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    No wireless in 9.10 with Broadcom BCM4312

    Hi

    I just upgraded from 9.04 -> 9.10 and that made me loose my wireless connection. I'm running the 32-bit version. In "Hardware drivers" the "Broadcom STA wireless driver" states that it's activated and currently in use. When I try to connect it does all the things, but fails on getting the IP-address (there is a long time-out, or some thing). My laptop is Acer Extensa 5220. As the title says I'm using a Broadcom BCM4312 wireless card.

    I tried:
    Reinstalling the driver package

    In WICD I tried:
    Changing from wext to hostap, madwifi, atmel, ndiswrapper ect.
    Changing from external to ioctl

    But no luck.

    In terminal "lspci -v" outputs:

    04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e003
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
    Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: wl
    Kernel modules: wl, ssb

    Please help!!

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    Re: No wireless in 9.10 with Broadcom BCM4312

    "sudo lshw -C network" output:

    *-network
    description: Wireless interface
    product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
    vendor: Broadcom Corporation
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
    logical name: eth1
    version: 01
    serial: 00:1f:e1:16:46:06
    width: 64 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
    configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.10.91.9 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
    resources: irq:17 memory:f8000000-f8003fff

    "lsmod | grep wl" output:
    wl 1272936 0
    lib80211 6432 2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl

    I noticed that the driver loaded is wl, but the driver in use is wl0 does this mean anything?

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    Re: No wireless in 9.10 with Broadcom BCM4312

    Wireless now working. (Hopefully for good)

    All I did was:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get upgrade
    sudo aptitude reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
    I don't know if i'll work for any body else, or me for long. But feel free to try!

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    Re: No wireless in 9.10 with Broadcom BCM4312

    Didn't work for me

    Lenovo G530 with the same chipset BCM4312.

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    Re: No wireless in 9.10 with Broadcom BCM4312

    I've tried the same with 9.10 on a Dell Inspiron 1720, 4312 b/g wireless. Did not work for me. I've tried the hybrid drivers from Broadcom @ http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
    I've tried the b43 driver, and the STA driver from Ubuntu restricted drivers. Just can't get the thing to even show up.

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    Re: No wireless in 9.10 with Broadcom BCM4312

    Same here with the Broadcom STA driver. I previously had the 9.10 Koala netbook remix version installed and it worked great in that. Now that I've installed the desktop/laptop version (prefer the classic desktop look) it pops up that the driver is available but when I go to activate it, after giving my password for permission, it shows the keys symbol at the top taskbar for a brief second then it (keys symbol) just disappears and it never activates the driver.
    Does the same thing when I find the driver by going to System->Administration->Hardware Drivers

    Must be a bug somewhere since it is working fine on the netbook remix version, like I said.

    Everything else and the installation itself went fine. It's even running on my wired connection just fine and I've downloaded several apps from the repos already. Wireless connection is the only issue I can see.
    Last edited by cen; November 2nd, 2009 at 05:31 AM.

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    Re: No wireless in 9.10 with Broadcom BCM4312

    http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

    I was having exactly the same issues. I tried handling it on my own at first using the drivers the 64bit 9.10 located, obviously that failed. Gubbi's ideas did not work for me either. I am running a Dell XPS M1530 with the BCM4312 wireless card. The link above did work for me however. The important thing about using the broadcom link is to ensure you read the wonderful notepad that you can download too. Especially if like me you are still pretty new at Ubuntu/linux.
    Stay Safe!

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    Angry Re: No wireless in 9.10 with Broadcom BCM4312

    Doesn't work for me on an HP Mini 1033 (1000 series) with a BCM4312 on 9.10.
    Why was 9.10 released with SO MANY notebooks regressed to not working?

    If I install the proprietary drivers using the Hardware Drivers tool, my system locks up and never boots again (kernel panic w/ no output on module load). The native drivers don't work, but they worked OUT OF THE BOX on 9.04!

    [ 61.875158] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
    [ 61.920173] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1)

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    Re: No wireless in 9.10 with Broadcom BCM4312

    You guys should try switching to ndiswrapper and follow this post. it's a bit annoying but it still works for me. I also have BCM4312.

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...22&postcount=4

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    Re: No wireless in 9.10 with Broadcom BCM4312

    Quote Originally Posted by doixanh View Post
    You guys should try switching to ndiswrapper and follow this post. it's a bit annoying but it still works for me. I also have BCM4312.

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...22&postcount=4
    I may try that tonight, I also ordered a new Dell 1490 wireless card today so I'll see if that plays any better with 9.10.
    I also tried several Live CD's from Fedora and OpenSuse, all seemed to have the same problem with the 4312 card.

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