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broadcom 4313 - wifi not working

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• Started 10 years ago by christophe
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   christophe
   

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   Mojo, can you help on this one. - Thanks.

   I have a Lenovo with a broadcom 4313 chipset and know (from ubuntu) wl is the correct driver to use.
   I followed the procedure you indicated in several posts about a year ago, (also referenced in a recent post today or yesterday) and lsmod indicates the wl driver is loaded (after a reboot)

   However ifconfig does not show the wifi card. Of course wifibox shows no network at all.

   dmesg shows this (the failing driver is wl but i cannot interpret the error code 26):

   wl: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
   Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
   wl 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
   wl 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
   eth%d: 5.60.246.2  driver failed with code 26

   for information if this helps:

   tux@slitaz:~$ lspci | grep 4313
   03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
   tux@slitaz:~$ 
   
   tux@slitaz:~$ lsmod | grep wl
   wl                   1937352  0
   lib80211                2676  1 wl
   tux@slitaz:~$ 
   
   tux@slitaz:~$ ifconfig
   eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:9E:01:30:13:EB
             inet addr:192.168.0.5  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
             UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
             RX packets:6751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
             TX packets:5977 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
             collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
             RX bytes:7344795 (7.0 MiB)  TX bytes:824038 (804.7 KiB)
             Interrupt:17 
   
   lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
             inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
             UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  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:0
             RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
   
   tux@slitaz:~$

   I installed / tried a number of drivers just in case, with no success

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   2014-03-08 05:31:26 - Installed - b43legacy-firmware (3.130.20.0)
   2014-03-08 05:44:50 - Installed - broadcom-wl (5.60.246.2_2.6.37)

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   lego
   

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   had the same problem previously:
   Solution: You need broadcom-wl-5_100_82_112_2.6.37.tazpkg (Google will you)

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   christophe
   

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   Thanks Lego,

   Was it with 4313 or another one ? Tried and it has not worked (but it could be me, can you confirm before I investigate more ?)

   I can 'ifconfig eth1 up' but see no ssid still; in addition dmesg says:

   eth1: Broadcom BCM4727 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 5.100.82.112

   so BCM4727, not BCM4313....

   Iwconfig says:

   root@slitaz:/home/tux# iwconfig
   lo no wireless extensions.

   dummy0 no wireless extensions.

   eth0 no wireless extensions.

   eth1 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:off/any
   Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=200 dBm
   Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
   Encryption key:off
   Power Management:off

   root@slitaz:/home/tux#

   Also the latest version on the broadcom site is 6.30.223.141
   I would be keen to compile it and make a slitaz package if that helps; i have already recompiled Slitaz from the source in the past.
   But now I am stuck to build the driver; I am missing somethings to make it work wth the build instructions from broadcom on this page.... http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

   Can anyone give some directions ?

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   lego
   

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   yes, mine:

   tux@slitaz:~$ lspci | grep Wireless
   07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

   and yours too right ?

   I think you need to unload all broadcom driver (b43 and wl) before modprobing the new wl?

   Here is my wireless start up script: (as root)

   #!/bin/sh

   tazpkg -i broadcom-wl-5_100_82_112_2.6.37.tazpkg
   modprobe wl
   cp -f mynetwork.conf /etc/network.conf

   ifconfig eth1 up
   iwconfig eth1 txpower auto
   /etc/init.d/network.sh start
   sleep 3
   watch iwconfig&

   ---
   Hope it helps

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   christophe
   

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   Was my fault.

   It kind of works, ie, it works, but at ~4mbs while 16mbps on Ubuntu ;)

   The ethernet cable is also working at 6 mpbs (16 on ubuntu), so there is probably some to blame on ubuntu and some on the driver.
   It had never come to my mind that ubuntu was stonger on network performance than slitaz.
   Will try the latest rolling though.

   Thanks for your help.

   Do you also have recommendations by chance re: how to compile the driver successfully ?

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   lego
   

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   that's great Christophe :) I'm also experinced the same but It works either way hence this is my "mobility" distro in USB. It's small in memory and fast, Love it very much.

   e: how to compile the driver successfully ?
   that's a Mojo's things :)
   I'm just an expert in copy paste programming ...lol.

   Have a great day and enjoy Slitaz!

   (sent from Tazweb)

   Posted 10 years ago #

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