BCM43225 wireless driver

[nedo99]

Hello,

i have installed ubuntu on my laptop acer aspire 5741g and my wireless driver was installed automatically. I installed following some tutorial on the web, but it only works till laptop is turned on. When i restart the laptop or shut it down, i have to go to additional drivers, remove sta wireless driver (who is already activated), activate it again and then it works again.

What is the problem? This is very irritating :S

[adamchronister8]

I think with that driver you have to set it up so that it loads up at bootup. Check your config file.

[nedo99]

Where can i do that?

[Nagarjuna]

In Ubuntu, you can configure it to load modules automatically by referrencing it in "/etc/modules".

Try adding the following module to it:

/etc/modules

b43

Once added, try rebooting the machine to see if it adds it's self automatically.

[nedo99]

i tried that, but still nothing :S

[Nagarjuna]

Ah, I forgot.. We'll probably need to blacklist the STA driver first..
Try appending the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:

blacklist wl

If that doesn't work, if you run the following commands in your terminal, do they get the card up and working?

modprobe -r b43 wl ssb
modprobe b43

If they do, you could try adding the above commands to /etc/init.d/local. The commands in this file are ran immediately after the boot process. You can read more about it https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RcLocalHowto.

After rebooting, and it still doesn't work. Try typing the following command and please post the results here:

lsmod

This should list all the loaded modules.

These cards are notoriously a pain in the ***

[nedo99]

i tried all that but still it is not working :S
Here is the lsmod result:
odule Size Used by
rfcomm 40755 0
sco 9954 0
bnep 11985 0
l2cap 42304 4 rfcomm,bnep
btusb 12929 0
bluetooth 59213 5 rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
binfmt_misc 7984 1
parport_pc 30086 0
ppdev 6804 0
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi 3079 1
joydev 11363 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 299533 1
snd_hda_intel 26019 2
snd_seq_midi 5932 0
snd_hda_codec 100919 3 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hd a_intel
radeon 906714 2
snd_hwdep 6660 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_rawmidi 22207 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_pcm 89104 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi_event 7291 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 57512 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 23850 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
ttm 68212 1 radeon
snd_seq_device 6912 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
uvcvideo 62379 0
videodev 49359 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 15519 2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 12646 1 videodev
drm_kms_helper 32836 1 radeon
snd 64117 13 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec, snd_hwdep,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,sn d_seq_device
drm 206161 4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
psmouse 62080 0
ndiswrapper 245044 0
i2c_algo_bit 6208 1 radeon
soundcore 1240 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 8588 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
serio_raw 4910 0
intel_ips 13252 0
intel_agp 32080 0
ssb 46169 0
mac80211 274768 0
cfg80211 165161 1 mac80211
compat 4984 1 cfg80211
led_class 3393 0
video 22176 0
output 2527 1 video
lp 10201 0
parport 37032 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
ahci 21857 0
tg3 135768 0
libahci 26167 3 ahci

still don't know what to do