Broadcom Wireless - Not work!

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1

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”

2

broadcom-sta conflicts with b43.
try:

modprobe -r b43
modprobe wl
3

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.

4

Also b43 uses ssb
So…

 # modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac

then Load the wl module:

 # modprobe wl
5

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)

6

Hmmm strange I have done this before with this module.
Post your
lsmod

post your as to all NICs
lspci

7

Here is:

lsmod:

Module Size Used by
ecryptfs 72814 0
ipv6 291040 50
8021q 16739 0
speedstep_lib 2959 0
cpufreq_userspace 1984 0
cpufreq_powersave 862 0
cpufreq_conservative 6273 0
uvcvideo 69588 0
videobuf2_vmalloc 2728 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 1727 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core 27140 1 uvcvideo
videodev 99441 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 28849 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 34520 1
broadcom 7206 0
snd_hda_intel 31958 2
snd_hda_codec 133037 3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
tg3 149402 0
ptp 7756 1 tg3
pps_core 6521 1 ptp
libphy 18822 2 tg3,broadcom
snd_hwdep 5884 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 73591 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc 6946 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 17975 1 snd_pcm
snd 56583 11 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
i2c_i801 9350 0
iTCO_wdt 5159 0
iTCO_vendor_support 1737 1 iTCO_wdt
ext4 324738 1
crc16 1231 1 ext4
jbd2 58301 1 ext4
mbcache 5642 1 ext4
coretemp 5782 0
hwmon 1241 2 tg3,coretemp
acpi_cpufreq 7014 1
mperf 1107 1 acpi_cpufreq
intel_powerclamp 7422 0
kvm_intel 124112 0
kvm 253585 1 kvm_intel
joydev 9375 0
acer_wmi 23240 0
sparse_keymap 2832 1 acer_wmi
rfkill 14941 1 acer_wmi
mxm_wmi 1307 0
microcode 11169 0
intel_ips 9233 0
lpc_ich 12689 0
mfd_core 2833 1 lpc_ich
bcma 29305 0
mei_me 7480 0
mei 39802 1 mei_me
battery 11203 0
ac 4095 0
wmi 7739 2 acer_wmi,mxm_wmi
processor 26347 5 acpi_cpufreq
i915 490805 8
video 11200 2 i915,acer_wmi
button 4445 1 i915
intel_agp 10424 1 i915
intel_gtt 11974 3 i915,intel_agp
i2c_algo_bit 5135 1 i915
drm_kms_helper 27833 1 i915
drm 217250 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_core 18868 6 drm,i915,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,videodev

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce 610M] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43227 802.11b/g/n
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

8

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

9

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.