[SOLVED] Broadcom wireless card behaving very strangely

My wireless card has become unusable in an obscure fashion after a reboot. It may have been due to the recent kernel update, but I rebooted once after that update and the card was fine, so I'm not sure. Wireless was working without a hitch for months before this.
I have a Macbook Pro 9,1 with a Broadcom BCM4331 wireless card. I use the b43 firmware.
The firmware is being loaded on boot, but that vague "link is not ready" error appears every time the system attempts to load the firmware:
[ 12.263906] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4331 WLAN found (core revision 29)
[ 12.264337] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 9, Type 7 (HT), Revision 1
[ 12.264864] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS ]
[ 12.728423] systemd-udevd[210]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlp3s0
[ 15.801790] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[ 15.888891] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
[ 186.474169] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[ 186.561426] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
[ 326.465714] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[ 326.552778] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
[ 683.592477] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[ 683.679541] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
[ 1350.060493] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[ 1350.147545] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
[ 1474.360067] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[ 1474.447162] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
[ 1667.887393] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[ 1667.967795] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
[ 2110.770119] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[ 2110.857285] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
When I try to use netctl to connect to my home network, I get the same error:
-- Unit [email protected] has begun starting up.
Jan 22 18:36:40 tenfoxes network[3072]: Starting network profile 'home'...
Jan 22 18:36:41 tenfoxes kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
Jan 22 18:36:41 tenfoxes kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
Jan 22 18:36:56 tenfoxes network[3072]: WPA association/authentication failed for interface 'wlp3s0'
Jan 22 18:36:56 tenfoxes network[3072]: Failed to bring the network up for profile 'home'
Jan 22 18:36:56 tenfoxes systemd[1]: [email protected]: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 22 18:36:56 tenfoxes systemd[1]: Failed to start Networking for netctl profile home.
If I scan for networks using iw dev wlp3s0 scan, I get no output. Here's the debug output from that if it means anything to anyone—from the docs on netlink I read it doesn't seem to show anything unusual:
-- Debug: Sent Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 36
.type = 26 <0x1a>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438118
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 33
.version = 0
.unused = 0
[PAYLOAD] 16 octets
08 00 03 00 03 00 00 00 08 00 2d 00 04 00 01 00 ..........-.....
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Received Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 36
.type = 2 <ERROR>
.flags = 0 <>
.seq = 1390438118
.port = 3698
[ERRORMSG] 20 octets
.error = 0 "Success"
[ORIGINAL MESSAGE] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 16
.type = 26 <0x1a>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438118
.port = 3698
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Sent Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 32
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438119
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 3
.version = 1
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 7 octets
6e 6c 63 74 72 6c 00 nlctrl.
[PADDING] 1 octets
00 .
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Received Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 116
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 0 <>
.seq = 1390438119
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 1
.version = 2
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 7 octets
6e 6c 63 74 72 6c 00 nlctrl.
[PADDING] 1 octets
00 .
[ATTR 01] 2 octets
10 00 ..
[PADDING] 2 octets
00 00 ..
[ATTR 03] 4 octets
02 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 04] 4 octets
00 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 05] 4 octets
07 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 06] 20 octets
14 00 01 00 08 00 01 00 03 00 00 00 08 00 02 00 ................
0e 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 07] 24 octets
18 00 01 00 08 00 02 00 10 00 00 00 0b 00 01 00 ................
6e 6f 74 69 66 79 00 00 notify..
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Received Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 36
.type = 2 <ERROR>
.flags = 0 <>
.seq = 1390438119
.port = 3698
[ERRORMSG] 20 octets
.error = 0 "Success"
[ORIGINAL MESSAGE] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 16
.type = 16 <0x10>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438119
.port = 3698
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Sent Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 32
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438120
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 3
.version = 0
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 8 octets
6e 6c 38 30 32 31 31 00 nl80211.
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Sent Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 32
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438121
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 3
.version = 1
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 7 octets
6e 6c 63 74 72 6c 00 nlctrl.
[PADDING] 1 octets
00 .
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Received Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 116
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 0 <>
.seq = 1390438121
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 1
.version = 2
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 7 octets
6e 6c 63 74 72 6c 00 nlctrl.
[PADDING] 1 octets
00 .
[ATTR 01] 2 octets
10 00 ..
[PADDING] 2 octets
00 00 ..
[ATTR 03] 4 octets
02 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 04] 4 octets
00 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 05] 4 octets
07 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 06] 20 octets
14 00 01 00 08 00 01 00 03 00 00 00 08 00 02 00 ................
0e 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 07] 24 octets
18 00 01 00 08 00 02 00 10 00 00 00 0b 00 01 00 ................
6e 6f 74 69 66 79 00 00 notify..
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Received Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 36
.type = 2 <ERROR>
.flags = 0 <>
.seq = 1390438121
.port = 3698
[ERRORMSG] 20 octets
.error = 0 "Success"
[ORIGINAL MESSAGE] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 16
.type = 16 <0x10>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438121
.port = 3698
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Sent Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 32
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438122
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 3
.version = 0
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 8 octets
6e 6c 38 30 32 31 31 00 nl80211.
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Sent Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 32
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438123
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 3
.version = 1
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 7 octets
6e 6c 63 74 72 6c 00 nlctrl.
[PADDING] 1 octets
00 .
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Received Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 116
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 0 <>
.seq = 1390438123
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 1
.version = 2
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 7 octets
6e 6c 63 74 72 6c 00 nlctrl.
[PADDING] 1 octets
00 .
[ATTR 01] 2 octets
10 00 ..
[PADDING] 2 octets
00 00 ..
[ATTR 03] 4 octets
02 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 04] 4 octets
00 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 05] 4 octets
07 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 06] 20 octets
14 00 01 00 08 00 01 00 03 00 00 00 08 00 02 00 ................
0e 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 07] 24 octets
18 00 01 00 08 00 02 00 10 00 00 00 0b 00 01 00 ................
6e 6f 74 69 66 79 00 00 notify..
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Received Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 36
.type = 2 <ERROR>
.flags = 0 <>
.seq = 1390438123
.port = 3698
[ERRORMSG] 20 octets
.error = 0 "Success"
[ORIGINAL MESSAGE] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 16
.type = 16 <0x10>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438123
.port = 3698
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Sent Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 32
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438124
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 3
.version = 0
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 8 octets
6e 6c 38 30 32 31 31 00 nl80211.
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Sent Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 32
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438125
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 3
.version = 1
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 7 octets
6e 6c 63 74 72 6c 00 nlctrl.
[PADDING] 1 octets
00 .
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Received Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 116
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 0 <>
.seq = 1390438125
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 1
.version = 2
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 7 octets
6e 6c 63 74 72 6c 00 nlctrl.
[PADDING] 1 octets
00 .
[ATTR 01] 2 octets
10 00 ..
[PADDING] 2 octets
00 00 ..
[ATTR 03] 4 octets
02 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 04] 4 octets
00 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 05] 4 octets
07 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 06] 20 octets
14 00 01 00 08 00 01 00 03 00 00 00 08 00 02 00 ................
0e 00 00 00 ....
[ATTR 07] 24 octets
18 00 01 00 08 00 02 00 10 00 00 00 0b 00 01 00 ................
6e 6f 74 69 66 79 00 00 notify..
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Received Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 36
.type = 2 <ERROR>
.flags = 0 <>
.seq = 1390438125
.port = 3698
[ERRORMSG] 20 octets
.error = 0 "Success"
[ORIGINAL MESSAGE] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 16
.type = 16 <0x10>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438125
.port = 3698
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Sent Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 32
.type = 16 <genl/family::nlctrl>
.flags = 5 <REQUEST,ACK>
.seq = 1390438126
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 3
.version = 0
.unused = 0
[ATTR 02] 8 octets
6e 6c 38 30 32 31 31 00 nl80211.
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Received Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 172
.type = 26 <0x1a>
.flags = 0 <>
.seq = 0
.port = 0
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 34
.version = 1
.unused = 0
[PAYLOAD] 152 octets
08 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 03 00 03 00 00 00 ................
0c 00 99 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 2d 00 ..............-.
04 00 00 00 74 00 2c 00 08 00 00 00 6c 09 00 00 ....t.,.....l...
08 00 01 00 71 09 00 00 08 00 02 00 76 09 00 00 ....q.......v...
08 00 03 00 7b 09 00 00 08 00 04 00 80 09 00 00 ....{...........
08 00 05 00 85 09 00 00 08 00 06 00 8a 09 00 00 ................
08 00 07 00 8f 09 00 00 08 00 08 00 94 09 00 00 ................
08 00 09 00 99 09 00 00 08 00 0a 00 9e 09 00 00 ................
08 00 0b 00 a3 09 00 00 08 00 0c 00 a8 09 00 00 ................
08 00 0d 00 b4 09 00 00 ........
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Sent Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 28
.type = 26 <0x1a>
.flags = 773 <REQUEST,ACK,ROOT,MATCH>
.seq = 1390438127
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 32
.version = 0
.unused = 0
[PAYLOAD] 8 octets
08 00 03 00 03 00 00 00 ........
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
-- Debug: Received Message:
-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
[NETLINK HEADER] 16 octets
.nlmsg_len = 20
.type = 3 <DONE>
.flags = 2 <MULTI>
.seq = 1390438127
.port = 3698
[GENERIC NETLINK HEADER] 4 octets
.cmd = 0
.version = 0
.unused = 0
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
If I try to use wpa-supplicant, it will say "Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant" as if it had properly made a connection, but it hasn't. Running iw dev wlp3s0 link will show that the card isn't connected to anything, and of course the internet still doesn't work.
I know it's not a hardware problem because the wireless works fine in Mac OS.
What gives? Is there a way I can investigate this further? It seems like a driver and/or kernel issue but I'm not really sure how to nail that down with confidence. I couldn't find any reports in the kernel bug tracker about this or anything, so maybe it's just me and I'm doing something wrong.
Thanks!
Last edited by tenfoxes (2014-01-24 02:44:16)

Yay, that worked!
I guess I really should've tried that initially, huh? Since the wiki said not to use it unless you had an unsupported wireless card, I figured I shouldn't (b43 officially supports mine). Still, considering that it's easy to install/uninstall drivers, my caution was obviously unwarranted.
Thanks for your help!

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error inserting 'wl.ko': -1 File exists ...
i continued despite this error and when i was done, i couldn't detect the card with iwconfig or wicd.. the modules named "wl" and "lib80211" are loaded but i still can't detect it..
i uninstalled, re-installed and i got the same behaviour..
so then i tried the BCM43xx driver as described here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … up#BCM43XX
i unpacked the firmware and restarted but i still couldn't detect it.. and i couldn't load the bcm43xx module because arch says was not found..
then i tried the driver after that "b43".. followed the steps on the wiki, restarted, and i still couldn't detect the card with iwconfig or wicd..
i have been trying to get this to work for 3 days now.. i appreciate your time and help in this issue..
thanks

thanks for the reply tomk..
so at least we limited the problem to using broadcom-wl..
here is dmesg after modprobe -r wl
Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.5
usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
Adding 1895660k swap on /dev/sda4. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1895660k
forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 4398045793691 ns)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
lib80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL'
and after modprobe wl:
lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
i'm not that good with gnu/linux, so i'm not sure if something is wrong from these messages... do they point to anything?

Trackpad began to behave very strangely

After installation Mac OS X v10.7 Lion on my MacBook Air trackpad began to behave very strangely. I just moving the pointer but it's clicking during the movings (closing windows, tapping links etc).
So, how to fix it?

48 hours ago, I installed Lion on my Macbook purchased in the spring of 2009. Everything seemed normal, until I went to type. Regardless if it was in Facebook to reply to a thread, Text Edit, Mac Mail, my cursor would erratically act possessed, cursor appearing in the middle of a blue highlighted portion of what I had just typed. I was cursing my Macbook, wondering what on earth was wrong!
I should state that when I installed Lion, it was from Leopard. I erased Leopard entirely from my hard drive from the Lion disk utility. I did my updates. Called Apple Tech Support today, ended up with a supervisor. Both people I spoke to were terrific. During this phone call, I was advised to reinstall Lion without erasing it from my hard drive. Just to reinstall over the top of what was already on my hard drive. Did this, and to my surprise two software updates arose for Airport Utility and iTunes!! Did those updates. It didn't require a reboot.
I still had erratic-possessed cursor problems. At this point, I went to my iMac desktop, unplugged my new keyboard, and plugged the usb keyboard into my Macbook. This worked beautifully. At this point the lightbulb turned on. With the wired usb keyboard plugged in, I shut down my Macbook. I unplugged the USB keyboard, and rebooted my Macbook. My Macbook keyboard, cursor, trackpad are now cooperating in the manner in which they should be.
I can only suggest to reinstall Lion, without reformatting your hard drive. Check for updates. Reboot. Try my external USB keyboard suggestion. GOOD LUCK!

Broadcom Wireless Card Setup Problems

Hello there, I'm very new to Archlinux and to linux overall. Since I'm done with my classes for the summer, I had the crazy idea to setup a home web server with my old machine and at the same time use the wireless card as an acess point for my laptop. The problem is that I followed all the steps in the Archlinux wiki about the wireless setups for the B43 driver several times. However, my system seams to ignore all my efforts and keeps making fun of me. According to what I understood, it's not setting up the network interface. (Which is suposed to be done automaticly I think) So here's a bunch of troubleshooting commands results.
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lspci | grep -e Network
01:06.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
lshw -C network
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:01:06.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32
resources: irq:16 memory:40000000-40001fff
lsmod| grep -e b43 -e bcm43xx -e ssb -e ndiswrapper
b43 172775 0
ssb 44979 1 b43
mmc_core 52043 2 b43,ssb
pcmcia 29658 2 b43,ssb
mac80211 171331 1 b43
cfg80211 126817 2 b43,mac80211
led_class 2609 1 b43
Here are the links I followed to try to setup and try to troubleshoot my things
For b43 driver:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=780692
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
For ndiswrapper driver
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=780590
(There was an other one that told how to set it up but i can't find it)

Ok, I"ve done it and I got a few errors.
b43-pci-bridge 0000:01:06.0: PCI INT A disabled
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
b43-pci-bridge 0000:01:06.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ssb: PCI-ID not in fallback list
ssb: CHIPID not in nrcores fallback list
ssb: Core 0 found: UNKNOWN (cc 0x8FF, rev 0x7F, vendor 0xFFFF)
ssb: WARNING: Invalid SPROM CRC (corrupt SPROM)
ssb: Unsupported SPROM revision 255 detected. Will extract v1
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:01:06.0
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMLS, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
So, does that mean that I don't use the proper firmware?

[SOLVED] BCM43241 wireless card seems to not exist.

Hey guys, I'm trying to install Arch on a Sony Vaio Duo 13. Unfortunately, it only has a wifi card and no ethernet port. Usually, installing wireless card drivers involves using lspci to detect what card I have, then finding the drivers and firmware for it. But this time the card (BCM43241) does not show up at all in Arch (it works in Windows). There's no trace of it with lspci or lsusb (fyi: it's a builtin card).
Here's my lspci and lsusb output:
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller )rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA Compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 0a0c (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Ppoint-LP USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
00:16/0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP HECI #0 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP SMBus Controller (rev 04)
lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:58df Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:5722 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp. Kingston DataTraveler 102 Flash Drive / HEMA Flash Drive 2 GB / PNY Attache 4GB Stick
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Any thoughts on why the device doesn't show up? Is there any other output I can provide?
Last edited by trusktr (2013-11-14 07:45:03)

trusktr wrote:@paperwastage. I'm not sure how to tell if connects through SDIO, but yeah, based on that link you posted seems like it does. But when I do dmesg | grep brcm is shows aboslutely nothing. There's no trace of my card anywhere. It just seems like Arch has no clue that the card exits (let alone that it's a wireless card). Does yours at least show up with lshw or lspci?
nope, mine doesn't show up via lshw/lspci/lsusb, probably because it's not connected to the pci / usb bus (probably connected directly to SoC)
maybe your kernel doesn't have brcmfmac loaded. try this in root
#unload brcmfmac
modprobe -r brcmfmac
#reload brcmfmac
modprobe brcmfmac
note down the logs that should print on screen (and in dmesg)
also, go to windows, use some application to read your system (I've used http://rh-software.com/)
it showed my Broadcom 802.11abgn Wireless SD Adapter mounted on "SD\VID_.....", which is the SDIO port

[SOLVED] Broadcom wireless BCM4322 with b43 no connection (recently)

Hi there,
recently (not sure when exactly, as my Notebook is mostly docked with ethernet LAN) my wireless stopped connecting to different routers. This came to my attention about 3 weeks ago.
My wireless card is a Broadcom, see
$ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01)
and used to run just fine using the b43 driver blacklisting the b43legacy. Now wireless stopped working, and I am not able to connect to networks either protected by WPA/2 or even WEP, somehow the authentication fails.
I am using NetworkManager with Gnome 3.4.2 and re-installed the b43-firmware from AUR today
$ uname -a
Linux Spiff 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 26 09:14:51 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ pacman -Qi networkmanager
Name : networkmanager
Version : 0.9.6.0-1
$ pacman -Qi b43-firmware
Name : b43-firmware
Version : 5.100.138-2
URL : http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
Depends On : linux>=3.2
Installed Size : 1052,00 KiB
Architecture : any
Build Date : Mi 12 Sep 2012 13:27:09 CEST
Install Date : Mi 12 Sep 2012 13:27:13 CEST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Description : Firmware for Broadcom B43 wireless networking chips
I switched from initscripts to systemd somewhere in July, but not sure if it is coincidence, as all modules still load fine, and I can see SSIDs as before.
$ dmesg | grep b43
[ 1672.938354] b43-phy1: Broadcom 4322 WLAN found (core revision 16)
[ 1673.004863] Registered led device: b43-phy1::tx
[ 1673.004881] Registered led device: b43-phy1::rx
[ 1673.004901] Registered led device: b43-phy1::radio
[ 1700.930077] b43-phy1: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
$ lsmod | grep b43
b43 353762 0
ssb 49827 1 b43
pcmcia 35785 2 b43,ssb
bcma 25146 1 b43
mac80211 416391 1 b43
mmc_core 81526 4 b43,ssb,sdhci,sdhci_pci
cfg80211 173210 2 b43,mac80211
I started the NetworkManager from the console and attached the log (excerpt, see full debug log with link below)
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
NetworkManager[2572]: <warn> Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long.
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none') [50 60 0]
NetworkManager[2572]: <warn> Activation (wlan0/wireless): asking for new secrets
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> disconnected
NetworkManager[2572]: <warn> Couldn't disconnect supplicant interface: This interface is not connected.
NetworkManager[2572]: <warn> No agents were available for this request.
NetworkManager[2572]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets') [60 120 7]
NetworkManager debug log
Google resp. searching the forums did not give me a clue. However I switched to the broadcom-wl driver, and now wireless is working again. Nevertheless I would like to use the b43 driver, mainly for the reason that my neighborhood is quite busy with WLAN, and I like to run my router on channel 13, but the broadcom-wl driver only seems to support channel 1-11 in contrast to the b43 driver; also b43 is the OpenSource recommended one, according to the wiki.
Any help or ideas is appreciated. Thanks in advance, best regards,
christoph
Last edited by roepi (2013-11-24 18:43:55)

Koven wrote:My only limitation right now is that I can't connect to any hidden ESSID network
Hmmm, my limitation with the wl driver is, that channel 12/13 is not supported. As far as I found out there is no way to make it work, as the driver itself does not support it.
Koven wrote:Wiki says b43 is supported for BCM4322 but if you go to the link they give you it says it's not supported.
On the b43 Linux Wireless site as well as in the wiki the BCM4322 [14e4:432b] is listed as "Not in kernel26-lts" and "partially in 2.6.39+". Where did you find it is not supported at all?
However it used to work on my machine month ago flawlessly with the b43 driver, but somehow stopped working. That's why.

Windows 7 driver for GeForce 320m Graphic Card and Broadcom wireless card

I just got my 11" MacAir (2011)and installed Windows 7 on it using Parallel software. Everything works fine except for the driver for the Broadcom BCM 43xx1.0 airport wireless card and for the GeForce 320m graphic card. Windows 7 cannot find the drivers. I have tried everything to find a solution: Downloaded the drivers from the Broadcom and NVIDIA websites, used the drivers that came with bootcamp and made changes to the nvao.inf file for the graphic card problems but nothing works. Does anyone know a solution to these problems? Many thanks.

Hi,
since Parallels is not an Apple product it would be better to use their own Support resources.
However, Parallels does not use the native (real) hardware of your Mac but virtualizes certain hardware.
The video adapter is a "VGA and SVGA with VESA 3.0 compatible Video Adapter" and the WiFi is mapped to a "Ethernet Virtual network card compatible with RTL8029".
For these virtual devices Parallels brings all drivers with it and names them "Parallels Tools" which you have to install manually while in our Parallels Windows virtual machine.
Refer to the Parallels User Guide http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v6/docs/en/ParallelsDesktop_UsersGuide/
Regards
Stefan

Problems with Broadcom wireless card after Kernel Upgrade

After upgrading to version 2.6.39 of the linux kernel, I am having trouble with my Broadcom BCM4312 wireless card. The broadcom-wl driver no longer seems to work, even after reinstalling it from the AUR. The b43 driver seems to be able to connect to unencrypted networks, but can no longer connect to my family's WPA Personal encrypted router. Is anybody else having a similar problem?

As I understand it my laptop has been fine and it uses broadcom-wl, and I just re-yaourt it each time my kernel version changes using a cable in my router. But I believe there is something called dkms and a version of the driver for it, which (I haven't read fully into it) is something like a separate tree, which can (from what little I've read) eliminate this need to recompile every time, however I literally read this 5 minutes ago, from the AUR page for broadcom-wl and a quick google so I wouldn't be surprised if there is more to it than that.

Broadcom wireless card dissapears???

Hi all,
I've been bamboozled by this little issue for a while now. My HP G6000 has an in built broadcom 802.11g wireless adapter, but for a while, I've been having issues with it. It was working one day, then the next, gone. It wasn't detected by anything, not even device manager. I even opened the laptop up to check the card was still there. It was, but for some reason, the computer never picks it up. Occasionally, after resetting the bios or whilst the computer is on, it does start up and become detectable again, but this is such a rare occurrence that I may as well not even bother to get my hopes up. This is just another problem from a laptop with a history riddled with problems, one of which it overheated on boot up and was only useful as a doorstop for 2 whole years...
If anyone has any good ideas or questions, I would be very grateful indeed.
Thanks for your time,
Smileygeckos

The first symptom I had before my gpu went (dv9810) was that my dvd drive disappeared from device manager. This was also intermittent, at first, but eventually it was gone for good. I restored my system using the recovery partition, but the dvd drive never came back.
The reason I mention all this is because, after I baked my motherboard, everything was working again, and I wonder if heating the entire board somehow reflowed the dvd connection also. This is all speculation on my part, but it kind of makes sense.
Anyway, if you get to that "nothin to lose" point, you might want to pop it in the oven.
Good luck
Jeff

[SOLVED] PCMCIA wireless card not recognized

Hi, in reading other forums i have seen several others with similar problems to mine but never a solution, so my question is: is there a way to manually change pcmcia_cs or card firmware to make my existing card work (rather than buying an 802.11b card with prism chipset or similar)?
Card is a Buffalo 802.11g/b wireless pcmcia card (broadcom chipset - notoriously bad with linux). I am willing to buy the linuxant ndiswrapper to load the windows driver. However the card is not even recognized by the kernel.
lspci shows a broadcom device present
cardctl ident lists no devices in either pcmcia port
power indicator led on card remains off in linux (card functions well in windows XP) Neither PCLinuxOS live cd nor Knoppix live cd were able to detect presence of card either.
So, although i can install the windows driver for the card, the driver is not linked to any pcmcia device because the system is not aware of its existance.
Again, is there anyway to change pcmcia_cs or update firmware to allow linux to see that this card exists?
thanks

Ok, here is all the info I can think to give. I really appreciate all of your help.
Card: Buffalo Airstation WLI-CB-G54A
included here: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpw … x.php/List
[root@hendrix ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
02:05.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8)
02:05.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8)
02:05.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4320 (rev 03)
[root@hendrix ~]# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
no product info available
[root@hendrix ~]# cardctl info
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
[root@hendrix ~]# cardctl config
Socket 0:
Vcc 3.3V Vpp1 3.3V Vpp2 3.3V
interface type is "cardbus"
irq 9 [exclusive] [level]
function 0:
Socket 1:
not configured
(note, using DSL PPPOE connection to post right now)
[root@hendrix ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ppp_synctty 12032 0
ppp_async 13312 1
crc_ccitt 2432 1 ppp_async
ppp_generic 32788 6 ppp_synctty,ppp_async
slhc 7936 1 ppp_generic
radeon 78336 1
ohci_hcd 23048 0
ehci_hcd 36488 0
parport_pc 29252 1
eth1394 22280 0
pcspkr 4044 0
rtc 13260 0
ohci1394 35716 0
ieee1394 111800 2 eth1394,ohci1394
yenta_socket 23560 3
snd_intel8x0m 19396 0
snd_intel8x0 34624 2
snd_ac97_codec 79224 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 56608 0
snd_mixer_oss 21376 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 98948 4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 27524 1 snd_pcm
snd 60004 11 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 11232 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10244 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
i2c_i801 8972 0
i2c_core 23808 1 i2c_i801
hw_random 5908 0
usb_storage 72000 0
usbhid 47744 0
uhci_hcd 33424 0
usbcore 125816 6 ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,usb_storage,usbhid,uhci_hcd
shpchp 100996 0
pci_hotplug 35400 1 shpchp
e100 37760 0
mii 5760 1 e100
pcmcia 26512 0
rsrc_nonstatic 11648 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 51872 3 yenta_socket,pcmcia,rsrc_nonstatic
tsdev 8256 0
evdev 9984 0
sonypi 25184 0
lp 12548 0
parport 38984 2 parport_pc,lp
nls_cp437 6144 1
vfat 14976 1
fat 41884 1 vfat
ntfs 187792 2
[root@hendrix ~]# modprobe i82365
FATAL: Error inserting i82365 (/lib/modules/2.6.11.3-ARCH/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.ko): No such device
[root@hendrix ~]# insmod -f /lib/modules/2.6.11.3-ARCH/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.ko
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.11.3-ARCH/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.ko': -1 No such device
It just occurred to me after previewing my post that I unintentionally updated my kernel the other day. I'll try to revert to the original 2.6.10 kernel, but i doubt this will fix the pcmcia problem. (though, it will allow me to use phrakture's ndiswrapper pkg.)

[SOLVED] Intel+Compiz+Catalyst-utils = VERY strange error!

So,
I have an intel graphics card and am using the intel i8x0 driver - but compiz fusion refuses to run unless I have catalyst-utils present - what gives? Also the latest catalyst-utils breaks CF and I can't pin it in pacman.conf using HoldPkg.
This is very peculiar, any thoughts?
Last edited by floke (2008-02-21 15:28:49)

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