Is my broadcom 4306 wireless card detected? from this settings.

I am not sure if my wireless card is detected, although it seems like it is from these settings: of ifconfig -a

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rank # ifconfig -a eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1 inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::20d:56ff:fe1f:7b67 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether 00:0d:56:1f:7b:67 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 4 bytes 1216 (1.1 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 18 bytes 1636 (1.5 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436 metric 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host> loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 sit0: flags=128<NOARP> mtu 1480 metric 1 sit txqueuelen 0 (IPv6-in-IPv4) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 wlan0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1 ether 00:11:50:0c:0b:e4 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 localhost frank #

Also iwconfig

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iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 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 Encryption key:off Power Management:on

Also how do I get my Access point associated? But can I rest assured my wireless card does not need further configuration? I have wpa encryption and a netgear wireless router. My ethernet wired eth0 is working fine.

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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 Encryption key:off Power Management:on

This is your wireless card but you may need firmware for it to work properly. Post the output of

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dmesg | grep -i firmware

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ifconfig wlan0 up

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iwlist wlan0 scan

Thanks Mike first, what you ask me to try.

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dmesg | grep -i firmware [ 11.790323] Broadcom 43xx-legacy driver loaded [ Features: PLID, Firmware-ID: FW10 ] [ 14.748755] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] [ 56.868170] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43legacy/ucode4.fw" not found or load failed. [ 56.868175] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 3). [ 57.876884] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43legacy/ucode4.fw" not found or load failed. [ 57.876890] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 3). [ 84.707891] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43legacy/ucode4.fw" not found or load failed. [ 84.707897] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 3). [ 85.045908] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43legacy/ucode4.fw" not found or load failed. [ 85.045913] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 3). [ 87.194636] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43legacy/ucode4.fw" not found or load failed. [ 87.194641] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 3). [ 7173.771064] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43legacy/ucode4.fw" not found or load failed. [ 7173.771070] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 3). localhost frank #

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ifconfig wlan0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

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iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

I first tried emerging fw-cutter firmware. that seemed to put :

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frank # cd /lib/firmware localhost firmware # ls b43 localhost firmware #

I assumed that that had installed the correct firmware. I still show b43 in /lib/firmware. However, the system seems to prefer, or pull, b43legacy.

Here is what else I have tried:

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lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 01:08.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 02) I have kernel-3.0.6 by the way Gentoo Gentoo systems supply a pre-compiled binary for b43-fwcutter. You need to: Toggle line numbers 1 emerge b43-fwcutter and then follow the instructions below to download the Broadcom driver. The line that invokes b43-fwcutter will need to be changed to execute the program emerged above. If you are using the b43legacy driver: After installing b43-fwcutter, download version 3.130.20.0 of Broadcom's proprietary driver and extract the firmware from it: Toggle line numbers 1 export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware" 2 wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o 3 sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o Note that you must adjust the FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR path to your distribution. The standard place where firmware is installed to is /lib/firmware. However some distributions put firmware in a different place. b43legacy 3.130.20.0 295.14 b43-fwcutter-012 http://gpo.zugaina.org/net-wireless/b43-fwcutter/euscan

I used fw-cutter version 15, and could not cut the firmware. I still am not sure , though i listed a website how to configure/download fw-cutter-012. Which is what b43legacy requires. I also was not sure if that was a one as in 1 or an L as in l in apsta. I downloaded first to /home/frank/download, than also with wget. So I ended up with one apsta ending in 0.0 and another one ending in apsta 0.0.1. I may have a lot of broken/corrupt files, don/t know. I am not sure if this are the correct steps for my my kernel. 3.0.6.

Also do I use the sudo command, and I am doing all this from root by the way.

Here is my most recent try:

firmware # sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
This file is recognised as:
filename : wl_apsta.o
version : 295.14
MD5 : e08665c5c5b66beb9c3b2dd54aa80cb3
Extracting b43legacy/ucode2.fw
Extracting b43legacy/ucode4.fw
Extracting b43legacy/ucode5.fw
Extracting b43legacy/ucode11.fw
Extracting b43legacy/pcm4.fw
Extracting b43legacy/pcm5.fw
Extracting b43legacy/a0g0bsinitvals2.fw
Extracting b43legacy/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43legacy/a0g0initvals5.fw
Extracting b43legacy/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43legacy/a0g0initvals2.fw
Extracting b43legacy/a0g1initvals5.fw
Extracting b43legacy/b0g0bsinitvals2.fw
Extracting b43legacy/b0g0initvals5.fw
Extracting b43legacy/b0g0initvals2.fw
Extracting b43legacy/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw

I think that solved that. I probably need more config help. I was not making a space between INSTALL_DIR and wl_apsta. Here is my most recent.iwlist wlan0 scan:

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iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX Channel:11 Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11) Quality=41/70 Signal level=-69 dBm Encryption key:on ESSID:"want to keep secret" Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s Bit Rates:9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Mode:Master Extra:tsf=0000001092076181 Extra: Last beacon: 157ms ago IE: Unknown: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx IE: Unknown: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx IE: Unknown: 03010B IE: Unknown: 2A0100 IE: Unknown: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK IE: Unknown: DD0900037F0101000EFF7F IE: Unknown: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx IE: Unknown: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I excluded variables that may need to be kept confidential.

Solved broadcom bcm 4306 nic on optiplex gx 270 kernel 3.0.6

After few days of web searches, I finally got my broadcom 4306 wireless card running. I get a few errors with ethernet cable disconnected, but it seems to be running ok after boot.

I did not follow, the step as recommended in this website, though still recommend reading. The step to emerge firmware, did not seem to help.

Broadcom 43xx - Gentoo Linux Wiki

Instead , I followed the steps in this website, and that did work.

b43 - Linux Wireless

I was having problems configuring wpa_supplicant, my connection was flaky turning on and off. this Arch wiki, helped a lot for that problem. It auto generated a wpa supplicant conf that wifie up and running. It offered some other steps, that I followed. Some did not work with my particular gentoo system., but in the end. my connection remains connected after an hour.

here is my working wpa_conf that is working, with my Netgear Router. Generated by following steps in Arch wiki. I thought there might be a conflict with setting GROUP=wheel and GROUP=0 but so far there hasn't.

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ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=0 network={ ssid="myssiduseyours" psk="mypassphraseuseyourgoeshere" }

I read so many posts in various distros, it would be hard to thank every one. But special thanks, to every one, here, for your help.