Broadcom 4311 Wireless Drivers error

Okay, sorry for going super newbie on everything. First off, I checked both Arch Installation guides. I checked the Broadcom section in the wiki. I'm trying to install arch linux on an old (2007) Lenovo 3000 c100 laptop, to revive it and make it better. However it had a broadcom driver which I know isn't supported by Linux. Luckily for me, there was a driver for it: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php on that page. I download the 32-bit and put it on a flash drive, since I don't have an internet connection from it, and used mount to mount the flash drive. After trying to install the driver through pacman, it said the package was either "invalid" or "corrupted'. Just great. I tried doing many different things. Including re-downloading. Same. I really appreciate any help. thanks

Did you use the AUR package or the tar ball. Because I find that using the tar ball it doesn't get the module working correctly sometimes. Your best bet would be to do this download this file http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broad … -wl.tar.gz
Then run the following commands
tar zxvf broadcom-wl.tar.gz
cd broadcom-wl
makepkg -si
Then run these commands
rmmod b43 ssb
modprobe wl
Then make sure you black list b43 and ssb in your rc.conf file and add wl to your modules in your rc.conf and if you are going to be using encryption then also add lib80211_crypt_tkip.

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Hello all!!!. I Was able to Install a Full Arch Linux Install including a Full GUI (GNOME). Now i'm installing this on a MacBook Pro so this is INTEL hardware. I'm running the x86_64 version. Now im trying to install my Wireless drivers (Broadcom BCM312) Now i was able to compile and install YAY!. Using Makepkg and Pacman install method. Now following this guide to install http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312 . I Now to do these following commads
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# modprobe wl
# insmod /lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko
Now when i do this command i get the following error in Terminal: WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf line 5: ignoring bad line starting with 'MODULES=(!snd_pcsp). Im getting this for "modprobe lib80211_crypt_tkip"
now when i do this command i get the following error in Terminal: WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf line 5: ignoring bad line starting with 'MODULES=(!snd_pcsp)'. Im Getting this for "modprobe wl"
and Last but not least when i do this command i get the Follow error in Terminal: insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko': -1 File exists. And im getting this for "insmod /lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko". Please assist!
Thanks! And this is my Offical first post in Arch Linux Forums ::)

Correct - no bumping. See here for details on this and other guidelines for using this forum.
Re your issue - the first message is quite clear IMO. Line 5 of your modprobe.conf is not in the correct format i.e. it's a bad line, so modprobe is ignoring it. It also says it is a warning, not an error. If you want it to go away, fix line 5.
The second message is an error, due to a mistake on that wiki page. Use either modprobe or insmod (preferably modprobe) to load the wl driver, but not both.

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Cannot get Broadcom 4311 to work with my custom linux kernel 2.6.27. The scenario is that it is properly installed and works with Arch's stock kernel and the vanilla kernel.
As my computer boots, I get the error message:
:: Loading standard ACPI modules
FATAL: Module b43 not found
I know I don't have it as a module (I wanted it to be in the kernel), but I tried it anyhow, lol.
$ dmesg | grep b43
b43-pci-bridge 0000:06:00.0: device not available because of BAR 0 [0x0-0x3fff] collisions
b43-pci-bridge: probe of 0000:06:00.0 failed with error -22
I have no idea what this means nor does my friend Google. :\
$ modprobe -ls | grep b43
Returns nothing.
$ lspci | grep Broadcom
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Just as proof that it is a broadcom.
$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:D4:A3:2C:BD
inet addr:69.17.55.5 Bcast:69.17.55.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1638 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1822 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:959914 (937.4 Kb) TX bytes:253460 (247.5 Kb)
Interrupt:10
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)
And as you can see, wlan0 doesn't exist anymore.
I thought all I needed for my wireless/broadcom to work (in my kernel) is:
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[*] Wireless LAN (pre-802.11)
[*] Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)
<*>Broadcom 43xx wireless support (mac80211 stack)
Networking support ---> Wireless
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<*>Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (DEPRECATED)
<*> IEEE 802.11 WEP encryption (802.1x)
<*> IEEE 802.11i CCMP support
<*> IEEE 80.211i TKIP encryption
I am not using initrd.
Question: Any idea what I am missing?
I'll be going through some trail-and-error runs for now.
Last edited by Aprz (2008-10-24 14:04:49)

Well, it's still not working. I tried just taking parts from the working kernel and replacing the parts of my custom kernel under wirelss, but that didn't do the trick. I am probably going to copy anything related to PCI and IO Mapping next do the BAR collision and b43-pci-bridge error I am getting and see if that works.

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I have also tried to extract the firmware from some older versions of the driver, but the same thing happens. What's curious is that it'll still say "Firmware-ID: FW13" in /var/log/everything.log...
So, anybody have any clues? I guess it's not that urgent, but it sucks that I have to use a proprietary driver. The only other option I haven't tried is ndiswrapper, and frankly, I'm not sure I want to

On my machine:
lspci | grep -i broadcom
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
dmesg | grep -i broadcom
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
grep MODULES /etc/rc.conf
MODULES=(b43 !b44 !pcspkr !snd_pcsp)
I wanted to look at the MODULES section on your machine because, indeed, I was planning to suggest something along the lines of "b43 !wl". Now I suppose that it would not work (as you seem to have already tried it).

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