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VaclavPe (vaclavpe) wrote : Can not set up wireless network on BCM4318

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