Broadcom Wireless for 8.10

[1caras]

Seems like I had to disable then re-enable the hardwaredriver for broadcom.
(and reboot)
I upgraded from 8.04
wireless works like a charm now.

lspci -nnm:
blah blah
03:00.0 "Network controller [0280]" "Broadcom Corporation [14e4]" "BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [4318]" -r02 "Linksys [1737]" "Device [0049]"
blah blah

I basically followed all the instructions that Brandon88 followed up until this point, where I just got too frustrated and did a reboot.

Surprise surprise, wireless started working again.

I've done so much meddling with my system I can't even get the order straight, but I'll briefly try to recap. I started with a fresh 8.10 AMD64 Xubuntu install on a Comapq Presario v2000 with an AMD Turion 64. Here's what lshw -C network gives me:

*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:16:36:23:18:cf
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 latency=64 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:05:02.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64 module=ssb

I started with this thread first, since it worked on my Wubi'd 8.04 Ubuntu. It didn't work this time, however, so I went here and went through the process here. Then I came across this thread and followed the instructions everyone (you've been a tremendous help, by the way. Thanks) posted for Brandon88tube, since he has the same wireless chip I do. This included enabling proprietary drivers. When I got to atomizer's post, I restarted for the hell of it and wireless suddenly started working.

Hopefully someone can make more sense of it than I can. But as far as I know, it might just have been a lucky combination of steps specific to my laptop.

Again, thanks to the entire community. It takes work, but it DOES work.

[v4nilla]

For those with the 4306 or 4318 cards, can you post the lspci -nnm for your card? It will help provide the chipset, revision, and subvendor information for your card. From what I have seen in Hardy, it has been hit and miss for those two cards and it looks like Intrepid has gotten a little better, but there is not enough results out there yet.

I have the 4318 here are the results from lspci -nnm. I am typing this out from my other computer since I can't get to the internet from the desktop.

"Network Controller [0280]" "Broadcom Corporation [14e4]" "BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g wireless LAN Controller [4318]" -r02 Belkin [1799] "Device [7001]"

[Bondy_uk]

Ok I will be the first to admit I may be way off base here, so apologies if this is a stupid reply.

Im using a Belkin card with the broadcom chipset and after a lot of searching, I found that all I had to do was open up Synaptic Package Manager (enter password) search for "bcm43xx-fwcutter" and install.

It extracts your chipset info, looks on the Internet for a compatible windows driver and installs, running it via ndiswrapper. After doing that I never had any trouble.

Again sorry if im way off here, just thought it might be of help

[Nachoo]

Hi there,

I'm about going crazy. I have a Dell 1420 with wireless card 1395, i just did a fresh install of 8.10, and everything is great but I can't get any webpages or email. I do connect to a wireless or wired connection but it just won't go. I thought it could be a drivers thing and installed ndiswrapper and tried a bunch of things all I got was to make the network wireless connection unstable and still no success.

Please can someone help? In case it helps here go the outputs of lspci and lshw -C network. Really really appreciatte your help.

nacho@nach:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

nacho@nach:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 01
       serial: 00:22:68:d3:11:2c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl latency=0 module=wl multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:22:19:ce:08:c8
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.94 ip=192.168.1.35 latency=0 module=tg3 multicast=yes
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: pan0
       serial: 82:0c:ea:c2:a7:96
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes

[Ayuthia]

Hi there,

I'm about going crazy. I have a Dell 1420 with wireless card 1395, i just did a fresh install of 8.10, and everything is great but I can't get any webpages or email. I do connect to a wireless or wired connection but it just won't go. I thought it could be a drivers thing and installed ndiswrapper and tried a bunch of things all I got was to make the network wireless connection unstable and still no success.

Please can someone help? In case it helps here go the outputs of lspci and lshw -C network. Really really appreciatte your help.

nacho@nach:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

nacho@nach:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 01
       serial: 00:22:68:d3:11:2c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl latency=0 module=wl multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:22:19:ce:08:c8
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.94 ip=192.168.1.35 latency=0 module=tg3 multicast=yes
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: pan0
       serial: 82:0c:ea:c2:a7:96
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes

You might try the following first:

sudo modprobe -r b43 b44 ssb ndiswrapper wl
sudo modprobe wl
sudo ifconfig eth1 up
sudo iwlist scan

[Nachoo]

Hey, hi! Thanks for helping!! Really really appreciate it!

nacho@nach:~$ sudo modprobe -r b43 b44 ssb ndiswrapper wl
[sudo] password for nacho: 
nacho@nach:~$ sudo modprobe wl
nacho@nach:~$ sudo ifconfig eth1 up
nacho@nach:~$ sudo iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:0A:E9:03:46:D8
                    ESSID:"Mary"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
                    Quality:5/5  Signal level:-41 dBm  Noise level:-90 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:01:38:48:2B:AE
                    ESSID:"default"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality:2/5  Signal level:-76 dBm  Noise level:-18 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
          Cell 03 - Address: 00:16:38:CC:8F:5C
                    ESSID:"WLAN_BA"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
                    Quality:1/5  Signal level:-81 dBm  Noise level:-90 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
          Cell 04 - Address: 00:16:38:EA:08:AB
                    ESSID:"WLAN_2C"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
                    Quality:1/5  Signal level:-84 dBm  Noise level:-90 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
          Cell 05 - Address: 00:16:38:EA:46:34
                    ESSID:"WLAN_B8"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
                    Quality:1/5  Signal level:-88 dBm  Noise level:-90 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
          Cell 06 - Address: 00:16:38:C4:BA:1F
                    ESSID:"Jazztel Wireless"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality:1/5  Signal level:-80 dBm  Noise level:-16 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
          Cell 07 - Address: 00:E0:98:50:A0:78
                    ESSID:"Untitled"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality:1/5  Signal level:-81 dBm  Noise level:-90 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s

Still not working. From the beginning I could do the scan and get the networks around. It just would not let me surf or get email, I could ping webpages, though. Trying to fix this I installed (downloading it with a different computer) ndiswrapper and a few different drivers.

I have seen an interesting post that may help me but it requires having an internet connection to do apt-get and download some other stuff, so couldn't follow it. I have access to internet through my wife's computer. The thread I talk about is:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=859580

But it is also true that I can't surf when connected wired, so... maybe my problem is not a driver problem, but maybe it is now after all I did to ubuntu!!

[SJ_tu]

Heads up here, I've got a broadcom 4318 as well. All I had to do to get it to work was run synaptic, update its sources, install b43-fwcutter. have it download the firmware and reboot.

Hope that saves you some time.

I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 3days back (new user from XP) and the way you said works great for my BMC4306 card.
Thanks
SJ

[likebikes]

Hi
Here's the thing. Loaded 8.10 onto my box and it found my broadcom 4306, brought up harware drivers, downloaded firmware and bingo connected to my wireless network via network manager. However, i now want to turn this box into a family server via wireless( i know wireless server not a good idea) i load 8.10 server edition and get samba going via lan. I then do sudo apt-get install bcm-fwcutter and it installs fine and picks up my 4306 as in desktop edition however i am now stuck. there appears to be no wpa_supplicant.conf how do i get a wireless connection? i have no Gui?

[RebeccaB37]

Hello all!

I'm a little new to this so bear with me...

I have a Broadcom 4310 wireless card (apparently not supported by the linux drivers) but I have successfully followed the instructions here http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php to get my wireless up and running.

However when I reboot the wireless card is deactivated and I need to run the final part of the readme instructions again

"Make available 802.11 TKIP crypto module:
modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip
Insert the Broadcom wl module:
insmod <path>/wl.ko"

Although my network settings are remembered...

I think that this means the module is not inserting properly? Can anyone shed any light as to how I can keep the module through the boot?

Thanks!
Rebecca

[unknown03]

Ayuthia,
thanks alot for that information. I followed your instructions and got my BCM4318 card working!

Again, thanks