Solution to Broadcom 43xx Card Problem (12.04 - Precise Pangolin)

[ohmboys]

i have tried everything to work my b43-fwcutter i have had HP before worked fine on my laptop i downloaded b43 driver .. went to /usr/share/b43-fwcutter/ & i install the firmware.sh i remember that was the way i did it before .. after installation i run modprobe -r b43 ssb wl .. modprobe b43 .. iwlist scan .. i get nothing but eth1 which i already have a driver on my laptop dell latitude d600 .. ipw2200 .. i need wlan0 driver so i can get mon0 or something or atheros .. i just dont remember the steps i donno if i have to move b43-fwcutter folder to somewhere else .. i've been trying for past 10 days its just not working for me i read some of your posts it seems like u know what you are saying .. i will post my lsmod .. & everything you need please help me here .. i think i also downloaded after all updates upgrades bcmwl-kernel-source i donno what file it went to cant find it cant find the code to find the version .. i just need some help to have a b43 driver to work .. here is my lsmod

root@ubuntu:/home/dflpride# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
b44                    25574  0 
ssb                    38902  1 b44
mii                     4381  1 b44
wl                   1959598  0 
binfmt_misc             6587  1 
rfcomm                 33421  4 
sco                     7885  2 
bridge                 45614  0 
stp                     1655  1 bridge
bnep                    9436  2 
l2cap                  30624  16 rfcomm,bnep
snd_intel8x0           25588  2 
snd_ac97_codec        100646  1 snd_intel8x0
fbcon                  35102  71 
tileblit                2031  1 fbcon
ac97_bus                1002  1 snd_ac97_codec
font                    7557  1 fbcon
bitblit                 4707  1 fbcon
snd_pcm_oss            35308  0 
softcursor              1189  1 bitblit
snd_mixer_oss          13746  1 snd_pcm_oss
vga16fb                11385  0 
snd_pcm                70694  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
vgastate                8961  1 vga16fb
snd_seq_dummy           1338  0 
snd_seq_oss            26722  0 
snd_seq_midi            4557  0 
radeon                676897  3 
pcmcia                 30784  0 
snd_rawmidi            19056  1 snd_seq_midi
ttm                    49943  1 radeon
snd_seq_midi_event      6003  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                47263  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
drm_kms_helper         29329  1 radeon
snd_timer              19098  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
drm                   162409  5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
snd_seq_device          5700  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
joydev                  8740  0 
yenta_socket           20408  4 
i2c_algo_bit            5028  1 radeon
ipw2200               135216  0 
rsrc_nonstatic         10015  1 yenta_socket
snd                     54180  14  snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
libipw                 39896  1 ipw2200
pcmcia_core            32964  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
ppdev                   5259  0 
video                  17375  0 
soundcore               6620  1 snd
dell_wmi                1793  0 
parport_pc             25962  1 
snd_page_alloc          7076  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
intel_agp              24375  1 
output                  1871  1 video
lib80211                5046  3 wl,ipw2200,libipw
psmouse                63245  0 
btusb                  10957  2 
agpgart                31724  3 ttm,drm,intel_agp
dcdbas                  5422  0 
lp                      7028  0 
shpchp                 28820  0 
bluetooth              49892  9 rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
serio_raw               3978  0 
parport                32635  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
tg3                   109324  0 

root@ubuntu:/home/dflpride# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:03.0  Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2]  Network Connection (rev 05) ..

i donno what more information you need just ask me to run the code & i will send it to you but i think im following every step possible on the internet but its kind of not working for me i went to system / admin / hardware drivers .. all of them are emply im using UBUNTU 10.__ THE LATEST ONE .. HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON ..

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

[PatchesTheCaveman]

Hi ohmboys!

You have an Intel wireless card. The b43 driver is for Broadcom cards. It will not work on your machine.

It sounds like you're trying to enable monitoring mode on your wireless card (most likely for aircrack-ng). You do not need a special driver to do this. The default Ubuntu driver for your Intel wireless card can be used for that purpose.

For assistance in getting your card in monitoring mode and using aircrack-ng, I suggest you inquire on their forum:
http://forum.aircrack-ng.org/

They will have a lot more people who are familar with that software and the necessary steps to get monitoring mode working properly.

Good luck!

[Felliph3]

My HP dv9000 has the wifi working in 10.10. HOWEVER, every time I boot, come back from a suspend, log in, etc the wifi takes 1 minute to start to connect!

I have tried to find a solution for weeks and nothing. The network manager wont scan for networks for about a minute b4 it start to reconnect. Someone has to know the answer, PLEASE help! =(

[andrek]

This is driving me batshit insane. It hasn't occurred to me before. None of these solutions worked for me and I JUST want to install the STA drivers. I also tried installing natty packages (bcmwl-kernel-source) and the one from broadcom site. NOTHING WORKS. Any ideas, what log should I look for?

Installing Natty alpha fixes the issue. Installing the STA driver from Additional Drivers JUST WORKS.

[bevangg]

I have an HP mini 110c with a broadcom 3412 wireless card running Maverick. The card picks up networks but will not connect, constantly tries to acquire a network address.This problem started when I turned off the wifi with the switch on the netbook. I have tried almost everything suggested on the forums and nothing works.

[PatchesTheCaveman]

Hi bevangg. Happy New Year!

To figure out what's going on, we need to collect some diagnostic information. Go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal on your top panel. In the black box that appears, type each of the following commands, then press Enter:

lspci -vnn
lshw -C network
ifconfig -a
uname -r
sudo iwconfig

Once you've done that, copy and paste what appears in a reply to this thread. We'll take a look at it and see what we can do.

[bevangg]

Hi Patches from Arizona love the handle and many thanks for your timely reply. I have tried to attach text file with the outputs of all the commands that you listed.For some reason the server refused to accept this file in any format so I have had to resort to copy and pasting the whole shooting match in this post.
PS The plot thickens... The netbook connected immediately to the wlan in the Pub. I have noticed that it seems to think it is trying to connect to the Pub network wherever it is. This must be a clue to what is going on here!
I hope this makes sense to somebody.
bevan@Mini-110c-1000:~$ lspci -vnn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27ac] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fe180000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at dc80 [size=8]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fe140000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at fe080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
Memory at fe138000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff
Memory behind bridge: fe200000-fe2fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 000000003f800000-000000003f9fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fe300000-fe3fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 000000003fa00000-000000003fbfffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 [8086:27d4] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: fe400000-febfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 000000003fc00000-000000003fdfffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at d880 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at d480 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at fe137c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=32
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: leds-ss4200, iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 02) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at d400 [size=8]
I/O ports at d080 [size=4]
I/O ports at d000 [size=8]
I/O ports at cc80 [size=4]
I/O ports at cc00 [size=16]
Memory at fe137800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1508]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fe2fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8132 Fast Ethernet [1969:1062] (rev c0)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
Memory at fe3c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
I/O ports at ec80 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: atl1c
Kernel modules: atl1c

03:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Broadcom Corporation BCM70012 Video Decoder [Crystal HD] [14e4:1612] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:2612]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
Memory at febf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at fe400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: Broadcom 70012 Decoder
Kernel modules: crystalhd

bevan@Mini-110c-1000:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:fe2fc000-fe2fffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8132 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: 00:25:b3:65:a5:39
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.0.2-NAPI firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.14 latency=0 multicast=yes
resources: irq:45 memory:fe3c0000-fe3fffff ioport:ec80(size=128)
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:26:5e:08:95:bf
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=2.6.35-24-generic firmware=N/A multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
bevan@Mini-110c-1000:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:b3:65:a5:39
inet addr:192.168.0.14 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::225:b3ff:fe65:a539/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:844 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:566765 (566.7 KB) TX bytes:66783 (66.7 KB)
Interrupt:45

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2884 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2884 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:225448 (225.4 KB) TX bytes:225448 (225.4 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:5e:08:95:bf
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:25284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:27853706 (27.8 MB) TX bytes:2743566 (2.7 MB)

bevan@Mini-110c-1000:~$ uname -r
2.6.35-24-generic
bevan@Mini-110c-1000:~$ sudo iwconfig
[sudo] password for bevan:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff

bevan@Mini-110c-1000:~$
Thanks to all for bothering to look at this and trying to help.
I dont know why these yellow faces have appeared in the text above.

BBoy

[zippi07]

I have a strange symptome on my BCM4312.

My connection speed drops from 17Mbps to 5Mbps when I pull the cord of my laptop and run it on battery (tested with speedtest). It also seems to have some trouble connecting to websites. But it does so eventually, but slowly.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1750 with BCM4312

Before ubuntu 10.10 my wirelesscard worked fine. That is, I ran it with the B43-driver together with ndiswrapper. After installing Ubuntu 10.10 my speed dropped to about 5Mbps. A wired connection gives me about 25Mbps.
I thought I fixed it by completely reinstalling the system and trying the STA driver instead. It worked right away. No need of nsdiswrapper.

But now I lose my speed when I go on battery. And Im not really satisfied with 17Mbps.

Any thoughts on this??


*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 70:1a:04:7f:bc:86
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.60.48.36 ip=94.224.251.191 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:17 memory:f6cfc000-f6cfffff

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:207 Noise level:170
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0

uname -mr
2.6.35-22-generic x86_64

[bkratz]

@zippi07--

The version of the STA driver you have is about 5 versions old. The repository has not been updated, see the readme on this page for more information.

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

It may not make a difference for your particular problems, but it might?

[zippi07]

@zippi07--

The version of the STA driver you have is about 5 versions old. The repository has not been updated, see the readme on this page for more information.

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

It may not make a difference for your particular problems, but it might?

I tried it: compiled a new STA driver.

But the endresult is the same:
17Mbps on netpower; 5Mbps on battery

Thanks for the tip. But no luck.