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christophe

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Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

broadcom 4313 - wifi not working

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):

[c]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[/c]
for information if this helps:

[c]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:~$[/c]
I installed / tried a number of drivers just in case, with no success

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[c]2014-03-08 04:23:46 - Installed - perl (5.12.3)
2014-03-08 04:23:46 - Installed - linux-source (2.6.37)
2014-03-08 05:22:11 - Installed - linux-wireless (2.6.37)
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)[/c]

lego

Member

Registered: 2014-03-09

Posts: 20

Re: broadcom 4313 - wifi not working

had the same problem previously:

Solution: You need broadcom-wl-5_100_82_112_2.6.37.tazpkg (Google will you)

christophe

Member

Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: broadcom 4313 - wifi not working

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 ?

lego

Member

Registered: 2014-03-09

Posts: 20

Re: broadcom 4313 - wifi not working

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

christophe

Member

Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: broadcom 4313 - wifi not working

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 ?

lego

Member

Registered: 2014-03-09

Posts: 20

Re: broadcom 4313 - wifi not working

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!

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