unable to get Broadcom 4312 loaded F 18

[Zoltan Hoppar]

Hi Ranjan,

Forgot to mention - be sure that you have not an subversion of 4312.

Use this to see it - > lspci -vnn -d 14e4

More here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices

Zoltan
2013/1/17 Zoltan Hoppar <hopparz at gmail.com>:
> Just solved the problem. You should load the b43 driver.
>
> modprobe b43
> then you'll see in dmesg that missing the right firmware.
>
> Install some more packages that is not included to F18 by default:
> rfkill, wget, b43-openfwwf, b43-tools. (Why has been wget excluded
> from package list, no clue....)
>
> Getting the driver - Do this (without numbers at beginning - simply
> execute one by one in terminal):
>
>    1 export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
>    2 wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
>    3 tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
>    4 sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR"
> broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
>
> If you have finished, then restart, and check that b43 driver is
> loaded or not. IF not, call 'modprobe b43', and check with dmesg that
> wifi link is active. IF yes, you should see as the network manager
> picks up the driver and you have to see as scanning for networks.
> I haven't checked yet that the driver loads after restart, but if not,
> you should check that b43 is not blacklisted.
>
> PS: Sometimes the module gets flipped, and that you can check with
> 'rfkill list' command - that maybe blocking /or not the hw module
> (because of the real hw button), there should be all 'none'. If few is
> blocked, then rfkill can solve up, but always you need restart as you
> solving up (*not* when you listing only).
>
> HTH. I'm writing this from F18  XFCE, and using happily my HP4515s -
> WLAN Broadcom 4312 PHY.
>
> Zoltan
>
> 2013/1/16 Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have tried to get wifi going on a Dell Latitude E5400 with the
>> Broadcom 4312 chipset.
>>
>> I did the following:
>>
>> Installed broadcom-wl from rpmfusion non-free. (This installed
>> broadcom-wl and the dependency kmod-wl.)
>>
>> Rebooted, but "nothing" happened. So, following this page
>>
>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=239922
>>
>> I tried:
>>
>> lsmod | sort
>>
>> as well as lsmod | grep wl
>>
>> Not loaded.
>>
>> So, I went further and tried the following (to see if I could manually
>> load the module):
>>
>> sudo modprobe wl
>> FATAL: Module wl not found.
>>
>> Any suggestions? Help?
>>
>> Many thanks again!
>> Ranjan
>>
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