hey guys,
i came to you with my problem, as I can’t manage to solve it on my own…
so… I have an old HP laptop nx6325, with a broadcom wireless card, and I use OpenSUSE 11.3…
up until some time ago I managed to make my wlan0 to work but for a couple of weeks now, I’m not able to connect to my wireless router anymore
so iwlist shows me this:
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:21:91:69:CC:E4
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=55/70 Signal level=-55 dBm
Encryption key:off
ESSID:“Fratii”
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000005209b4721f
Extra: Last beacon: 60ms ago
IE: Unknown: 0006467261746969
IE: Unknown: 010482848B96
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C
Cell 02 - Address: 00:17:3F:A7:9D:57
Channel:13
Frequency:2.472 GHz (Channel 13)
Quality=28/70 Signal level=-82 dBm
Encryption key:off
ESSID:“qwerty”
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
Bit Rates:9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000001e6070c181
Extra: Last beacon: 554ms ago
IE: Unknown: 0006717765727479
IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C183048
IE: Unknown: 03010D
IE: Unknown: 050400010000
IE: Unknown: 07064E4C20010D14
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 32041224606C
I don’t know why there are 2 cells…??? I only have one wireless card…
yast2 let’s me configure (it sees my wireless router, it sets up the connection) but when I star firefox and try to browse something it doesn’t load
networkmanager doesn’t even allow me to click on the wireless tab…
so…after a couple of hours searching the forums and reading everything I still can’t make me wlan0 work…
hope you’ll be able to help me…
thanks 
hey man,
thanks for the quick reply…
here’s the result…the wireless card is the last…
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge [1002:5950] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a3f]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a36]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a37]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a38]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:12.0 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller [1002:4379] (rev 80)
Kernel driver in use: sata_sil
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller [1002:4374] (rev 80)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller [1002:4375] (rev 80)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller [1002:4373] (rev 80)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller [1002:4372] (rev 82)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller [1002:4376] (rev 80)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller [1002:437b] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Device [30b0:103c]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge [1002:4377] (rev 80)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge [1002:4371] (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
Kernel driver in use: k8temp
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] [1002:5975]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
02:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:169c] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: tg3
02:04.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller [104c:8039]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller [104c:803a]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
02:04.2 Mass storage controller [0180]: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) [104c:803b]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: tifm_7xx1
02:04.3 SD Host controller [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller [104c:803c]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
30:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN [103c:1361]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
This is you device
30:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN [103c:1361]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Try following this:
Install Broadcom Drivers from Packman
hey…
thanks …i’ve done that…it installed some other drivers…
unfortunatly it still doesn’t work… and now…iwlist doesn’t see wlan0 anymore…
what next???
Post result of the following
uname -a
rpm -qa | grep broadcom
hey…
uname-a
Linux linux-h5ks 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-12-13 11:13:53 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
rpm -qa | grep broadcom
broadcom-wl-5.100.82.38-7.pm.9.1.x86_64
broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.100.82.38_k2.6.34.7_0.7-7.pm.9.1.x86_64
thanks for your incredibli fast replys…
i might add…that the notebook has a extra button, that is a on/off for bluetooth and wireless devices, and in windows work perfectly…in linux it isn’t set up…and the blue led (which states it’s ON function) is always light up…maybe this helps…
thanks again
I need you to install something:
In the terminal become su -
zypper in rfkill
Now report the result of
/usr/sbin/rfkill list
oh… thank you… I read about rfkill here…after I did the research…but didn’t knew I had to install it…
so the result is:
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Now post again the wireless part of
/sbin/lspci -nnk
here you go…
30:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN [103c:1361]
Open a terminal and do this as su -
/sbin/modprobe -v wl
then reboot
oh man…
I just did that…and is still doesn’t work…
I’m only a feet away from the router…and when I unplug the cable… pages don’t load…kopete doesn’t work…
I’m just starting to learn linux… and I find it very very powerfull and attractive… if I manage to configure it I’ll quit windows…
thank you very much for your input…
is there anything else you can do???
30:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN [103c:1361]
of course…
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
–±------------------------------------±------------------------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | 11.3 - VideoLan | 11.3 - VideoLan | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.3/ |
2 | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.3 |
3 | openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 | openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 |
4 | packman.inode.at-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /suse/openSUSE_11.3/ |
5 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.3-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
6 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss |
7 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
8 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.3-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
9 | www2.ati.com-suse | ATI/AMD Graphics Drivers | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://www2.ati.com/suse/11.3/
OK
So it’s very odd.
Can you just confirm, that your wireless did work at an earlier point in time?
And was it with the b43 driver? If so, should we try going back to that driver?
yes…indeed it was working…and it was working on 2 routers (not at the same time), one at where I live now, and the other one from my parents house…
at some point last week I pressed that blue light button on my hp, just to see if it’s working under linux… and from that point on…the wireless card stoped working, I mean it didn’d connect to the router from my parents house…at first I thought it was the router or the walls, when I came back to my place…well…I’ve noticed that it doesn’t connect here either… so I started doing some research…and I ended up posting the problem
how can I get back the the first driver… sorry…I’m a total noob in linux… :)…but I have the will to learn and use it wisely
I have no idea what blue button you mean. But anyway…
To remove the wl driver from packman. In a terminal become su -
zypper remove broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop
Now let’s check b43 is installed properly:
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
then
sudo /sbin/modprobe -v b43
then as su -
rcnetwork restart
BTW: On another note, you should remove repo number 1 (Videolan) from your list
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide