wireless help

**cooltc2004** · 07-22-2010

Per the sticky, I'm posting all this information in hopes that someone can help me get my wireless working.

==LSPSI==

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

==LSUSB==

Code:

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0951:1603 Kingston Technology DataTraveler 1GB/2GB Pen Drive
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

==LSMOD==

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1           3249  1 
nls_cp437               4919  1 
vfat                    8901  1 
fat                    47767  1 vfat
aes_i586                7268  152 
aes_generic            26863  1 aes_i586
dm_crypt               11331  0 
binfmt_misc             6587  1 
snd_intel8x0           25588  2 
joydev                  8708  0 
snd_ac97_codec        100646  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                1002  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            35308  0 
snd_mixer_oss          13746  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                70662  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           1338  0 
arc4                    1153  2 
pcmcia                 33024  0 
snd_seq_oss            26726  0 
snd_seq_midi            4557  0 
snd_rawmidi            19056  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      6003  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                47263  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
b43                   157218  0 
snd_timer              19098  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          5700  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
mac80211              204922  1 b43
yenta_socket           20408  4 
cfg80211              126485  2 b43,mac80211
snd                    54148  14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
dell_wmi                1793  0 
rsrc_nonstatic         10015  1 yenta_socket
led_class               2864  1 b43
pcmcia_core            32964  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
ppdev                   5259  0 
dcdbas                  5422  0 
soundcore               6620  1 snd
psmouse                63245  0 
serio_raw               3978  0 
snd_page_alloc          7076  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
shpchp                 28820  0 
parport_pc             25962  1 
lp                      7028  0 
parport                32635  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
fbcon                  35102  71 
tileblit                2031  1 fbcon
font                    7557  1 fbcon
bitblit                 4707  1 fbcon
softcursor              1189  1 bitblit
vga16fb                11385  0 
vgastate                8961  1 vga16fb
radeon                674135  3 
ttm                    49943  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper         29297  1 radeon
drm                   162471  5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
intel_agp              24177  1 
video                  17375  0 
usb_storage            39425  1 
ssb                    37336  1 b43
i2c_algo_bit            5028  1 radeon
output                  1871  1 video
agpgart                31724  3 ttm,drm,intel_agp

==DMESG-FIRMWARE==

Code:

[    1.686247] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R200_cp.bin
[   12.892099] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[   12.932860] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43-open/ucode5.fw
[   12.941524] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to b43 - Linux Wireless and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
[   12.978058] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[   12.983965] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43-open/ucode5.fw
[   12.991443] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to b43 - Linux Wireless and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
[  460.364065] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[  460.366467] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43-open/ucode5.fw
[  460.375757] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to b43 - Linux Wireless and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.

==KERNEL VERSION==

Code:

2.6.32-21-generic

==IFCONFIG==

Code:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:960 (960.0 B)  TX bytes:960 (960.0 B)

==IWCONFIG==

Code:

lo        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
          Power Management:off

Thank you for any and all help. Sometimes it will register the wireless card at the top, but wont join anything.

**nujinini** · 07-22-2010

May I please know what distro your using?

**cooltc2004** · 07-22-2010

Darn, I knew I forgot something. I'm using ubuntu 10.04 on a Dell Latitude D600. Thanks again!

**MikeTbob** · 07-22-2010

You need to install the firmware for your card. Instructions can be found here. Post back if you need help or get confused with this part.
b43 - Linux Wireless

**cooltc2004** · 07-22-2010

Thanks for the help guys. I went to the website in MikeTbob's post, ran the command

Code:

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

like it said and got

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
b43-fwcutter is already the newest version.
0 upgrades, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

So I went down to the section titled "You are using the b43 driver with an LP-PHY card (e.g. BCM4312)

Follow these instructions if you are using the b43 driver from linux-2.6.32 and newer or compat-wireless-2.6, or from any current GIT tree, and have a device with a low-power PHY. "

I downloaded broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2 as posted in that section via http: //downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2 (cant post link below 15 posts) and when I try to manually extract the contents into /lib/firmware i get a "you dont have the right permissions" error.

Am I on the right track? I'm totally lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

**MikeTbob** · 07-23-2010

You are on the right track, you need to use root or sudo to extract the file to /lib/firmware because that is a system area and normal users do not have permission to write in that directory.

**cooltc2004** · 07-23-2010

Mike, thanks for the help. Do you know the sudo command in ubuntu to extract the file with super user access? (of course you do, care to share?

)

**reed9** · 07-23-2010

Should be

Code:

sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o

assuming wl_apsta.o is in the current working directory and b43-fwcutter is installed.

**cooltc2004** · 07-23-2010

I ran this code:

Code:

sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/broadcom/linux wl_apsta.o

and got

Cannot open input file wl_apsta.o

That is after I used the command

Code:

sudo nautilus

to open a GUI with root access and extract the file into /lib/firmware.

I am determined to get this working! Thank you all for your help!

**cooltc2004** · 07-23-2010

When I plug a CAT5 cable into the laptop, Ubuntu doesn't recognize it. What could be causing this?!

I started over with Ubuntu, installed b43-fwcutter and it installed but had an error since I dont have any network. I then followed the steps above for the network driver, and get through most of

Code:

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.4.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.4/driver
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o

until I get to the last line, then I get

Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter. This file has an unknown MD5sum bb8537e3204alea5903fe3e66b5e2763

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