Wireless LAN Broadcom 4312 [Solved]

[Rajkumar]

Joeoden wrote :But for now try downgrading to wicd-1.5.9-r1 in a terminal as root type

Hi Joeoden,

Thanks. The installation went through however when I rebooted , there was an error at startup. It said : wicd demon did not start" and stopped at the terminal mode and did not launch Gnome. Did not know how to restart the computer from a terminal mode hence used on/off button to restart.

I am really sorry to bother you, but I am okay to resolving this and will keep at it till it gets resolved.

Cheers and thanks once again.

Best regards

[Rajkumar]

Hi there,

managed to rc again to get it back. did a rc-update del wicd and then rc-update add NetworkManager.

I get the error as shown in the screenshot in the attachment to this message.

regards

[ReemZ]

Did not know how to restart the computer from a terminal mode

As root, simply type reboot and hit enter. This will NOT ask your confirmation, but reboot immediately!

[Rajkumar]

Hi,
Have now installed Sabayon 4.2.

Joe, should I do the same steps again (as you had mentioned earlier)?

regards

[joeoden]

Joe, should I do the same steps again (as you had mentioned earlier)?

You state that you have Sabayon 4.2. installed
If you have done a clean install of Sabayon 4.2.Gnome then Network Manager should be working with no problems so there would be no need to install wicd (unless you want to)

But if wireless is not working and you have not made any other changes to the clean install then install wicd 1.5.9-r1 and if works (make a backup of your Sabayon partition) once you have created a backup image then try installing latest wicd

If you only updated from your old Sabayon 4.x to Sabayon 4.2 and wicd 1.5.9-r1 is working then I suggest you make a backup of your Sabayon partition before making any other changes, once you have created a backup image then try installing the latest wicd (if it does not work then you can restore backup image instead of doing another clean install)

Sabayon 4.2.Gnome wireless worked for me straight out of the box so there was no need to install wicd

I have seen other threads that some users can't get wireless working at all with 4.2.Gnome but we do not know what other changes these users have made to their systems before installing wicd

Sabayon 4.2.Kde wireless worked with Network Manager once after clean install, but did not work after first reboot so had to install wicd 1.6.2

Joe

[Rajkumar]

Hi Joeden,

The wireless card is still undetected. There is also no audio. (I did not have audio issues with Sabayon 4).

Also there are some updates to be done, I only get a list of updates to be done, when I click on installation nothing happens. Sulphur gets launched and all I get is a list. How do I update using this tool?

regards

[Rajkumar]

Just to let you know that I did a clean install of Sabayon 4.2 (did not do an upgrade).

[joeoden]

I did a clean install of Sabayon 4.2

Does wireless connection work with Network Manager?

The wireless card is still undetected

It should be listed if you do lspci you should see something like
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

Sulphur gets launched and all I get is a list. How do I update using this tool?

There is a button called "Add All" bottom left hand side of the Sulfur window, click add all or select each update individually then right click on a selected file and select upgrade, then click the button named Installation (left hand side tool bar), then click on the Commit Actions button, if any config files need to be updated the System files section will display the files if any just click on the merge all button in
The Package Manager Notification Window will tell you what files if any should be installed first
For more info on Entropy
http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=En:Entropy
For more info on Sulfur
http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=Sulfur

There is also no audio

When I installed Gnome on a spare partition I noticed that I had 2 volume controls and sound did not work because one of the volume controls was muted or and had the volume turned down, (I think it was the control on the right hand side of the top bar) just adjust the volume levels and then remove the one that is not working

Let us know how if you are still having problems with your wireless
Joe

[pepe999]

Rajkumar:
You wrote about installing bcm43xx with ndiswrapper, but I couldn't see "ndiswrapper" in your lsmod output!! You have to add "ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe or

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modprobe ndiswrapper

If you have a fresh install, do it again. Use that link for Broadcom drivers to get one..

[Rajkumar]

Thanks again Joe,

Rajkumar 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 Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
05:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
05:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
05:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller
Rajkumar rajkumar # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
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=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

Wireless does not work still. Audio does not work still. (tried both the speaker icons).

managed the sulfur update though, all the updates are done.

Cheers
Rajkumar