i have been trying to figure this out for a few days now, i have read into a lot of options, i feel like i understand them for the most part, but i must be doing something wrong. although i did have it working for a little while.
a little info..
Code:
lspci
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)
Code:
sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0 module=ssb
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:19:b9:51:18:93
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=half latency=64 link=no module=ssb multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10MB/s
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:1a:92:4c:47:6b
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
Code:
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Code:
ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1a:92:4c:47:6b
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
but
Code:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
i had it up and connected last night using b43-fwcutter 11 and version 4.150.10.5 of Broadcom's proprietary driver. but i power on today, and nothing, just like it was before.
i have tried ndiswrapper, and got no results, i must be able to use b43, it has already worked for me, i don't know why it doesn't now.
my dmesg..
Code:
dmesg
[ 6687.558015] b43-phy0 ERROR: YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO NEW. Please downgrade your firmware.
[ 6687.558032] b43-phy0 ERROR: Use this firmware tarball: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
[ 6687.558041] b43-phy0 ERROR: Use this b43-fwcutter tarball: http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-009.tar.bz2
[ 6687.558050] b43-phy0 ERROR: Read, understand and _do_ what this message says, please.
[ 6701.610836] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input1020
[ 6701.626327] evdev: no more free evdev devices
[ 6701.626345] input: failed to attach handler evdev to device input1020, error: -23
[ 6701.723224] b43-phy0 ERROR: Microcode not responding
[ 6701.723241] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 4).
filling up my console input0-input1020
i have tried installing the firmware from broadcom-wl-4.80 like it tells me, to no avail. i got it working using 4.150, so i see no reason to downgrade..
if i remember correctly, while it was working my dmesg was still full of errors.
another broadcom victim crying for help.
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Originally Posted by grandpasguitars
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