[SOLVED] BCM4311 802.11b/g Not Working on Linux Mint 17 RC

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[SOLVED] BCM4311 802.11b/g Not Working on Linux Mint 17 RC

Post by confusedMusican »

Hi, I am a newbie to Linux Mint. I updated recently my old Acer Aspire 5100 from Petra to Qiana and my Wireless Card is not working anymore.

When I had Petra I installed the linux-firmware-nonfree_1.14ubuntu1_all.deb and it got working again, but then when updating to Qiana I tried the same and it didn't work. I don't know what to do!

Here is the mintWifi result:

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
      ==> PCI ID = 14e4:4311 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:d4:d5:24:4d  
          UP BROADCAST 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)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:125 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:125 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:9247 (9.2 KB)  TX bytes:9247 (9.2 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
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Re: BCM4311 802.11b/g Not Working on Linux Mint 17 RC

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try this command in a terminal and see if it works.

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sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
Then do this one

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sudo modprobe b43
wait a minute and see if it's working
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Re: BCM4311 802.11b/g Not Working on Linux Mint 17 RC

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try this command in a terminal and see if it works.

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sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
Then do this one

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sudo modprobe b43

wait a minute and see if it's working
First code worked, but I am running sudo modprobe b43 for about one hour and it still didn't finish processing, is this normal?
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Re: BCM4311 802.11b/g Not Working on Linux Mint 17 RC

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no it's not normal. reboot and try again.

if it still does not work try the following in this order.

Go to system settings > additional drivers.
see if it offers to install any.

If it gives you the b43 install it.

If not then type the following commands in a terminal and list the outputs here.

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lsmod
rfkill list all
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Re: BCM4311 802.11b/g Not Working on Linux Mint 17 RC

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Rebooted and tried it again, it is working again! Thank you! :D
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Re: [SOLVED] BCM4311 802.11b/g Not Working on Linux Mint 17

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Glad it's working for you, Enjoy ;)
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Re: [SOLVED] BCM4311 802.11b/g Not Working on Linux Mint 17

Post by wewa »

Hello.

I have the same problem.

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I have re-installed LM 17.1 32 bit Mate on my Acer Aspire 9410z three times now from the DVD over one week, after trying too many broadcom 4311 suggestions online.

Had Ubuntu 8.10 working on this laptop for about 5 years (replacing the buggy disaster that was Vista, that came on this machine), and now everything is complaning that its outdated and refuses to update (firefox, chrome can't even install, youtube, etc.).
Can't remember how I got broadcom working then, but I do remember manually having to get it working after the 8.10 clean install.

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sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package 'bcmwl-kernel-source' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 437 not upgraded.

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mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
      ==> PCI ID = 14e4:4311 (rev 01)
-------------------------
* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:d3:55:ed:03  
          inet addr:192.168.1.17  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::216:d3ff:fe55:ed03/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:55393 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:17460 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:47954869 (47.9 MB)  TX bytes:2565196 (2.5 MB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:1212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:138873 (138.8 KB)  TX bytes:138873 (138.8 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
[sudo] password for xxxx: 
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:		192.168.1.1
Address:	192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:125.224.64
Address: 74.000.224.00
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.111.224.1
Name:	google.com
Address: 74..... etc.
modprobe command returned nothing:

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sudo modprobe b43
dude@Aspire ~ $
Go to system settings > additional drivers.
There is no 'system settings' or 'additional drivers' control panel when i search the mint menu?!
not in 17.1 anymore?

I did find Driver Manager:

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$ sudo modprobe b43
$

Aspire ~ $ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_hda_codec_si3054    12864  1 
snd_hda_codec_realtek    55163  1 
snd_hda_intel          42730  3 
snd_hda_codec         164067  3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13272  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                85501  3 snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc         14230  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_midi           13132  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     14475  1 snd_seq_midi
acer_wmi               31735  0 
sparse_keymap          13708  1 acer_wmi
snd_rawmidi            25135  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                55383  2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device         14137  3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
dm_multipath           22402  0 
snd_timer              28584  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
pcmcia                 51828  0 
scsi_dh                14458  1 dm_multipath
bnep                   18895  2 
rfcomm                 53664  0 
bluetooth             342208  10 bnep,rfcomm
coretemp               13195  0 
b43                   356470  0 
snd                    60939  17 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi
joydev                 17101  0 
serio_raw              13230  0 
bcma                   42043  1 b43
mac80211              546051  1 b43
yenta_socket           40201  0 
pcmcia_rsrc            18319  1 yenta_socket
tifm_7xx1              13163  0 
tifm_core              15133  1 tifm_7xx1
pcmcia_core            22328  3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket
lpc_ich                16864  0 
cfg80211              409394  2 b43,mac80211
soundcore              12600  1 snd
ssb_hcd                12749  0 
parport_pc             31981  0 
ppdev                  17391  0 
lp                     13299  0 
mac_hid                13037  0 
parport                40836  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
dm_mirror              21756  0 
dm_region_hash         20121  1 dm_mirror
dm_log                 18072  2 dm_region_hash,dm_mirror
sdhci_pci              18535  0 
psmouse                91329  0 
sdhci                  37779  1 sdhci_pci
ssb                    51854  2 b43,ssb_hcd
i915                  709755  2 
r8169                  61562  0 
video                  18903  2 i915,acer_wmi
i2c_algo_bit           13197  1 i915
drm_kms_helper         48868  1 i915
mii                    13654  1 r8169
drm                   244037  3 i915,drm_kms_helper
wmi                    18673  1 acer_wmi

Aspire ~ $ rfkill list all
Aspire ~ $
I will try rebooting at this point.

I have googled everywhere.
Thank you in advance.
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Re: [SOLVED] BCM4311 802.11b/g Not Working on Linux Mint 17

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There are two b43 drivers, one "legacy" and the other "normal". I loaded the "normal" one for my bcm4306, and worked (not with Mint but with Linux Lite in an old HP laptop). This is a problematic driver indeed!

see also:

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/692
Active Distros in my computers: LM21.1 (Mate,Xfce); MXLinux (Xfce)
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