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Jockey can not set up wireless network on BCM4318

Bug #355645 reported by VaclavPe on 2009-04-05

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Expired	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Jockey fails to correctly identify, obtain, load, and activate proprietary b43 driver or the ndiswrapper required for Broadcom BCM4318 wireless interface.

Note by nUboon2Age: on my bcm4318 my system worked when I manually installed fwcutter (details given in link below)

Original description by VaclavPe:
I tried to set up the wireless network on Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro EF6R. The distribution is Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty beta.

In Connection Manager in KDE I can't even see any access point when scanning network (it works on Orinoco card on my "main computer" with Kubuntu Jaunty beta live).

Following are outputs from lspci, iwconfig, lshw and lsmod.

> lspci
06:04.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318](rev 02)

> iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

> lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network:0
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:16:36:26:7c:61
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI latency=64 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=r8169 multicast=yes
  *-network:1
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 4
       bus info: pci@0000:06:04.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb
  *-network:0 DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:14:a5:99:e1:2d
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
  *-network:1 DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: pan0
       serial: 1a:bc:44:0f:03:5e
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes

> lsmod
Module Size Used by
rfkill_input 12800 0
i915 65668 2
drm 96424 3 i915
ppdev 15492 0
bridge 56340 0
stp 10500 1 bridge
bnep 20224 2
lp 17156 0
parport 42220 2 ppdev,lp
joydev 18368 0
arc4 9856 2
ecb 10752 2
snd_intel8x0 37532 2
snd_ac97_codec 112292 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 9856 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 46336 0
snd_mixer_oss 22656 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 82820 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 10756 0
snd_seq_oss 37760 0
snd_seq_midi 14336 0
snd_rawmidi 29696 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 15104 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
b43 131612 0
snd_seq 56880 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
pcmcia 44748 0
snd_timer 29704 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14988 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
mac80211 217080 1 b43
iTCO_wdt 19108 0
iTCO_vendor_support 11652 1 iTCO_wdt
tifm_7xx1 13824 0
intel_agp 34108 1
snd 62628 14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
yenta_socket 32396 1
rsrc_nonstatic 19328 1 yenta_socket
pcspkr 10496 0
tifm_core 15900 1 tifm_7xx1
cfg80211 38032 1 mac80211
agpgart 42696 3 drm,intel_agp
soundcore 15200 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 16904 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
sdhci_pci 15232 0
sdhci 23940 1 sdhci_pci
pcmcia_core 43540 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
led_class 12036 1 b43
input_polldev 11912 1 b43
psmouse 61972 0
irda 197052 0
crc_ccitt 10112 1 irda
serio_raw 13316 0
video 25360 0
output 11008 1 video
ohci1394 38576 0
ieee1394 94660 1 ohci1394
ssb 41220 1 b43
r8169 40836 0
mii 13312 1 r8169
fbcon 46112 0
tileblit 10752 1 fbcon
font 16384 1 fbcon
bitblit 13824 1 fbcon
softcursor 9984 1 bitblit

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Jordan Bain (jbain-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-04-05:

Thanks for filing the bug. Could you attach the output of:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning

Thanks.

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VaclavPe (vaclavpe) wrote on 2009-04-05:

Hello,
> sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

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Jarl (jarl-dk) wrote on 2009-04-25:

I got this problem on my Acer Ferrari with Jaunty final just installed
output from the commands are similar to what CaclavPe provided.

What is the status for this bug?

I can add this information:
On the Acer Ferrari there is a button for wifi and a LED. The led is off, and pressing the button does not do anything. I would expect that the button would tell the driver to switch wifi on, and the driver would tell the hardwire to actually turn on the wifi radio transmitter/receiver.

Is there a relevant workaround? ndiswrapper? Alternative kernel module?

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Jarl (jarl-dk) wrote on 2009-04-27:

Apparently my issue was that the firmware was not installed.

I went to (using mouse) the menu->Applications->System->Hardware Drivers. Here I could just click on installing proprietary driver (firmware) for b43. From then on everything went fine.

Technically I think it installed and ran the package b43-fwcutter.

Jarl

arky (arky) on 2009-08-26

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^_Pepe_^ (jose-angel-fernandez-freire) wrote on 2010-01-04:

Hi,

Vaclav, as original reporter, please can you tell us whether this is still an issue for you?

Thanks in advance

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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nUboon2Age (nuboon2age) wrote on 2010-05-15:

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I finally got this working in Lucid Lynx. Following the system info below is the workaround that should give the developers the roadmap to resolving the bug and many others enough to get their systems working. I got it from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=190177

By the way, this system info is taken as its working now, so maybe some of the info is different than before it was working:

My computer: Dell Inspiron 2200

>lspci
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g]
802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

>iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"visit"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1D:6A:CB:35:B9
          Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:39/100 Signal level:-71 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

jamboi@jamboi-2go:~$ iwconfig > afile
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

> lshw -C network
  *-network:0
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:90:4b:d6:eb:79
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.55+Broadcom,12/22/2004, 3.100. ip=192.168.1.35 latency=64 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
       resources: irq:19 memory:dfdfe000-dfdfffff
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci@0000:02:08.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: 00:11:43:54:b4:d3
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration:
           broadcast=yes driver=e100
           driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=64
           maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes
       resources: irq:20 memory:dfdfd000-dfdfdfff ioport:df40(size=64)

> lsmod

I finally got this working in Lucid Lynx.  Following the system info below is the workaround that should give the developers the roadmap to resolving the bug and many others enough to get their systems working.  I got it from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=190177

By the way, this system info is taken as its working now, so maybe some of the info is different than before it was working:

My computer: Dell Inspiron 2200

>lspci
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 
802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

>iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"visit"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:1D:6A:CB:35:B9   
          Bit Rate=24 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm   
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B   
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:39/100  Signal level:-71 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

jamboi@jamboi-2go:~$ iwconfig > afile
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

> lshw -C network
  *-network:0             
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:90:4b:d6:eb:79
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.55+Broadcom,12/22/2004, 3.100. ip=192.168.1.35 latency=64 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
       resources: irq:19 memory:dfdfe000-dfdfffff
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci@0000:02:08.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: 00:11:43:54:b4:d3
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: 
           broadcast=yes driver=e100 
           driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=64     
           maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes
       resources: irq:20 memory:dfdfd000-dfdfdfff ioport:df40(size=64)

> lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
binfmt_misc             6587  1 
ppdev                   5259  0 
fbcon                  35102  71 
tileblit                2031  1 fbcon
font                    7557  1 fbcon
bitblit                 4707  1 fbcon
softcursor              1189  1 bitblit
vga16fb                11385  0 
vgastate                8961  1 vga16fb
snd_intel8x0           25588  2 
snd_ac97_codec        100646  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                1002  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            35308  0 
snd_mixer_oss          13746  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                70662  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           1338  0 
snd_seq_oss            26726  0 
snd_seq_midi            4557  0 
snd_rawmidi            19056  1 snd_seq_midi
joydev                  8708  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      6003  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                47263  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              19098  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          5700  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
pcmcia                 33024  0 
i915                  282354  3 
drm_kms_helper         29297  1 i915
ndiswrapper           184677  0 
snd                    54148  14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
drm                   162471  4 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            5028  1 i915
dell_wmi                1793  0 
yenta_socket           20408  1 
rsrc_nonstatic         10015  1 yenta_socket
intel_agp              24177  2 i915
soundcore               6620  1 snd
dell_laptop             6856  0 
psmouse                63245  0 
lp                      7028  0 
video                  17375  1 i915
pcmcia_core            32964  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
dcdbas                  5422  1 dell_laptop
serio_raw               3978  0 
snd_page_alloc          7076  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
agpgart                31724  2 drm,intel_agp
output                  1871  1 video
parport                32635  2 ppdev,lp
usb_storage            39425  2 
e100                   28211  0 
mii                     4381  1 e100

--------------------------------------------------

Steps from:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=190177

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
  add blacklist bcm43xx

After this, reboot and make sure that when you go to System > Administration > Networking there isnt a listing for your wireless connection

Step 2: Get ndiswrapper

Make sure you have the universe repositories enabled. (google it if you dont know how) and go to a terminal and type the following:

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils

this might prompt you for your password and ask you to continue and such, its very easy, just go through it.

Step 3: Use ndiswrapper to configure the drivers

Get the drivers you need, i suggest these ones, and make sure u have the .inf and .sys files of the driver. If you use the ones i suggested they will be bcmwl5.sys and bcmwl5.inf

Once you have the driver, put them on the desktop and then go to a terminal and type:

sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/bcmwl5.inf

this will install the driver

then, in the same terminal window, type:

sudo ndiswrapper -m

now restart and you will be able to connect to wireless networks. If you have a wep encryption on your wireless network, go on to step 4 below.

Step 4: Installing Network Manager

Network manager will allow you to connect to those wep encrpypted networks.

Simply go to a terminal window and type:

sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome

Let that install by typing your password and whatnot, then restart and you will be good to go, just click on it up in the corner and select your wireless network.

Step 6: Modprobe ndiswrapper

Still not working?
go to a terminal window and type:

modprobe ndiswrapper

and

echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules

(I couldn't get the second one to work, that way but I gather the intention is to add the line "ndiswrapper" to the file "/etc/modules" so I just did it in gedit)

Step 7:  Change ndiswrapper (I didn't need this but for completeness I include it)
It should also be noted that if that does not work try

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper

and then changing "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to "alias eth1 ndiswrapper"

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nUboon2Age (nuboon2age) wrote on 2010-05-15:

I forgot to add to the above:

uname -a && cat /etc/*release
Linux jamboi-2go 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"

nUboon2Age (nuboon2age) on 2010-05-16

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nUboon2Age (nuboon2age) wrote on 2010-05-16: apport information

Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
[ 41.588441] ndiswrapper (iw_set_auth:1602): invalid cmd 12
[ 42.059314] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 52.256033] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 2200
Package: jockey-common 0.5.8-0ubuntu8
PackageArchitecture: all
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=f529879a-da19-4ab3-9d0f-cdda072b3c4d ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 03/31/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A03
dmi.board.name: 0U6962
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA03:bd03/31/2005:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron2200:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0U6962:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 2200
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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summary:

- Can not set up wireless network on BCM4318
+ Jaunty can not set up wireless network on BCM4318

nUboon2Age (nuboon2age) on 2010-05-16

description:	updated
summary:	- Jaunty can not set up wireless network on BCM4318 + Jockey can not set up wireless network on BCM4318

nUboon2Age (nuboon2age) on 2010-05-19

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote on 2012-04-09:

#20

VaclavPe, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Jaunty reached EOL on October 23, 2010.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We were wondering if this is still an issue on a supported release? If so, can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command in a supported release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

tags:	added: jaunty needs-upstream-testing
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-06-08:

#21

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Expired

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