[SOLVED] Broadcom-kernel-source

[Evinawer]

Hello.

I'm new in LinuxMint (well, in Linux in general).
Today I've installed LinuxMint Qiara. During the LiveCD session I could connect to internet by changing in the Driver Manager to Broadcom-kernel-source.
Then when the installation finished, I restarted the computer and LinuxMint started normally. But the Broadcom-kernel-source was deactivated.
I thought "Well, I have only to activate it again and click on Apply Changes"... No, it doesn't work. I click on Apply Changes and it starts applying but it suddenly stops and returns to "Do not use the device".

My questions then are... Why could I (actually, I can still because I'm writing in this forum) use the driver in LiveCD (USB stick) but not with the installed LinuxMint? Does any one know how I can solve this problem?

I've tried some solutions from the forum but none resulted... I thought I had a problem with the hardware but now I'm connected so... Also, I thought it was the package and I purged Broadcom and installed other .deb that another forum thread proposed. The same result. I've tried it to ask to the USB stick source to install it again. But I'm still having problems.

Can you help me, please?

Thank you all very much!

[JeremyB]

Hello.

I'm new in LinuxMint (well, in Linux in general).
Today I've installed LinuxMint Qiara. During the LiveCD session I could connect to internet by changing in the Driver Manager to Broadcom-kernel-source.
Then when the installation finished, I restarted the computer and LinuxMint started normally. But the Broadcom-kernel-source was deactivated.
I thought "Well, I have only to activate it again and click on Apply Changes"... No, it doesn't work. I click on Apply Changes and it starts applying but it suddenly stops and returns to "Do not use the device".

My questions then are... Why could I (actually, I can still because I'm writing in this forum) use the driver in LiveCD (USB stick) but not with the installed LinuxMint? Does any one know how I can solve this problem?

I've tried some solutions from the forum but none resulted... I thought I had a problem with the hardware but now I'm connected so... Also, I thought it was the package and I purged Broadcom and installed other .deb that another forum thread proposed. The same result. I've tried it to ask to the USB stick source to install it again. But I'm still having problems.

Can you help me, please?

Thank you all very much! :D

Can you open a terminal and tell me what this command returns?

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lspci -nn | grep -iA2 net

And if the driver is the best one bcmwl-kernel-source can be loaded from DVD

[Evinawer]

Hello, JeremyB. Thanks for answered me and sorry for the late of my reply.

Here what you asked me:

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eva@EvaC-laptop ~ $ lspci -nn | grep -iA2 net
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02)
06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller [197b:2380]
06:00.1 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller [197b:2382]

Do you have an idea?

[JeremyB]

What should work is this

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sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

and reboot
If it doesn't work post the results of

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lsmod

[Evinawer]

I don't have internet (only by another computer Windows or LiveCD) and there's no way I can connect with the cable (for the moment).

So I can't install the firmware you are saying to me... here the info in with lsmod command:

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eva@EvaC-laptop ~ $ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1          12713  1 
usb_storage            62209  1 
joydev                 17381  0 
gpio_ich               13476  0 
hp_wmi                 14062  0 
sparse_keymap          13948  1 hp_wmi
rfcomm                 69160  0 
bnep                   19624  2 
bluetooth             395423  10 bnep,rfcomm
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     46207  1 
uvcvideo               80885  0 
videobuf2_vmalloc      13216  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops       13362  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core         40664  1 uvcvideo
videodev              134688  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
coretemp               13435  0 
wacom                  62856  0 
snd_hda_codec_idt      54645  1 
kvm                   451511  0 
snd_hda_intel          52355  5 
snd_hda_codec         192906  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13602  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm               102099  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc         18710  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
dm_multipath           22873  0 
snd_seq_midi           13324  0 
psmouse               102222  0 
scsi_dh                14882  1 dm_multipath
snd_seq_midi_event     14899  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi            30144  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                61560  2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
serio_raw              13462  0 
snd_seq_device         14497  3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
binfmt_misc            17468  1 
snd_timer              29482  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
lpc_ich                21080  0 
snd                    69238  21 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi
jmb38x_ms              18670  0 
memstick               16966  1 jmb38x_ms
ir_mce_kbd_decoder     13214  0 
ir_lirc_codec          13021  0 
lirc_dev               19980  1 ir_lirc_codec
ir_sanyo_decoder       12839  0 
parport_pc             32701  0 
ir_jvc_decoder         12751  0 
ir_sony_decoder        12713  0 
ppdev                  17671  0 
ir_rc6_decoder         12874  0 
ir_rc5_decoder         12710  0 
ir_nec_decoder         12915  0 
soundcore              12680  1 snd
rc_rc6_mce             12502  0 
b43                   387371  0 
bcma                   52096  1 b43
mac80211              626489  1 b43
hp_accel               26012  0 
ene_ir                 22536  0 
rc_core                28124  12 lirc_dev,ir_lirc_codec,ir_rc5_decoder,ir_nec_decoder,ir_sony_decoder,ene_ir,ir_mce_kbd_decoder,ir_jvc_decoder,ir_rc6_decoder,ir_sanyo_decoder,rc_rc6_mce
cfg80211              484040  2 b43,mac80211
lis3lv02d              20156  1 hp_accel
mac_hid                13205  0 
input_polldev          13896  1 lis3lv02d
lp                     17759  0 
parport                42348  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
dm_mirror              22135  0 
dm_region_hash         20862  1 dm_mirror
dm_log                 18411  2 dm_region_hash,dm_mirror
usbhid                 52616  0 
hid                   106148  1 usbhid
firewire_ohci          40409  0 
ahci                   25819  3 
libahci                32168  1 ahci
radeon               1514165  3 
ssb                    62379  1 b43
firewire_core          68769  1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t              12707  1 firewire_core
sdhci_pci              23172  0 
sdhci                  43015  1 sdhci_pci
r8169                  67581  0 
mii                    13934  1 r8169
wmi                    19177  1 hp_wmi
i2c_algo_bit           13413  1 radeon
ttm                    85115  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper         52758  1 radeon
drm                   302817  5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
video                  19476  0 

I don't know if it's useful but someone told me to give you also this:

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eva@EvaC-laptop ~ $ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV730/M96 [Mobility Radeon HD 4650/5165]
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
06:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
06:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
06:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
06:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller

Really, thank you very much for your help!

[JeremyB]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7exlzch25ap6uha/b43.zip?dl=0

Get the file with a working internet and copy to flash drive/cd/dvd to get it to the linux mint computer

Extract the files to home directory
And then

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sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/b43

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sudo cp /b43/* /lib/firmware/b43

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sudo rmmod -f b43

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sudo rmmod -f ssb

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sudo modprobe b43

[Evinawer]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!

JeremyB you are my hero!! Thank you very much!! It worked!!! I'm writing just now from my installed Linux!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
I would like to invite you a beer!

I think now we can close the thread

[JeremyB]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!

JeremyB you are my hero!! Thank you very much!! It worked!!! I'm writing just now from my installed Linux!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
I would like to invite you a beer!

I think now we can close the thread :)

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