wlan0 - b43 - not being recognized (model - Broadcom BCM4311)
Here's the output after running wifi-menu
:
n180211: Could not set interface'wlan0' UP
Could not set interface wlan0 flags (UP): No such device
WEXT: Could not set interface'wlan0' UP
wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface
Here's me trying to run ip link set wlan0 UP
:
Error: either "dev" is duplicate, or "UP is a garbage"
ip link show
output for wlan0:
wlan0: <BROADCAST, MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
Measures taken:
1. Reloading the modules with rmmod b43
then modprobe b43
.
2. Deleting /lib/firmware/b43
re-downloading broadcom-wl
and reinstalling b43 from scratch with b43-fwcutter -w
inside the /usr/lib/firmware/
folder.
Here's the dmesg
output:
[ 8.338235] systemd-journald[142]: File /var/log/journal/a03a9102551b4394ab4bd1a237770fa5/system.journal corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing.
[ 20.724653] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 10)
[ 20.760062] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2 (G), Revision 8
[ 20.760087] b43-phy0: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, ID 0x2050, Revision 2, Version 0
[ 20.760090] b43-phy0 warning: 5 GHz band is unsupported on this PHY
[ 20.834639] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/ucode5.fw failed with error -2
[ 20.834686] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/ucode5.fw failed with error -2
[ 20.834735] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode5.fw failed with error -2
[ 20.834769] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode5.fw failed with error -2
[ 20.834776] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[ 20.834931] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
[ 20.835076] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
[ 85.300501] systemd-journald[142]: File /var/log/journal/a03a9102551b4394ab4bd1a237770fa5/user-1005.journal corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing.
Update:
I managed to get it working, but only temporarily. The drivers were installed inside of /lib/firmware/b43/b43
instead of /lib/firmware/b43/
.
The device is indeed recognized by iw and ip link 9. So there must be a problem with how it is interfacing with these other linux services that handle network devices. I am not an expert in Linux so I don't know where to go to correct the problem.
Now, upon using wifi-menu, I am returned with the following error output:
b43-phy2 ERROR: Microcode not responding.
Could not set interface wlan0 flags (UP) : No such device
nl80211: could not set interface wlan0 UP
WEXT: Could not set interface wlan0 UP
wlan0: failed to initialize driver interface
failed
ip link shows the device is there (and is indeed DOWN), and systemctl shows the bcm4311 modules are loaded and running. I tried ip link wlan0 up and got an identical message. I tried deleting and reinstalling the b43 folder with
b43-fwcutter broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
and running modprobe b43
then ip link set wlan0 up
. Same result.
dmesg
output when you domodprobe b43
(when not having the module loaded, of course)?dmesg
output for my b43 installation problem. Would you mind taking a look and giving further guidance? Thanks!/lib/firmware/b43
and/lib/firmware/b43-open
? How did you call theb43-fwcutter
tool?/lib/firmware/b43/b43
instead of/lib/firmware/b43/
. There is nob43-open.