Hello all,
My wireless card isn’t being detected on opensuse 12.3 running on a Sony Vaio Fit 15. It’s a broadcom with chipset 4365 according to lspci -nnk. I’ve been through the previous posts related to problems with the broadcom cards for solutions and I’ve tried the various driver options including broadcom-wl but nothing seems to be working. Am I right in thinking chipset 4365 is just not working at all?
Thanks in advance,
David
On 07/12/2013 08:06 PM, dwlitchfield2 wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> My wireless card isn’t being detected on opensuse 12.3 running on a
> Sony Vaio Fit 15. It’s a broadcom with chipset 4365 according to lspci
> -nnk. I’ve been through the previous posts related to problems with the
> broadcom cards for solutions and I’ve tried the various driver options
> including broadcom-wl but nothing seems to be working. Am I right in
> thinking chipset 4365 is just not working at all?
> Thanks in advance,
The definitive source for these things is
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices. It says that
wl is the proper driver for your device.
Hi all, I cannot get this wireless chip to work. I am running 12.3 with all the latest updates, including the broadcom-dl packages from packman. After that didn’t work I tried manually installing via the link in the sticky, http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/no_net_install_bcm43xx_firmware.tar.bz2 . I am stuck, please help.
Edit: My machine is a dell Vostro 3460.
[linux-qd57.site(root)]
/root> iwconfig
p4p1 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
[linux-qd57.site(root)]
/root> lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
[linux-qd57.site(root)]
/root> ls /lib/firmware/b43*
/lib/firmware/b43:
a0g0bsinitvals5.fw b0g0initvals13.fw lcn1bsinitvals24.fw lcn400initvals33.fw lp2bsinitvals19.fw n0initvals24.fw sslpn1bsinitvals20.fw ucode15.fw ucode22_sslpn.fw
a0g0bsinitvals9.fw b0g0initvals5.fw lcn1bsinitvals25.fw lp0bsinitvals13.fw lp2initvals19.fw n0initvals25.fw sslpn1bsinitvals27.fw ucode16_lp.fw ucode24_lcn.fw
a0g0initvals5.fw b0g0initvals9.fw lcn1bsinitvals26.fw lp0bsinitvals14.fw n0absinitvals11.fw n16bsinitvals30.fw sslpn1initvals20.fw ucode16_mimo.fw ucode24_mimo.fw
a0g0initvals9.fw ht0bsinitvals26.fw lcn1initvals24.fw lp0bsinitvals15.fw n0bsinitvals11.fw n16initvals30.fw sslpn1initvals27.fw ucode16_sslpn.fw ucode25_lcn.fw
a0g1bsinitvals13.fw ht0bsinitvals29.fw lcn1initvals25.fw lp0bsinitvals16.fw n0bsinitvals16.fw n18bsinitvals32.fw sslpn2bsinitvals19.fw ucode16_sslpn_nobt.fw ucode25_mimo.fw
a0g1bsinitvals5.fw ht0initvals26.fw lcn1initvals26.fw lp0initvals13.fw n0bsinitvals17.fw n18initvals32.fw sslpn2initvals19.fw ucode17_mimo.fw ucode26_mimo.fw
a0g1bsinitvals9.fw ht0initvals29.fw lcn2bsinitvals24.fw lp0initvals14.fw n0bsinitvals22.fw n1bsinitvals20.fw sslpn3bsinitvals21.fw ucode19_sslpn.fw ucode27_sslpn.fw
a0g1initvals13.fw lcn0bsinitvals24.fw lcn2bsinitvals25.fw lp0initvals15.fw n0bsinitvals24.fw n1initvals20.fw sslpn3initvals21.fw ucode19_sslpn_nobt.fw ucode29_mimo.fw
a0g1initvals5.fw lcn0bsinitvals25.fw lcn2bsinitvals26.fw lp0initvals16.fw n0bsinitvals25.fw n2bsinitvals19.fw sslpn4bsinitvals22.fw ucode20_sslpn.fw ucode30_mimo.fw
a0g1initvals9.fw lcn0bsinitvals26.fw lcn2initvals24.fw lp1bsinitvals20.fw n0initvals11.fw n2initvals19.fw sslpn4initvals22.fw ucode20_sslpn_nobt.fw ucode32_mimo.fw
b0g0bsinitvals13.fw lcn0initvals24.fw lcn2initvals25.fw lp1bsinitvals22.fw n0initvals16.fw pcm5.fw ucode11.fw ucode21_sslpn.fw ucode33_lcn40.fw
b0g0bsinitvals5.fw lcn0initvals25.fw lcn2initvals26.fw lp1initvals20.fw n0initvals17.fw sslpn0bsinitvals16.fw ucode13.fw ucode21_sslpn_nobt.fw ucode5.fw
b0g0bsinitvals9.fw lcn0initvals26.fw lcn400bsinitvals33.fw lp1initvals22.fw n0initvals22.fw sslpn0initvals16.fw ucode14.fw ucode22_mimo.fw ucode9.fw
/lib/firmware/b43legacy:
a0g0bsinitvals2.fw a0g0initvals2.fw a0g1bsinitvals5.fw b0g0bsinitvals2.fw b0g0initvals2.fw pcm4.fw ucode11.fw ucode4.fw
a0g0bsinitvals5.fw a0g0initvals5.fw a0g1initvals5.fw b0g0bsinitvals5.fw b0g0initvals5.fw pcm5.fw ucode2.fw ucode5.fw
[linux-qd57.site(root)]
/root> rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-desktop-3.7.10-1.1.1.x86_64
kernel-default-devel-3.7.10-1.16.1.x86_64
kernel-xen-devel-3.7.10-1.1.1.x86_64
kernel-source-3.7.10-1.1.1.noarch
kernel-source-3.7.10-1.16.1.noarch
kernel-devel-3.7.10-1.1.1.noarch
kernel-desktop-devel-3.7.10-1.1.1.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.7.10-1.16.1.noarch
kernel-default-3.7.10-1.16.1.x86_64
kernel-syms-3.7.10-1.1.1.x86_64
kernel-xen-devel-3.7.10-1.16.1.x86_64
kernel-default-devel-3.7.10-1.1.1.x86_64
kernel-desktop-3.7.10-1.16.1.x86_64
texlive-l3kernel-2012.60.svn_3570svn26111-4.2.1.noarch
kernel-desktop-devel-3.7.10-1.16.1.x86_64
kernel-syms-3.7.10-1.16.1.x86_64
patterns-openSUSE-devel_kernel-12.3-7.10.1.x86_64
nfs-kernel-server-1.2.7-2.10.1.x86_64
kernel-firmware-20130114git-1.2.1.noarch
[linux-qd57.site(root)]
/root> rpm -qa | grep wl
broadcom-wl-kmp-default-5.100.82.112_k3.7.10_1.16-11.5.x86_64
broadcom-wl-kmp-default-5.100.82.112_k3.7.10_1.16-11.4.x86_64
broadcom-wl-5.100.82.112-11.5.x86_64
/root> dmesg | grep -b5 43142
44164- 1.773468] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem
44273- 1.819266] usb 2-1.5: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
44349- 1.846954] [drm] Enabling RC6 states: RC6 on, RC6p on, RC6pp off
44418- 1.907028] usb 2-1.5: New USB device found, idVendor=0a5c, idProduct=21d7
44496- 1.907032] usb 2-1.5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
44579: 1.907034] usb 2-1.5: Product: BCM43142A0
44625- 1.907036] usb 2-1.5: Manufacturer: Broadcom Corp
44679- 1.907038] usb 2-1.5: SerialNumber: E006E6D47994
44732- 1.908302] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
44789- 2.731124] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 170x48
44860- 2.733433] fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device