Broadcom Wireless 14e4:4365 chipset

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