[SOLVED] Firmware Missing:Broadcom BCM4318 AirForce One 54g

[bracca]

Hi,

I was so excited to get b43 to work on a laptop with the help of users on this forum. Thank you.

I like Linux Mint so much, I am putting it on a Dell Dimension 8400. I have installed an Asus PCI Wifi card that worked fine in Windows. Please tell me how to get it to work. Below are a couple of commands ouputs:

Thank you,
Bracca

mint@mint ~ $ lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82925X/XE Memory Controller Hub [8086:2584] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 8400 [1028:0177]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82925X/XE PCI Express Root Port [8086:2585] (rev 04)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2660] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2662] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 [8086:2658] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 8400 [1028:0177]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 [8086:2659] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 8400 [1028:0177]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 [8086:265a] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 8400 [1028:0177]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 [8086:265b] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 8400 [1028:0177]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:265c] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 8400 [1028:0177]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:266e] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 8400 [1028:0177]
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:2640] (rev 03)
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller [8086:266f] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 8400 [1028:0177]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller [8086:2652] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 8400 [1028:0177]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:266a] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 8400 [1028:0177]
Kernel modules: i2c-i801
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc R423 UK [Radeon X800SE (PCIE)] [1002:554b]
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:0302]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb
01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R423 UK (PCIE) [X800 SE] (Secondary) [1002:556b]
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:0303]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 8400 [1028:0177]
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3
04:01.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. WL-138G v2 / WL-138gE / WL-100gE [1043:100f]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb

mint@mint ~ $ inxi -Fc 0
System: Host mint Kernel 3.0.0-12-generic i686 (32 bit) Desktop Gnome Distro Linux Mint 12 Lisa
Machine: System Dell product Dimension 8400
Mobo Dell model 0J3492 Bios Dell version A02 date 08/23/2004
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 CPU (-UP-) cache 1024 KB flags (sse sse2 sse3) clocked at 2992.311 MHz
Graphics: Card: ATI R423 UK [Radeon X800SE (PCIE)]
X.Org 1.10.4 drivers ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,vesa Resolution 1280x1024@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Gallium 0.4 on ATI R423 GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.11
Audio: Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH Sound: ALSA v: 1.0.24
Network: Card-1 Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express driver tg3
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:11:11:4c:26:0c
Card-2 Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller driver b43-pci-bridge
IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Drives: HDD Total Size: 162.0GB (0.2% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD1600JD 160.0GB
2: USB /dev/sdb v3.3.9.1 2.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 501M used: 106M (22%) fs: overlayfs ID:swap-1 size: 1.07GB used: 0.09GB (9%) fs: swap
Sensors: Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.
Info: Processes 145 Uptime 12 min Memory 323.6/1000.5MB Client Shell inxi 1.7.7

[bracca]

By the way "Additional Drivers" didn't find anything: "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system."

[remoulder]

Putting bcm4318 in the Search box top right is recommended, it brings up links such as http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 18#p525259

[Detonate]

I finally got my BCM4318 working, and this is how I did it.

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
tar xf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta_mimo.o
modprobe b43

Also edit the etc/modules file and add b43 to make sure the module gets loaded at boot.

Restart the computer.

[bracca]

I copied b43 into /lib/firmware and AFTER reboot it worked. thank you.

[JetmechAl]

I did the code line by line.
I had tried just using other suggestion of doing the "sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer"
which didn't work for me on fresh install 17.2.
May I add for the newest that copying a line from a browser is done with the usual ctrl key + c key after highlighting the text.
Pasting in the terminal is done with ctrl key + shift key + v key.
And since i'm here : copying from a terminal window is done by highlighting the text and doing ctrl key + shift key + c key.
Then you can paste anywhere (but a terminal window but then ---- now you know how to paste in a terminal window)
by using ctrl key + v key.

I tried doing the last line mode probe but it did not run until i added sudo in front of the code and it just never seemed to complete.

To edit the module file use sudo gedit in a terminal window to start gedit with root privileges and then open ect/modules file and add a "b43" below
"lp" and save.

when I restarted my wifi light on my laptop came on for the first time and just had to go into network to connect to my
home network and i could also finally see all the other wifi networks in my area.

Thank you so much for this different insight.