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pacchiee

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Registered: 2014-04-06

Posts: 1

Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) - Wireless not working

I searched the forum, but couldn't find the solution to my problem.

USB Live Slitaz 4.0

"lspci | grep -i network" outputs

[c]03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)[/c]

"ifconfig" outputs

[c]eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:38:9C:2E:1D
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:9127 errors:0 dropped:24 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:9521233 (9.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1106566 (1.0 MiB)
          Interrupt:18

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)[/c]
"ifconfig -a" outputs

[c]dummy0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 96:9C:CE:28:6B:FD
          BROADCAST NOARP  MTU:1500  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)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:38:9C:2E:1D
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:9134 errors:0 dropped:25 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:9521969 (9.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1106566 (1.0 MiB)
          Interrupt:18

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)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1A:73:C5:2F:20
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B[/c]
"iwconfig" outputs

[c]lo        no wireless extensions.

dummy0    no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off[/c]
Actually, am coming from Windows and really do not have any idea what the above means. Since I was trying to get the wifi connected since two days now, have read in various forum to do the above and hence posting them here for reference.

I tried installing the "b43" drivers with no success.

Also tried "broadcom-wl" with no success.

Liked very much Slitaz, somehow wanted to use it. Please help getting my wifi to work with Slitaz.

Thanks!

tazpider

Member

Registered: 2012-03-20

Posts: 71

Re: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) - Wireless not working

Did you read this topic? There were a few issues solved [c]http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/can-someone-help-me-install-wifi-driver-please[/c]

Guest

Guest

Re: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) - Wireless not working

According to 'emgi' :-

Managed to get mine working as well. An old (HP-Compaq) laptop with a Broadcom4311.

For a long time I was unsure about the driver (b43 or wl) but 'wl' turned out to be the right one.

The last thing to get it working was from this post.

# tazpkg -gi rfkill

# rfkill unblock all

# modprobe -r b43

# modprobe wl

# /etc/init.d/network.sh start (wlan0 was automatically changed to eth1 in the process)

Working!