Broadcom BCM4312 Wireless networks

[arky]

Binary package hint: network-manager

Network manager shows wireless network as disabled with Broadcom BCM4312

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7756664

[Daniel Santibáñez Polanco (dansanti)]

yes affect to me on inspiron 1525 after kernel upgrade

[geordish (me-geordish)]

I also have issues with this. I have to use wicd to connect.

[geordish (me-geordish)]

Additionally, I get this in my syslog

Aug 18 19:37:12 mercury NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:0c:00.0/net/eth1, iface: eth1)
Aug 18 19:37:12 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
Aug 18 19:37:12 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'wl')
Aug 18 19:37:12 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
Aug 18 19:37:12 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): now managed
Aug 18 19:37:12 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
Aug 18 19:37:12 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): preparing device.
Aug 18 19:37:12 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): deactivating device (reason: 2).
Aug 18 19:37:12 mercury NetworkManager: <WARN> check_one_route(): (eth1) error -34 returned from rtnl_route_del(): Sucess#012
Aug 18 19:37:12 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant manager state: down -> idle
Aug 18 19:37:18 mercury NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:0c:00.0/net/eth1, iface: eth1)
Aug 18 19:39:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): now unmanaged
Aug 18 19:39:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 2 -> 1 (reason 36)
Aug 18 19:39:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): cleaning up...
Aug 18 19:39:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): taking down device.
Aug 18 19:40:44 mercury NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:0c:00.0/net/eth1, iface: eth1)
Aug 18 19:40:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
Aug 18 19:40:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'wl')
Aug 18 19:40:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
Aug 18 19:40:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): now managed
Aug 18 19:40:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
Aug 18 19:40:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): preparing device.
Aug 18 19:40:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): deactivating device (reason: 2).
Aug 18 19:40:44 mercury NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant manager state: down -> idle

[Tony Espy (awe)]

arky, can you run the command "apport-collect <bug number>" from a terminal ( or Run Command dialog ) to add additional debug information to this bug?

I don't think this is a generic bug with the 'wl' driver, as I'm running Karmic on a fairly new Macbook which uses the BCM4312, and I haven't seen this problem.

[geordish (me-geordish)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: network-manager (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-7.27-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-7-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare

[Daniel Santibáñez Polanco (dansanti)]

I think that it's aproblem with linux-backports, becouse, when i been remove it, my Wifi card work.

[Daniel Santibáñez Polanco (dansanti)]

Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 192.168.57.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.57.58 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.57.1 dev wlan0 proto static
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: network-manager 0.8~a~git.20090820t182117.cb60390-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-8.28-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-8-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape vboxusers video

[geordish (me-geordish)]

Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 212.23.9.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 212.23.9.82 metric 1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 212.23.9.254 dev eth0 proto static
Package: network-manager 0.8~a~git.20090820t182117.cb60390-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-8.28-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-8-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
CheckboxSubmission: 9b1c42f2c4272f48c55ec16067f055f9
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Gconf:

IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
IpRoute:
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.15 metric 1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.1.254 dev eth0 proto static
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
Package: network-manager 0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RfKill:
 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1717): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1717): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1825): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1817): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:1816): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -6 and height 24

[arky (arky)]

Broadcom Wireless drivers work on ubuntu karmic

http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2009/09/configure-broadcom-wireless-drivers.html

[Andy (andy-xillean)]

I am having the same problem here. Please help I beg.
I have a new Dell inspiron 1525n laptop. I just wiped it and installed a fresh Ubuntu9.10.
I selected the Broadcom STA wireless driver in "Hardware Drivers".
I rebooted the laptop but now network manager shows (greyed out) wireless is disabled.
When i do Ifconfig it shows the wireless driver as eth2 eth0 is the wired lan card.

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:1a:04:6d:5f:2b
          inet6 addr: fe80::721a:4ff:fe6d:5f2b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000

Iwconfig gives me this

eth2 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:off
          Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Managementmode:All packets received

So the wireless seems to be OK it looks like a problem with Network Manager. How do i fix this
please i beg.

[Andy (andy-xillean)]

dmesg shows this

$ dmesg|grep eth
[ 3.059730] sky2 eth0: addr 00:25:64:69:66:70
[ 10.062294] eth1: Broadcom BCM4315 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.10.91.9
[ 10.067783] udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth2
[ 18.508525] sky2 eth0: enabling interface
[ 18.508698] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 29.241030] eth2: no IPv6 routers present
[ 62.421934] sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx
[ 62.422115] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes read
[ 73.044056] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

lspci shows this
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

So this is another famous show stopping bug it seems.

Here in lspci we get BCM4312
and in dmesg we get BCM4315.

what can be done to fix this? Anyone?

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Andy, if network-manager shows wireless disabled, then this is most likely a killswitch problem.

Can you run the command in comment #4 to add specific debugging information for your system? In your case, you'll probably see a Network Manager log message in /var/log/daemon.log which states that the Wi-Fi card kill switch is disabled.

Please make sure you have the latest updates installed also, as there've been recent fixes made to some of the Dell platform drivers which control the Wi-Fi kill switches.

I'm also moving this to the kernel package as this is *not* a network-manager bug.

[TomasHermosilla (thermosilla)]

Andy try the following command: sudo rmmod dell_laptop. If after this your wireless is enabled, ad the line blacklist dell_laptop to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

[pmb (pmb-langbit)]

Removing dell_laptop module worked just fine for me, now network manager shows wireless networks.

[RichardAU (richard270384)]

Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: richard 1852 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9228'
   Components : 'HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000 HDA:10951392,10280242,00100000 HDA:83847616,10280242,00100402'
   Controls : 33
   Simple ctrls : 20
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=7781b585-a82a-4af6-ac80-0c4dbb9567dc
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.2)
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.

 pan0 no wireless extensions.
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.2)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1525
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=4cb072d4-4c27-4a98-9caa-bb7e5d72dbc9 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-14-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.24
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1864): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1864): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1986): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1972): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:1969): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 24
dmi.bios.date: 10/16/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A16
dmi.board.name: 0U990C
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA16:bd10/16/2008:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1525:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0U990C:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1525
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[RichardAU (richard270384)]

I'm also having this problem. The output of apport-collect 410963 is above.

I have the Broadcom STA Wireless driver installed. If I boot and then go into System->Admin->Hardware Drivers the driver is "activated, but not currently in use". If I Remove the driver and re-add it my Wifi works and the driver is "activiated and in use", but the whole system seems to crash randomly afterwards, and when I restart the driver is again "activated, but not currently in use".

[Flemming Bjerke (flem)]

In Karmic Kubuntu, BCM4312 (wireless on hp 550) does not work out the box. System > hardwaredrivers finds two drivers for the card. The free driver (b43) does not work. The proprietary one (wl) works, but the very installation may freeze your box. First, kde was frozen. I tried to restart kdm, and then the box froze, After after swithching of and boot, everything seems to work fine, incl. wireless.

Thus, there is no need to compile your kernel, etc., though it is though way to install a driver ;-)

NB: Before you activate the proprietary driver, you must deactivate the free driver. Else, your kernel may be destroyed!!! (That was what happened on my box. My luck was that there was an older kernel in the grub menu. Else, I would have been a bit annoyed!!!)

I have attached messages, if someone should like to investestigate the phenomenon: My hp550 froze two times this morning. First time, I had to reinstall kernel-2.6.31-15. Second time, I just had to boot. The last two lines of messages.1 are:
Nov 28 15:55:23 lap kernel: [ 9015.050364] type=1505 audit(1259420123.625:34): operation="profile_load" pid=27709 name=/usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer
Nov 29 08:03:51 lap rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="963" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.

[Reloweb (reloweb)]

When i update xserver-xorg-input-all my Dell Studio 1557 shows Wireless Card as disabled. I have BCM4312.

[r083r7 (l480rt-deactivatedaccount)]

TomasHermosilla #21
Got it right in the haystack. Next laptop I buy will come with linux preinstalled to minimize this nonsense.(atlest I hope)

[Patrick Correa (patrickc81)]

Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: pcorrea 1371 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6dfc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9205'
   Components : 'HDA:838476a0,102801fe,00100204 HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000'
   Controls : 25
   Simple ctrls : 16
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=0f291215-037c-4de0-9a58-bfb0841349da
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D830
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: linux (not installed)
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-19-generic root=UUID=d5f8542f-2c1a-4dc2-85f1-4bcf85a5def9 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-19-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.25
RfKill:
 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: yes
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 12/11/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A14
dmi.board.name: 0HN341
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA14:bd12/11/2008:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD830:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0HN341:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude D830
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Patrick Correa (patrickc81)]

Weird error for me on an Dell Latitude D830... basically wireless works fine now if I boot with the killswitch set to off, then move it to on after login.

However, wireless does not work if I boot with the killswitch set to on. The wireless shows as disabled in NetworkManager. Moving the killswitch from on to off will allow the wireless to see access points, but it will always be unsuccessful at trying to connect to any APs until I reboot with the killswitch set to off and not move it to on until after startup.

Very weird problem.. I have a feeling it may be a kernel issue as it happened after a System Update.

[Reloweb (reloweb)]

I have your same problem. I've got a Dell Studio 1557.

[Mark Cariaga (mzc)]

The HP Mini 1116NR is also affected by this bug.

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

Removing dell_laptop module gave me "wireless disconnected", which is better than the previous "wireless disabled". But I still can't see any access points.

[Pander (pander)]

For me, it also stopt working after the latest kernel upgrade but worked with the earlier kernel from Karmic. Is simply downgrading the kernel a workaround?

[Pander (pander)]

See also Ubuntu forum that many users have been affected by the breakage of this driver with the kernel upgrade late March 2010. Please post a workaround or fix, e.g. in terms of downgrading kernel and related packages, in order to be able to use wireless internet again with BCM4312.

[Reloweb (reloweb)]

This problem persist in Lucid Lynx RC

[Pander (pander)]

Can someone change the Importance of this bug so it stays on the 'radar' for Lucid too. I will not upgrade to Lucid if that has broken wireless for my machine. I assume other owners of this hardware will feel the same about this.

[Pander (pander)]

In which package version will ship this fix? It is not in Linux 2.6.31-21-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP x86_64.

[Christopher (captain-c)]

I have this problem now as well. It just happened too a while after the 2.6.31-23 kernel upgrade.

Lucid 64-bit
Linux 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 08:03:28 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Pander (pander)]

With Linux 2.6.31-22-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Karmic it works after pressing special buttons on my laptop that should enable wireless card. Can you try that?