Problem with Broadcom BCM43142 on HP Pavilion

Distro version: 13.2

The installation process did not follow the normal sequence; i.e. after package installation followed by re-boot from disk the installation process did not invoke the usual configuration process (including network); possibly something todo with the UEFI boot firmware (first time I have installed on UEFI machine); the upshot of this is that the wireless interface does not work.

Yast=>Hadware Information=>Network Cards: has an entry for Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n on PCI bus, with kernel driver of “bcma”

08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2230
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        Memory at b2500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
        Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-db-ff-ff-eb-38-b1
        Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
        Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
        Kernel modules: bcma

However Yast=>Hardware Information=>Network Interfaces: has no entry for the wireless interface, it only contains entries for ethernet and loopback.

I could not find anything related to the 802.11 operation in the boot log; only entry apppears related to bluetooth:

ajw@brokkr:~> dmesg | grep -i bcm43142
    3.052913] usb 1-1.7: Product: BCM43142A0
   11.404443] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: patch brcm/BCM43142A0-0a5c-216c.hcd not found

Has anybody got any ideas on how to progress the debug of this problem? Thanks in advance.[/size]

For BCM43k series, you need to install the Packman packages for it.

Take a peek at the instructions I gave for another person with a similar chipset;
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/503033-no-wifi-with-Broadcom-on-dell-laptop

Thanks Miuku; wireless now up and running :).