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Old 10-22-2009, 03:51 PM
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Default Possible solution for broadcom-sta [BCM4312 BG] fail?

Been working on this damn problem about 3 hours and still no result!

System:
HP mini 2140, BCM4312 b/g rev 01 , kernel 2.6.30.7

I guess I've checked almost all google results related to this case. To quickly note the problem I should say that for some unknown reason b43 driver (loaded as b43-pci-bridge)is forcefully loaded, even after cleanly installing 'wl'.
Do not mention blacklisting tips nor re-compile/installing wl since I've tried every possible situation.
Now I`ve came to this point that, at least in BT4, blacklisting the b43 is NOT applied. I've tried multiple blacklist file names ( /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist OR blacklist.conf OR blacklist-bcm43)
,trying to blocking bcm43xx/ssb/b43/b44/ndiswrapper/b43legacy with no luck. still :
Quote:
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
dmseg have no usefull information :
Quote:
dmesg |grep -e wl -e b43
b43-pci-bridge 0000:08:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
b43-pci-bridge 0000:08:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
wl: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
Recompiling 2.6.30.7 & building fresh kernel-headers from scratch, followed by compiling wl driver from source and inserting the new module to kernel looks working fine, but no success loading wl at end.

After removing all b43 & other blacklisted modules and even renaming related .ko files , b43-pci-bridge still loads from no-where and catch the hardware before wl loads. fail again

depmod, depmod -a & depmod 2,6,30.7 or 'update-initramfs -v -u all' has been tried after replacing and removing drivers. fail again




what make this harwdare non-working :
b43-pci-bridge is always loaded BEFORE wl get the chance to catch hardware, so, it fails and you won`t have it working. While card hardware is known by lshw, it`s not detected by driver, so no interface is created.

possible solution:{you tell me!}
please show me how to completely get rid of b43 and won`t have it automatically loaded, considering all of my non-working efforts to blacklist it (and other broken drivers)...
blocking b43-pci-bridge will let wl take control of the card, and it would hopefully work.

Thanks God that I've my Ubiquity card and not locked down by this problem hardly.
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Old 11-01-2009, 01:00 AM
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And I would not remove b43 in favour of wl. wl has no support for monitor and injection because broadcrap removed such functionalities under their proprietary linux driver.

Last edited by hatake_kakashi; 11-01-2009 at 01:46 AM.
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