Problem - Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02)

zirtik · 02-01-2008, 09:50 PM

Hi,

Before starting I have to say that I read almost everything related to my chipset and tried all the solutions but none worked for me. Finally I found the page on:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...eisty_No-Fluff

and installed ndiswrapper but still my wireless card's light is red (not blue).
However, I didn't get any error messages at all and the installation seemed to be successful.

I am using an HP Pavillion dv2615nr and have the chipset:

Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02).

The weird thing is that when I type lshw -C network I get the following output:

Code:

lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: nVidia Corporation
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: a
       bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: a2
       serial: 00:16:d3:f2:78:16
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.61 ip=192.168.1.64 latency=0 maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 module=forcedeth multicast=yes
  *-network
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       version: 02
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0 module=ssb

I think my problem is with the last line because in my opinion the driver should be nidswrapper not b43-pci-bridge. If I'm right, how can I fix this?

Finally, here is the output for vim /etc/modules

Code:

#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

fuse
lp
rtc
sbp2
ndiswrapper

and I added the line

Code:

blacklist bcm43xx

to my /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file.

I am currently running Ubuntu - Hardy and wireless is my only problem. Looking desperately for help,

Thank you for reading and thanks in advance for any solution ideas.

silverstormboy · 02-01-2008, 10:28 PM

Hi, I have just post my reply to other user in this forum that used the same wireless card as mine when I saw your post

Im using Acer laptop 4620z with UBUNTU 7.l0 Gutsy.

I followed instruction from this smart guy:
http://invaleed.wordpress.com/2007/1...ci-ubuntu-710/

and it works for me.

Hope it will works for you also.

Good luck.

zirtik · 02-02-2008, 12:30 AM

Hi, thanks for replying. Unfortunately, I have already tried that trick and installed ndiswrapper from source. I even tried latest stable release of ndiswrapper, namely version 1.51. Everything seems perfect but I still can't make it. Again, the 'weird' thing is that when I type

lshw -C network

I get

Code:

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: nVidia Corporation
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: a
       bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: a2
       serial: 00:16:d3:f2:78:16
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.61 ip=192.168.1.64 latency=0 maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 module=forcedeth multicast=yes
  *-network
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       version: 02
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0 module=ssb

Note that the last line still says that I,m currently using the b43-pci-bridge driver and I think it is not supposed to be used. How can I change it to ndiswrapper?

Please help me

zirtik · 02-02-2008, 01:04 AM

Based on this post:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ge#post4216379

This was an issue related to Hardy and the new kernels. What I did was adding the following lines
to

Code:

rmmod ohci_hcd
rmmod ssb
rmmod ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper
modprobe ohci_hcd

and adding ssb to the blacklist (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist).

Now everything is fine!