Hello. Trying to get wireless working. I’d appreciate the help.
I can find the device with lspci -v
>lspci -v
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
Memory at d0300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: b44
>uname -r
2.6.37.1-1.2-default
I am trying to use the wl-broadcom driver. In the Software Manager I have broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-kmp-default selected.
iwconfig returns the following
>iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
In the Hardware Information provided by YaST for the wireless card wich is only found under the pci section I can see two modules section. One with modprobe ssb and one with modprobe wl. The module ssb is blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/50-broadcom-wl-blacklist.conf. However I believe it is being pulled in by b44 which is used by the wired ethernet as can be seen by pcils -v posted above.
Here is an export from Hardware Information.
32: PCI 500.0: 0280 Network controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: Ddhb.AUabv0M9SM3
Parent ID: H0_h.bsmdjgJdggA
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:05:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:05:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x4311 "BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x0007 "Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card"
Revision: 0x01
Driver: "b43-pci-bridge"
Driver Modules: "ssb"
Memory Range: 0xd0200000-0xd0203fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 18 (2 events)
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004311sv00001028sd00000007bc02sc80i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: ssb is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ssb"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: wl is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe wl"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #14 (PCI bridge)
Here is the export from the wired card.
33: PCI 800.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: rBUF.HQwXbECfpC4
Parent ID: qscc.ULOo3yhA66C
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.4/0000:08:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:08:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x170c "BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x01f5
Revision: 0x02
Driver: "b44"
Driver Modules: "ssb", "b44"
Device File: eth0
Memory Range: 0xd0300000-0xd0301fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 21 (59 events)
HW Address: 00:15:c5:c3:8f:f6
Link detected: yes
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d0000170Csv00001028sd000001F5bc02sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: b44 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe b44"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #26 (PCI bridge)
Any additional information I could provide or suggestions as to what I can do to get the wireless card up and running would be apreasheated.[/size][/size]