BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless netbook

[inittux]

I decided to try and install fedora 16 xfce on my netbook and I got it installed. However it wasn't able to detect the wireless so I installed the driver. It's showing up when I run lspci but seems like it's not loaded cuz my network manager isn't detecting anything and when I run ifconfig I have no wlan0 showing up.

 

Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

 

Sound is working now. Just need to get this wireless thing figured out.

 

 

[root@feedmebits-net ~]# modprobe brcm80211

FATAL: Module brcm80211 not found.

[root@feedmebits-net ~]# iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

 

p5p1 no wireless extensions.

[Dungeon-Dave]

Sounds like you need the b43 or b43legacy modules:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

http://www.vsritual.com/posts/view/4c460...6ed8e3dc57

 

I know I had to compile a specific module then drop the .so file into /lib/modules for modprobe/depmod to pick it up, back in the FC5 days with machines that contained an onboard Broadcom LAN port. At the time it detected the hardware and listed it correctly (dmesg, hwconf and lspci all showed it) but it just couldn't match a suitable driver (module) to use.

 

I just followed someone's blog to download and manually compile the file, drop it in the right place, tweak modules.conf (precursor to modprobe.d/), rebooted... and it all worked.

 

Of course, as soon as we upgraded the machines to FC7, everything worked out of the box - card was detected and working natively. Annoying!

[inittux]

I got the driver from here:

 

http://pkgs.org/fedora-16/russian-fedora...h.rpm.html

[inittux]

[root@feedmebits-net hybrid_wl]# ls

hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112.tar.gz lib Makefile src

[root@feedmebits-net hybrid_wl]# make

KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`

make: *** /lib/modules/3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64/build: No such file or directory. Stop.

make: *** [all] Error 2

[root@feedmebits-net hybrid_wl]#

 

Thanks for that. I couldn't find the driver mentioned cuz broadcom seems to have removed it but I found a different one. But when I make it can't find a directory. The directories they came out of the tar file I mentioned above but there's no modules in there. hmmmmm

[inittux]

Gonna continue playing with it tomorrow. Not quite getting how to yet but will take some time.

[Dungeon-Dave]

Usually you need to run "configure" before "make" - check the README file (if one exists)

[inittux]

Usually you need to run "configure" before "make" - check the README file (if one exists)

 

Good one :)

 

I don't know what I did but I got it working. I think the following happened.

1. I installed gcc and devel-kernel

2. I rebooted

3. I installed this one: http://pkgs.org/fedo...noarch.rpm.html

4. I updated my system

5. rebooted.

6. Installed Development tools

7. Rebooted.

8. My wireless is now working.

 

Still need to work on some other stuff but the most importan things are working now. I didn't do anything else with broadcom wireless link. LOL. Now that's annoying. I got something working and I'm not exactly sure how but that's my logical guess.

[inittux]

And I made a huge partitioning mistake. LMAO. Instead 400 someting GB for my home drive I made it 400MB now it's full and there's now way to get that right. Will have to do this all over again. Cuz I really messed up my partitioning during installation. haha not really funny but oh well.

 

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

rootfs 11G 3.3G 7.1G 32% /

devtmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev

tmpfs 1.8G 88K 1.8G 1% /dev/shm

tmpfs 1.8G 50M 1.7G 3% /run

/dev/mapper/luks-45661d4f-e4e0-4e71-bcd4-77f9adb7ca58 11G 3.3G 7.1G 32% /

tmpfs 1.8G 50M 1.7G 3% /run

tmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup

tmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /media

/dev/sda1 194M 55M 130M 30% /boot

/dev/mapper/luks-cca41fa7-3f34-4333-8169-dd1eb6f2b1f4 483M 458M 22K 100% /home

 

#####

 

Wireless:

 

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 74:2F:68:2D:DF:11

inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::762f:68ff:fe2d:df11/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:408024 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:127461 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:559842084 (533.9 MiB) TX bytes:15766163 (15.0 MiB)

 

:)

[inittux]

Sounds like you need the b43 or b43legacy modules:

http://linuxwireless...ers/Drivers/b43

http://www.vsritual....72-686ed8e3dc57

 

I know I had to compile a specific module then drop the .so file into /lib/modules for modprobe/depmod to pick it up, back in the FC5 days with machines that contained an onboard Broadcom LAN port. At the time it detected the hardware and listed it correctly (dmesg, hwconf and lspci all showed it) but it just couldn't match a suitable driver (module) to use.

 

I just followed someone's blog to download and manually compile the file, drop it in the right place, tweak modules.conf (precursor to modprobe.d/), rebooted... and it all worked.

 

Of course, as soon as we upgraded the machines to FC7, everything worked out of the box - card was detected and working natively. Annoying!

 

Found a usefull post on the fedora forum about drivers and different ways to install them also mentioning yours. Going to reinstall my system this evening and make sure I partition everything right this time and try it this way for my wireless:

 

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=239922

[Dungeon-Dave]

If you're using LVM then you shouldn't need to repartition.

 

Also - you shouldn't need to reboot unless you're bringing a new kernel online.