Ubuntu 10.10 Device not ready (firmware missing)

**northd_tech** · April 23rd, 2011

Originally Posted by northd_tech

Are we certain of what flavor Broadcom wireless interface that Richard has?

Looking back at post #5, there is a line about a Broadcom 4318 (that I missed the first time).

Here is an ancient HOWTO for the 4318 (if that is really Richard's wireless interface, post #1978 looks like the most recent info):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...97102&page=198

According to the following page the Broadcom 4318 should show up as either:

"14e4:4318" or "14e4:4319" under lspci:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Also, here is an old thread that had an "offline" install for the "b43" Broadcom chipsets:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=763995

**RichardC400** · April 23rd, 2011

Originally Posted by josephmills

lets see a

Code:

lspci -vnn | grep 14e4

thanks

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
06:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
06:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)

**josephmills** · April 23rd, 2011

Originally Posted by RichardC400

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
06:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
06:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)

lets see a

Code:

dmesg | grep b43

a

Code:

rfkill list all

and a

Code:

lsmod | grep b43

**RichardC400** · April 23rd, 2011

Originally Posted by northd_tech

Are we certain of what flavor Broadcom wireless interface that Richard has? It might be good to take a look at the output of the following terminal commands:

Code:

lspci | grep work
sudo lshw -C network
lsmod
lsusb
ifconfig
iwconfig

Lately I've seen more firmware issues with the "older" Broadcoms (like the 4311 & 4312). It seems to me that the 10.xx versions of Ubuntu are having a difficult time with some of the "older" firmware recently- possibly the kernel has been "tweaked" in this vicinity.

Also, have you tried any of the "proprietary" hardware drivers like the Broadcom STA driver? The Broadcom 4321 in my HP laptop seems to prefer the "STA" driver, but it also worked fine with the "b43" proprietary hardware driver too from what I remember from long ago (somewhere around Ubuntu 8.10-9.04).

lspci | grep work
06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

sudo lshw -C network

Code:

*-network:0             
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@0000:06:01.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:16:d4:ac:1e:37
       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 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10MB/s
       resources: irq:21 memory:d0000000-d0001fff
  *-network:1
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:06:02.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
       resources: irq:22 memory:d0002000-d0003fff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:19:7d:43:c7:7b
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=2.6.35-22-generic firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1           3261  1 
vfat                    9201  1 
fat                    48240  1 vfat
usb_storage            40172  1 
binfmt_misc             6599  1 
parport_pc             26058  0 
ppdev                   5556  0 
lp                      7342  0 
dm_crypt               11385  0 
parport                31492  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
snd_hda_codec_realtek   217980  1 
snd_hda_intel          22107  2 
snd_hda_codec          87552  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               5040  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                71475  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi            4588  0 
snd_rawmidi            17783  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      6047  1 snd_seq_midi
arc4                    1165  2 
snd_seq                47174  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
b43                   168681  0 
snd_timer              19067  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
mac80211              231541  1 b43
snd_seq_device          5744  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
pcmcia                 35973  0 
gspca_vc032x           24745  0 
gspca_main             23644  1 gspca_vc032x
snd                    49006  13 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
joydev                  8735  0 
yenta_socket           21518  0 
videodev               43098  1 gspca_main
pcmcia_rsrc            10566  1 yenta_socket
v4l1_compat            13359  1 videodev
cfg80211              144470  2 b43,mac80211
pcmcia_core            14657  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc
soundcore                880  1 snd
psmouse                59033  0 
snd_page_alloc          7120  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
serio_raw               4022  0 
squashfs               25209  1 
aufs                  152358  4148 
nls_cp437               4931  2 
isofs                  30022  1 
dm_raid45              81721  0 
xor                    15136  1 dm_raid45
btrfs                 489451  0 
zlib_deflate           19266  1 btrfs
crc32c                  2531  1 
libcrc32c                887  1 btrfs
i915                  290938  3 
b44                    26253  0 
drm_kms_helper         30200  1 i915
drm                   168054  4 i915,drm_kms_helper
ssb                    39288  2 b43,b44
sdhci_pci               6339  0 
intel_agp              26360  2 i915
sdhci                  15890  1 sdhci_pci
led_class               2633  2 b43,sdhci
i2c_algo_bit            5168  1 i915
mii                     4425  1 b44
video                  18712  1 i915
output                  1883  1 video
agpgart                32011  2 drm,intel_agp
ramzswap                6586  0 
xvmalloc                4086  1 ramzswap
lzo_compress            1865  1 ramzswap

lsusb

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:0896 Logitech, Inc. OrbiCam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

ifconfig

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:d4:ac:1e:37  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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)
          Interrupt:21 

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:76 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:76 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:5792 (5.7 KB)  TX bytes:5792 (5.7 KB)

iwconfig

Code:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

**RichardC400** · April 23rd, 2011

Originally Posted by josephmills

lets see a

Code:

dmesg | grep b43

a

Code:

rfkill list all

and a

Code:

lsmod | grep b43

dmesg | grep b43

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dmesg | grep b43
[    4.781924] b43-pci-bridge 0000:06:02.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    4.781946] b43-pci-bridge 0000:06:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[    4.781959] b43-pci-bridge 0000:06:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   76.318631] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[   77.552496] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[   77.552518] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[   77.552542] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[   83.333245] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[   83.333252] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
[   83.333256] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.

rfkill list all

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

lsmod | grep b43

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod | grep b43
b43                   168681  0 
mac80211              231541  1 b43
cfg80211              144470  2 b43,mac80211
ssb                    39288  2 b43,b44
led_class               2633  2 b43,sdhci

here yas go, thanks for helping me out everyone really appreciating it.

**northd_tech** · April 23rd, 2011

Originally Posted by RichardC400

Module Size Used by
b43 168681 0
mac80211 231541 1 b43
cfg80211 144470 2 b43,mac80211

b44 26253 0
ssb 39288 2 b43,b44
mii 4425 1 b44

That looks to be a Broadcom 4318 "Airforce One" wireless unit. I haven't worked on one of those personally, but you might have a kernel module conflict with the b43, b44 and ssb modules all loaded as shown by that lsmod command...

You might need to blacklist one or more of those modules in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
, but I'm not sure what a working 4318 setup is supposed to look like.

**josephmills** · April 23rd, 2011

ok I have done this on my computer that I am typing on right now and it has the same card. So some thing happened in the extract part we need to re-do it. so

Code:

cd /lib/firmware

then

Code:

sudo -s

then

Code:

tar -xzf b43-all-fw.tar_.gz

then

Code:

exit

**RichardC400** · April 23rd, 2011

Originally Posted by josephmills

ok I have done this on my computer that I am typing on right now and it has the same card. So some thing happened in the extract part we need to re-do it. so

Code:

cd /lib/firmware

then

Code:

sudo -s

then

Code:

tar -xzf b43-all-fw.tar_.gz

then

Code:

exit

re did all that and it worked, i now have my wireless working.
Thank you so so much!

**josephmills** · April 23rd, 2011

please make sure that you mark it as solved and have a great time with your wifi

**RichardC400** · April 23rd, 2011

Originally Posted by josephmills

please make sure that you mark it as solved and have a great time with your wifi

...............how do i mark it as solved >.>

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