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fugitive90

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Registered: 2017-07-19

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Broadcom BCM43142 driver issue

Hello,

I can not get my integrated wireless card to work on my lap top.

I've installed b43 driver, but the card simply doesn't want to show up as a interface.

$ lspci -nn | grep -i net
07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 0c)

This is what confuses me, why lspci reports that  bcma-pci-bridge driver is in the use?

07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device 6655
	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: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
	Region 0: Memory at b7300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge

$ cat /etc/modules 

b43

$ dpkg -l | grep "43\|firmware"
ii  amd64-microcode                       2.20160316.1~deb8u1                  amd64        Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
ii  b43-fwcutter                          1:019-2                              amd64        utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
ii  firmware-atheros                      0.43                                 all          Binary firmware for Atheros wireless cards
ii  firmware-b43-installer                1:019-2                              all          firmware installer for the b43 driver
ii  firmware-intel-sound                  20161130-3~bpo8+1                    all          Binary firmware 

$ lsmod | grep b43
b43                   378288  0 
bcma                   37206  1 b43
ssb                    61008  1 b43
rng_core               12733  1 b43
pcmcia                 49012  2 b43,ssb
mac80211              482315  2 b43,ath9k_htc
cfg80211              413828  5 b43,ath,ath9k_common,mac80211,ath9k_htc
mmc_core              102374  6 b43,ssb,mmc_block,sdhci,sdhci_acpi,rtsx_pci_sdmmc

And either with ip l s or ifconfig the nic won't show up.

Let me know if you need more details.
Thanks!

PS: Sorry for posting here, if this can be moved under Hardware and System configuration, please move it, didn't saw topic previously

Last edited by fugitive90 (2017-07-20 23:05:56)

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Count_Cucaracha

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Registered: 2017-07-17

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Re: Broadcom BCM43142 driver issue

I don't own a broadcom43 anymore (yay!) and it's been too long but I would check debian bugs to see if anything similar is reported.

nathg

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Registered: 2017-04-20

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Re: Broadcom BCM43142 driver issue

Hi,

For my system with broadcam wireless and wicd-gtk installed last time I was in same situation. Then came to know about "rfkill" and installed the same. It is required probably for switch on/off wi-fi button in wicd gui. This may not be required if laptop has one. This may be set as depend for.

Cheers,

fugitive90

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Registered: 2017-07-19

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Re: Broadcom BCM43142 driver issue

Hey,

Thanks for replies.

I have rfkill installed already. Checked Debian bugs - nothing there. Also, the NIC worked fine on Deb 8,9 before. I believe it is some driver issue.

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fugitive90

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Registered: 2017-07-19

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Re: Broadcom BCM43142 driver issue

OK, seems I've solved it.

According to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use … ed_devices my chipset isn't supported.

Then using *wl* as an alternative did a trick.

For the reference :  https://wiki.debian.org/wl

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Racoton

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Registered: 2017-06-01

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Re: Broadcom BCM43142 driver issue

Hi,
What's response does gives you?

rfkill list

fugitive90

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Re: Broadcom BCM43142 driver issue

sudo rfkill list
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
3: phy1: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

#1 is Broadcom , #3 is atheros usb adapter.

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Racoton

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Re: Broadcom BCM43142 driver issue

... and?

iw phy0 info

fugitive90

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Re: Broadcom BCM43142 driver issue

Here is the output: http://termbin.com/tda9

But.. it is working - after loading wl driver.

Look :

s@devuan-lap:/lib/firmware$ ip l 
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 54:ab:3a:1a:5d:cc brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether c4:e9:84:08:c3:92 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 30:52:cb:cb:05:81 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

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