Acer Laptop (BCM43227) Wireless Problem

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Good Day!

I managed to do a fresh installation of Opensuse 12.2 in my Acer laptop. Everything works so far but my wifi is not functioning correctly. At first, it couldn’t be recognized by Opensuse but I managed to install the package (1 Click install) from this link. My Broadcom WLAN controller is then recognized. When I try to establish a connection, it would say Status: connected but it is stuck in “Waiting for authorization” and after few minutes it would be “Not connected”. So far, I have tried the following:

  1. Restart the router. Delete the existing network connection and create a new one, check system connection and connect automatically.

  2. Network Manager → switch among the option to store the file (always prompt, in file,…)

  3. Delete the configuration of kwallet and network manager -> I saw a solution like this but it won’t work for me.

  4. Create and login a new user.

I am going nuts because all the solutions I have found that could help me are not working on my side. I hope someone can assist me? Point me to the right direction/method to troubleshoot my problem?

Info about my wifi

WLAN eth1: Broadcom BCM43227
Kernel driver: wl
Installed packages/firmware: broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop, broadcom-wl, b43-firmwware, b43-fwcutter
Router authentication: WPA2/PSK

Thank You in advance! :slight_smile:

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Use wired connection

su -
zypper in rfkill

then post result of

/usr/sbin/rfkill list

and

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net

and

uname -a
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Hi! Thank You for replying… I installed rfkill and got the following results:
**
Output of /user/sbin/rfkill list**

0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no

**Output of /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep iA2 net
**


02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1083] (rev c0)
        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:054f]
        Kernel driver in use: atl1c
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43227 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4358]
        Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e040]
        Kernel driver in use: wl

Output of uname -a


Linux nalix.enix 3.4.6-2.10-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 26 09:36:26 UTC 2012 (641c197) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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OK
That looks OK
Except the soft block on the bluetooth, but just how or even if that impacts on the wlan, I don’t know.
It sounds more like it is all working, but that you have some config issue. In kde, you should let kwallet store the secrets and: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/SUSE%20Misc/kde-wireless-new.png

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On 10/15/2012 10:36 PM, caf4926 wrote:
>
> OK
> That looks OK
> Except the soft block on the bluetooth, but just how or even if that
> impacts on the wlan, I don’t know.
> It sounds more like it is all working, but that you have some config
> issue. In kde, you should let kwallet store the secrets and:
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/SUSE%20Misc/kde-wireless-new.png

ANY block stops ALL wireless devices. Thus the Bluetooth block will inhibit
the wifi radio. You need to solve that problem. If you are not using BT, then
unloading that driver should take care of it.

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I unblocked it all including the bluetooth using rfkill.

Btw, I also tried a different desktop environment (XFCE) thinking it would solve the problem, but same result. I’ll try to uninstall the drivers and install them again. Hope it works…>.>

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This is now solved. Thank You caf4926 and lwfinger! I managed to get some help from my Network Professor and it works now. Not sure though how it happened… He removed the package and installed it again… also advised me to reset the router’s settings before trying it again. So yeah, problem solved. Thanks again! :slight_smile:

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Could you please tell me the detailed solutions? I met the same problems now. Thanks.

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Please start a new thread, stating your openSUSE version, the desktop environment used, and what you’ve done so far to get the wifi card working.

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I’m sorry for that I cannot paste the detailed information you need cause I’m now in a train. However I rememberef I did the followings.I checked：ifconfigiwconfigiwlist scanimesgpcilst -nnrfkilllspci -nnk | grep -iA2 netand installed：hybrid_wlbroadcom_wlb43-firmwwarechange kde to gnomeshift from ifup to nmthe results are almost the same like this post. wireless connection is on but cannot scan wifi. Manually adding a connection would’nt succeed. The only problem I’m confused now is that I did these on a opensuse-12.2-xen kernel, instead of desktop version, so maybe it was for a lack of proper drivers for bcm43227 on the kernel.Sorry again for lacking of information, I will paste the details when there’s a wifi for it’s hard to do that on a phone.