Description of problem: brcm80211 driver unable to find network interface for bcm4313, Netbook is a Acer D260 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mageia alpha 1 KDE How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Mageia Control Centre then network Tools 2.Display Network Centre 3.Finds bcm4313 as available but then will not connect using brcm80211 can a Mageia .rpm file be created that looks after the Broadcom Wireless drivers or development be done of the brcm80211 driver presently network interface brcm80211 sadly does not recognize a bcm4313 wireless device within the Acer D260 notebook. It looks like the brcm80211 driver is being relied on by Mageia to do the job, however in reality ( and I would presume this concerns every Acer D260 owner who has installed Mageia ) what I presently get is "Unable to find network interface for selected device using brcm80211 driver" The brcm80211 file if it is installed in Mageia Alpha appears to do nothing. The former broadcom -sta driver works in this same computer with ubuntu 10.04, and despite lots of errors with xorg the latest PC Linux Gnome based on mandriva finds the bcm4313 straight away, so it can be done. The front indicator light does not glow orange to indicate wireless is working Can some work be done to solve this in alpha 2 or versions closer to official release. Either by getting the brcm80211 to properly do its task, or with consultation with Broadcom who seem to be helpful to solve functionality of their drivers. Also Fedora seem to have a fix with a .rpm file. Could the package managers take some time to get the broadcom wireless notebooks and laptops ( I presume there are quite a few computers with the broadcom chipsets ) working properly with Mageia. A notebook without wireless capability is pretty hard to use, as it is stuck in one spot to access internet with a cable, and I really do not want to go back to Ubuntu when Mageia is so pleasant and nice to use. I hope this can be solved and I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you /Chris Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Maybe a missing firmware? Please _attach_ your dmesg output.
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOCC: (none) => thierry.vignaudSource RPM: drakx-net-0.93-3.mga1 , 2.6.37.3-desktop-1.mga sorry this is not an rpm but a Bug Report Tool at this point refers to these locations => kernel
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb
Also please try with kernel-2.6.38-1.mga1
I have the same problem even if the model is slightly different : 44:00.0 0280: 14e4:4353 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01) The firmware not found seems a packaging bug, like this OpenSUSE one : https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054 However, symlinking the firmware file with : cd /lib/firmware/brcm && ln -s bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw bcm43xx-0.fw resulted in a crash at boot : the brcm80211 driver just crashes. I solved it installing dkms-broadcom-wl , and creating a file to blacklist brcm80211 driver : /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-wl containing only one line : blacklist brcm80211 Maybe this file could come in the dkms-broadcom-wl file?
CC: (none) => lists.jjorge
(In reply to comment #3) > I have the same problem even if the model is slightly different : > > 44:00.0 0280: 14e4:4353 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 > 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01) > > The firmware not found seems a packaging bug, like this OpenSUSE one : > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054 > Yeah, it's still broken upstream ... > However, symlinking the firmware file with : > cd /lib/firmware/brcm && ln -s bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw bcm43xx-0.fw > resulted in a crash at boot : the brcm80211 driver just crashes. Fixed symlinks for all brcm80211 firmwares are now available in kernel-firmware-extra-20110310-4.mga1 > I solved it installing dkms-broadcom-wl , and creating a file to blacklist > brcm80211 driver : > > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-wl > > containing only one line : > > blacklist brcm80211 > > Maybe this file could come in the dkms-broadcom-wl file? Yep, good idea, added in broadcom-wl-5.100.82.38-3.mga1
OK, it works. How to ensure Mageia will install broadcom-wl when this WLAN card is present?
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)