Wireless LAN Broadcom 4312 [Solved]

[Rajkumar]

Hi,

I am really new to linux. Have managed to install Sabayon 4, however am struggling to get my wireless LAN going.

The hardware is compaq CQ40 317TU and wireless PCI card is Broadcom4312. I have tried using ndswrapper, it does say that bcmwl5 installed but no hardware is detected.

Can somebody let me know if 4312 is one of the working devices?? Also the steps to be followed. I also need the correct driver.

Thanks a lot, I really like sabayon, and I want to give it a try.

cheers

[joeoden]

am struggling to get my wireless LAN going

First thing to do is plug in a network cable (providing you can), either from router to computer or modem to computer then in a terminal type
su
Password: (type your password)

equo update

emerge --sync && layman -S

equo conf update

Then install wicd
http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php? ... _with_WICD

If wicd still not working then in a terminal as root type
emerge wicd

More info
viewtopic.php?t=17533#p100758

[Rajkumar]

Hi,

Thanks. Did all that you mentioned,wicd seems to be running. However the wireless card is still not detected.

localhost rajkumar # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

localhost rajkumar # iwconfig wlan0 essid skyway
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
localhost rajkumar # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. SD/MMC Host Controller
05:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Standard SD Host Controller
05:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. MS Host Controller
05:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. xD Host Controller
localhost rajkumar # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions

regards
Rajkumar

[pepe999]

Hi,
Some time ago I had problems with bcm4318 and found out not all drivers are working. Searched some forums and the best drivers for 4312 are here..
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
Can you past here your "lsmod", please? There might be an incorrect driver in the system already, like in Ubuntu..

[Rajkumar]

Hi,

Here you go :

localhost rajkumar # lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 43136 0
snd_mixer_oss 20992 1 snd_pcm_oss
i915 35712 2
drm 73384 3 i915
snd_seq_dummy 9988 0
snd_seq_oss 35840 0
snd_seq_midi_event 13056 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50224 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 13324 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
ipv6 256388 20
bridge 49172 0
stp 9860 1 bridge
bnep 18816 2
rfcomm 39696 6
l2cap 27520 16 bnep,rfcomm
rtc_cmos 16032 0
sdhci_pci 14080 0
sdhci 21636 1 sdhci_pci
mmc_core 47388 1 sdhci
snd_hda_intel 318252 5
snd_pcm 67332 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
intel_agp 29124 1
snd_timer 24840 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
jmb38x_ms 16260 0
memstick 14876 1 jmb38x_ms
snd 49700 16 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 14472 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
r8169 31620 0
pcspkr 9984 0
btusb 17176 2
bluetooth 55396 8 bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,btusb
i2c_i801 15632 0
i2c_core 25492 1 i2c_i801
video 21136 0
output 10112 1 video
uvcvideo 59528 0
compat_ioctl32 9088 1 uvcvideo
videodev 39936 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 21124 2 uvcvideo,videodev
battery 16260 0
ac 11396 0
joydev 16704 0
tg3 127748 0
libphy 27008 1 tg3
e1000 127684 0
dm_bbr 19104 0
sl811_hcd 18944 0
ohci_hcd 32784 0
ssb 50564 1 ohci_hcd
uhci_hcd 30096 0
ehci_hcd 42252 0
sx8 22796 0
scsi_wait_scan 9344 0
pata_pcmcia 19072 0
pcmcia 42796 2 ssb,pata_pcmcia
ixj 430788 0
phonedev 12032 1 ixj
b1 30720 0
kernelcapi 40148 1 b1

[pepe999]

I can't see ndiswrapper in modules...
You have to add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules..

[Rajkumar]

Joeoden wrote : First thing to do is plug in a network cable (providing you can), either from router to computer or modem to computer then in a terminal type
su
Password: (type your password)

equo update

emerge --sync && layman -S

equo conf update

Then install wicd
http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php? ... _with_WICD

Did the above again, looks like last time around the equo update did not happen. This time however it went on and on and on. Not that I know what each command does (if somebody can explain that would be good).

well anyway wicd now reports an error and I lost my wired LAN as well in the process. The error is wicd could not find dbus.

So guys I do not understand what is going on. If somebody can help me recover from this that would be great.

1. Should I now remove wicd ? how do I do that? when I rmmod it says wicd is not in this directory. wicd launches at start up anyway.
2. If I have wicd then should I still go for installing the broadcom driver? at root the system says driver (bcmwl5 driver is installed) but there is no hardware detected.

I would be grateful if you could help me out.

Also if I have to install ndswrapper again then let me know the process and commands. I went through a video class for this yet looks like the module does not exit.

I really do not know how the bcmwl5 driver got in then?

[joeoden]

Lets get you going first before we start pointing you to links in the wiki for your questions

when I rmmod it says wicd is not in this directory.

Do not rmmod anything

(bcmwl5 driver is installed) but there is no hardware detected

Your card is listed in lspci
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

To get Network Manager working again in a terminal as root type
rc-update del wicd
rc-update add NetworkManager
exit
exit

Plug in your wired network cable
Restart computer

When computer starts wicd will want root password, just ignore or cancel, because Network Manager should be loaded automatically and you should be connected to the internet via your wired network cable

Open a terminal as root and type
emerge wicd

When it has finished installing wicd-1.6.2 a message telling you config files need updating
So still in the same terminal type
equo conf update

Another message will be displayed asking you a question just type in the same terminal
-5

When that has finished, type in the same terminal
rc-update add wicd
rc-update del NetworkManager
exit
exit

Restart computer
Remove your wired network cable

Let us know how you go
Joe

Note
If all works OK, Sulfur will want to install wicd-1.6 which looks like isn't working on your system (same with mine) so when you are doing updates with equo or sulfur do not select wicd-1.6 as it will replace wicd-1.6.2 with wicd-1.6 and then your wireless won't work again

If using wicd-1.6.2 you might have to Enable SSID Broadcast in your router not the computer software.
Other settings in my router are (may help you to fault find)
Enable Wireless Security,
Wireless MAC Address Filtering: Enabled,
Filtering Rules: Deny the stations not specified by any enabled entries in the list to access
DHCP Settings, DHCP Server: Enable
Address Reservation each computer on this page has status enabled and is permanent

I can't see ndiswrapper in modules...

Not in my systems and is working without ndiswrapper in modules

[Rajkumar]

Open a terminal as root and type
emerge wicd

When I do this I get :

>>> Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/wicd-1.6.2
* This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other
* packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq
* owners / <filename>` to identify the installed package that owns a
* file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do
* NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at
* least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s).
* If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from
* then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough
* information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file
* a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which
* two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file
* a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message.
*
* package net-misc/wicd-1.6.2 NOT merged
*
* Detected file collision(s):
*
* /usr/share/locale/fr_CA/LC_MESSAGES/wicd.mo
* /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/wicd.mo
* /usr/share/doc/wicd-1.6.2/README.bz2
* /usr/share/doc/wicd-1.6.2/CHANGES.bz2
* /usr/share/doc/wicd-1.6.2/NEWS.bz2
* /usr/share/doc/wicd-1.6.2/AUTHORS.bz2
* /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Wicd-1.6.2-py2.5.egg-info
*
* Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
*
* Press Ctrl-C to Stop
*
* None of the installed packages claim the file(s).
*
* Package 'net-misc/wicd-1.6.2' NOT merged due to file collisions. If
* necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the
* above message.

>>> Failed to install net-misc/wicd-1.6.2, Log file:

>>> '/var/lib/entropy/logs/net-misc:wicd-1.6.2:20090714-114013.log'

[joeoden]

No one would believe me if I said I haven't had file collisions yet, but the truth is I haven't because I usally install programs with equo or and sulfur, I used emerge wicd because wicd-1.6.2 is not in equo yet

I will have to do some reading about file collisions, unless someone who has experience with file collisions could please jump in with some help thanks

But for now try downgrading to wicd-1.5.9-r1 in a terminal as root type
equo conf update
emerge --sync
emerge -u =net-misc/wicd-1.5.9-r1
equo conf update
rc-update add wicd
rc-update del NetworkManager
exit
exit

Restart computer
Remove your wired network cable

The command emerge --sync will not take as long as it did the first time
Don't forget to answer with -5 if you have config files that need updating

Lets hope you don't have problems this time
Joe