:192.168.1.106  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21e:c9ff:fef9:aef6/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:39580 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:33613 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:47025479 (44.8 Mb)  TX bytes:3740792 (3.5 Mb)
          Interrupt:16 

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:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1120 (1.0 Kb)  TX bytes:1120 (1.0 Kb)

$uname -a
Linux myhost 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 30 07:32:23 UTC 2011 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5450 @ 1.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

sudo lspci -vvn|grep 43 -A7
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 43
        Region 0: I/O ports at 6eb0 [size=8]
        Region 1: I/O ports at 6eb8 [size=4]
        Region 2: I/O ports at 6ec0 [size=8]
        Region 3: I/O ports at 6ec8 [size=4]
        Region 4: I/O ports at 6ee0 [size=32]
        Region 5: Memory at fe9fb800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/4 Maskable- 64bit-
--
09:00.0 0200: 11ab:4354 (rev 12)
        Subsystem: 1028:022f
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 44
        Region 0: Memory at fe8fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Region 2: I/O ports at de00 [size=256]
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0b:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 1028:000b
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at fe7fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3

This is my /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist bcma
blacklist ssb
blacklist b43

Last edited by coruja (2011-09-04 07:58:39)

krisoijn

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Registered: 2011-03-18

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Re: [SOLVED] BCM4312 wifi card doesn't works on my Inspiron 1525

If your card is in the following list, you can use the broadcom-wl driver:
PCI-ID	 Name
[14e4:4311]	 BCM4311
[14e4:4312]	 BCM4311
[14e4:4313]	 BCM4311
[14e4:4315]	 BCM4312
[14e4:4727]	 BCM4313
[14e4:4328]	 BCM4321
[14e4:4329]	 BCM4321
[14e4:432a]	 BCM4321
[14e4:432b]	 BCM4322
[14e4:432c]	 BCM4322
[14e4:432d]	 BCM4322
[14e4:4353]	 BCM43224
[14e4:4357]	 BCM43225
[14e4:4358]	 BCM43227
[14e4:4359]	 BCM43228

You'll need broadcom-wl package form AUR

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br … roadcom-wl

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coruja

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Registered: 2011-08-31

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] BCM4312 wifi card doesn't works on my Inspiron 1525

If your card is in the following list, you can use the broadcom-wl driver:
PCI-ID	 Name
[14e4:4311]	 BCM4311
[14e4:4312]	 BCM4311
[14e4:4313]	 BCM4311
[14e4:4315]	 BCM4312
[14e4:4727]	 BCM4313
[14e4:4328]	 BCM4321
[14e4:4329]	 BCM4321
[14e4:432a]	 BCM4321
[14e4:432b]	 BCM4322
[14e4:432c]	 BCM4322
[14e4:432d]	 BCM4322
[14e4:4353]	 BCM43224
[14e4:4357]	 BCM43225
[14e4:4358]	 BCM43227
[14e4:4359]	 BCM43228

You'll need broadcom-wl package form AUR

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br … roadcom-wl

It didn't work too.

krisoijn

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Registered: 2011-03-18

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Re: [SOLVED] BCM4312 wifi card doesn't works on my Inspiron 1525

Is your rc.conf contain these?

MODULES=(lib80211 wl)

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Gusar

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Re: [SOLVED] BCM4312 wifi card doesn't works on my Inspiron 1525

You've actually blacklisted the driver that makes this thing work. Which is ssb and b43. Then you need firmware, so get the b43-firmware package from AUR. Wl is an alternative driver, but it's not necessary, b43 has supported your card since 2.6.33.

coruja

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Registered: 2011-08-31

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Re: [SOLVED] BCM4312 wifi card doesn't works on my Inspiron 1525

Is your rc.conf contain these?

MODULES=(lib80211 wl)

No.

You've actually blacklisted the driver that makes this thing work. Which is ssb and b43. Then you need firmware, so get the b43-firmware package from AUR. Wl is an alternative driver, but it's not necessary, b43 has supported your card since 2.6.33.

I'm going to try this.

fteem

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Re: [SOLVED] BCM4312 wifi card doesn't works on my Inspiron 1525

I also have BCM4312 on Dell Inspiron 1545. Just take this approach and it should work just fine.

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coruja

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Registered: 2011-08-31

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Re: [SOLVED] BCM4312 wifi card doesn't works on my Inspiron 1525

I also have BCM4312 on Dell Inspiron 1545. Just take this approach and it should work just fine.

It worked! Thank you so much guys!