Hello to Calculate Linux community!
First of all, I want to send all my regards to entire community.
And now, my problem… I’m new in Gentoo world, and I have a problem with my wireless… it doesn’t work.
Some details:
My wireless driver (after lspci | grep -i network):
Broadcom Corporation BCM43227 802.11b/g/n
I “eat” entire http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wifi page. I verified every option in Kernel Configuration and I compiled it.
I’ve installed b43 firmware and when I try to install net-wireless/broadcom-sta, I receive the following:
http://pastebin.com/01vR6eEi
… and still not working. What I’m supposed to do?
Thanks for reading and I hope I’ll find the solving there.
~ Madalin “nullstone”
broadcom-sta conflicts with b43.
try:
modprobe -r b43
modprobe wl
stone@calculate ~ $ sudo modprobe wl
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘wl’: Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
First command (modprobe -r b43) works fine, but at the second I receive the message from above.
Also b43 uses ssb
So…
# modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac
then Load the wl module:
# modprobe wl
Thanks for the answer… BUT:
modprobe: FATAL: Module b43 not found.
modprobe: FATAL: Module b43legacy not found.
modprobe: FATAL: Module brcmsmac not found.
And too:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘wl’: Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
Hmmm strange I have done this before with this module.
Post your
lsmod
post your as to all NICs
lspci
Sorry, I have not been available…
Broadcom is famous for having the need of other modules removed as @Iurii had pointed out.
Seems the same mem addresses get stepped on…
Without proper blacklisting some Broadcom drivers won’t load…
So I am thinking that maybe a step by step from this wiki might help this situation…
http://gentoo-en.vfose.ru/wiki/WLAN:BCM43227
Did you install kernel headers and sources before emerging broadcom-sta? Also it tells you to blacklist ssb, b43 and MAC80211 and to run etc-update after emerging broadcom-sta. And if all fails dump that card and get yourself an Atheros or Intel one. those work far better than broadcom.