wireless in suse 11.2 bcm4312

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Hi there,

Ive been playing around with getting my wireless to work for the past couple hours and am running into some problems.

Network manager and yast dont seem to recognize my wireless chip, and not sure why.

After some googling, there was a package from the suse site that said it was the broadcom driver for this chip, i installed it, no errors, but still no wireless.

Here is the info:


0e:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

0e:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)

dmesg has the following to say about it:

    4.878634] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0e:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
    4.878650] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0e:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
    5.503796] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
    5.519489] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1)
    5.519538] b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -95

and iwconfig doesnt recognize it…

I am no pro when it comes to this at all, but i seems like the firmware is installed correctly, but the drivers arent…

If anyone has any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance.

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On 11/12/2009 04:26 PM, serari wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Ive been playing around with getting my wireless to work for the past
> couple hours and am running into some problems.
>
> Network manager and yast dont seem to recognize my wireless chip, and
> not sure why.
>
> After some googling, there was a package from the suse site that said
> it was the broadcom driver for this chip, i installed it, no errors, but
> still no wireless.
>
> Here is the info:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> 0e:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
>
> 0e:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)

Doesn’t anyone ever do a search for old problems???

If you had done even a cursory search for Broadcom + 4315, you would have seen
that you need to install (1) the Broadcom-wl package, (2) a 2.6.32-rc6 kernel,
or (3) ndiswrapper. I have such a device and use (2). You seem to have installed
the Broadcom wl package, but you likely forgot to blacklist ssb and b43.

3

sorry about not searching harder…

Anyways, i got it working thanks to you advice.

Just wanted to say thanks

4

not being a technical person, a question comes to mind:

why on earth does one need to install an unstable kernel that is not part of the 11.2 distro release at all in order to activate a three year old wireless chip?

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On 11/13/2009 10:36 AM, Dimble ThriceFoon wrote:
>
> not being a technical person, a question comes to mind:
>
> why on earth does one need to install an unstable kernel that is not
> part of the 11.2 distro release at all in order to activate a three year
> old wireless chip?

Because the reverse-engineering process can be slow. Have you helped?

6

I have the same problem with the same card. But the the Broadcom-wl package install doesnt work . I could connect to my network, but the internet doesnt go. I get my wireless connetion to start at boot time, and wired to start with cable.

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here is iwconfig, maybe it help

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"TUMIMB39"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:1E:58:0E:9E:5A
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Managementmode:All packets received
          Link Quality=5/5  Signal level=-32 dBm  Noise level=-92 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

pan0      no wireless extensions
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On 11/13/2009 12:16 PM, pison1 wrote:
>
> here is iwconfig, maybe it help

Just to let you know, I don’t help debug broadcom-wl or ndiswrapper.

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Question. Why use ndiswrapper or broadcom-wl (didn’t work on my BCM4311 openSUSE 11.2 x64)…if the b43 drivers work great?
Just for consideration b43 - Linux Wireless

sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

And as root

modprobe b43
10

Sorry for the double post, but I couldn’t edit my previous one. Stumbled on this thread, might help BCM 4322 On Fresh 11.2 Install, Not Working - openSUSE Forums

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On 11/14/2009 08:36 AM, kaspievelna wrote:
>
> Sorry for the double post, but I couldn’t edit my previous one. Stumbled
> on this thread, might help ‘BCM 4322 On Fresh 11.2 Install, Not Working
> - openSUSE Forums’ (http://tinyurl.com/yzl9omd)

As you now know, the b43 driver does not work with all BCM43XX devices.

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I am exactly in your situation. I have opensuse 11.2 install + the firmware update for BCM4312 which ran successfully. Could you please tell me what else you did after this to make wireless work or please tell where I can find some instructions on how to do it?

Thanks

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On 12/16/2009 07:06 PM, arbask wrote:
>
> serari;2064746 Wrote:
>> sorry about not searching harder…
>>
>> Anyways, i got it working thanks to you advice.
>>
>> Just wanted to say thanks
> I am exactly in your situation. I have opensuse 11.2 install + the
> firmware update for BCM4312 which ran successfully. Could you please
> tell me what else you did after this to make wireless work or please
> tell where I can find some instructions on how to do it?

Search this forum for BCM4312 or Broadcom wl. There are two kinds of
BCM4312. One is an 802.11a/b/g model that can use the built-in driver
b43 and needs firmware. The 802.11b/g model does not use b43.

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Hello all,

It’s now March. What is the status of this driver now? Is it still necessary to get the non-standard kernel to make this work?

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On 03/03/2010 02:56 PM, thepustule wrote:
>
> It’s now March. What is the status of this driver now? Is it still
> necessary to get the non-standard kernel to make this work?

Nothing has changed. OpenSUSE never changes the kernel version of a release. As
11.2 came out with 2.6.31, it will have 2.6.31 forever. As that device is not
supported until 2.6.32, you do the math.

When 11.3 comes out, it will have 2.6.33 and that kernel is available on the
Factory repo.