Another Broadcom Wireless not working

Jim binarynut at comcast.net
Fri Sep 13 20:57:30 UTC 2013


Fedora 18 /KDE

Had Wireless working after Install but did update and it quit working.

I have kmod-wl kernel-3.6.10-4, working in kernel-3.6.10-4.

The driver in lspci for wireless is b43-pci-bridge, but lsmod shows a 
b43legacy being loaded.
-------------------                                -------------


[tom at localhost ~]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

em1       no wireless extensions.




Ethernet eth0 Is Working
-------------

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
         Subsystem: Dell Device 8126
         Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
         Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium 
 >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
         Latency: 64 (16000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
         Region 0: Memory at faff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) 
[disabled] [size=64K]
         Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
         Capabilities: <access denied>
         Kernel driver in use: tg3



Wireless Card  Not Working

-------------

02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g 
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
         Subsystem: Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card
         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
         Latency: 32
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
         Region 0: Memory at fafee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
         Capabilities: <access denied>
         Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge




  $ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ipt_MASQUERADE         12761  1
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns    12586  0
nf_conntrack_broadcast    12488  1 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns
ip6table_mangle        12621  1
be2iscsi               76220  0
ip6t_REJECT            12827  2
iscsi_boot_sysfs       15122  1 be2iscsi
bnx2i                  49543  0
nf_conntrack_ipv6      14078  26
cnic                   57574  1 bnx2i
nf_defrag_ipv6         13709  1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
uio                    14413  1 cnic
cxgb4i                 32075  0
cxgb4                  97513  1 cxgb4i
cxgb3i                 28034  0
iptable_nat            13139  1
nf_nat                 24501  2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
cxgb3                 130967  1 cxgb3i
iptable_mangle         12616  1
mdio                   13244  1 cxgb3
nf_conntrack_ipv4      14458  25 nf_nat,iptable_nat
libcxgbi               54562  2 cxgb3i,cxgb4i
ib_iser                32692  0
nf_defrag_ipv4         12602  1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
xt_conntrack           12665  48
rdma_cm                37085  1 ib_iser
nf_conntrack           72003  8 
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns,ipt_MASQUERADE,nf_nat,xt_conntrack,nf_conntrack_broadcast,iptable_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6
ebtable_filter         12716  0
ib_addr                13513  1 rdma_cm
ebtables               21316  1 ebtable_filter
iw_cm                  13753  1 rdma_cm
bnep                   18864  2
ib_cm                  36713  1 rdma_cm
bluetooth             275642  7 bnep
ip6table_filter        12712  1
ip6_tables             17745  2 ip6table_filter,ip6table_mangle
ib_sa                  23966  2 rdma_cm,ib_cm
ib_mad                 37175  2 ib_cm,ib_sa
ib_core                61976  6 rdma_cm,ib_cm,ib_sa,iw_cm,ib_mad,ib_iser
iscsi_tcp              18016 0
libiscsi_tcp           19468  4 cxgb3i,cxgb4i,iscsi_tcp,libcxgbi
libiscsi               44825  8 
libiscsi_tcp,bnx2i,cxgb3i,cxgb4i,be2iscsi,iscsi_tcp,ib_iser,libcxgbi
scsi_transport_iscsi    46616  8 
bnx2i,be2iscsi,iscsi_tcp,ib_iser,libcxgbi,libiscsi
snd_intel8x0m          18424  0
snd_intel8x0           33135  2
snd_ac97_codec        104813  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
ac97_bus               12631  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq                54700  0
snd_seq_device         13825  1 snd_seq
snd_pcm                81512  3 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
b43legacy             103935  0
snd_page_alloc         13710  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm,snd_intel8x0m
mac80211              471137  1 b43legacy
snd_timer              23743  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd                    63247  11 
snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0m
ppdev                  17364  0
iTCO_wdt               13257  0
soundcore              14124  1 snd
cfg80211              170721  2 mac80211,b43legacy
parport_pc             27404  0
dell_laptop            17162  0
iTCO_vendor_support    13244  1 iTCO_wdt
dcdbas                 14365  1 dell_laptop
rfkill                 20452  3 cfg80211,bluetooth
lpc_ich                16926  0
microcode              18725  0
parport                39144  2 ppdev,parport_pc
joydev                 17162  0
uinput                 17305  0
radeon                820581  2
i2c_algo_bit           13066  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper         43550  1 radeon
ttm                    62706  1 radeon
ssb                    55249  1 b43legacy
drm                   215930  4 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
mmc_core               97635  1 ssb
yenta_socket           40363  0
tg3                   138796  0
i2c_core               28450  4 drm,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,radeon
video                  18505  0
sunrpc                215746  1








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