Howto: Broadcom on Statler Alpha1

rich · 2010-03-20 18:58:45

This Guide is for the more common Broadcom Wireless firmware.

*Note* For Broadcom Sta (4311, 4312, 4313, 4321, 4322 ) See this guide on the Debian Wiki:
http://wiki.debian.org/wl#Squeeze

At the moment Broadcom wireless firmware doesn't come preinstalled on the first Alpha, so here is a quicky guide for those who want to use it.

Install what you need

sudo aptitude install b43-fwcutter wireless-tools

Once fwcutter is installed you will be asked if you want to download and install the firmware, choose "YES"

Next up you need to load the module:

sudo modprobe b43

Switch wireless on:
You may need to use a key combination (Fn+F?) or a physical switch on your laptop case to activate the card physically. My Acer has a button with an orange light.

Next up you need to bring the card up:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

And have a quick scan for essids: (if your card supports scanning a list of essids will scroll by. Sometimes you need to give the card a few seconds to get warmed up smile )

sudo iwlist scanning

Now just go to the network manager applet and click on your essid

This is just a quick basic guide and there are a few Broadcom cards that can cause a few problems (see the link at the top of this post), but this way covers most of them.

Last edited by rich (2010-04-10 14:32:45)

charlie01 · 2010-03-20 23:14:40

It didnt read my wireless card on the live CD,,But i decided to install anyways and go from there.
During the install it found my card ,,and said i was missing the intel 3945-2 files,,From there i downloaded the driver and put it on a flash drive and put it on my computer.From there it gives you the option to auto config,,which didnt work,,Then i did a manual config which was quite easy.It asked for the net address/gateway and name of the wireless.It worked.

I was really worried about the wireless,,But it panned out for me.

What i would recommend to anyone that reads this that has wireless they want to install during install is.
Write down the info of your card adress/gateway/passwords/and any other usefull info that you might need to manually install.

I hope this is usefull to someone.

I must admit the thought of a text install spooked me,,,But it was quite easy.

I

FiniteStateMachine · 2010-03-20 23:16:14

charlie01 wrote:

It didnt read my wireless card on the live CD,,But i decided to install anyways and go from there.
During the install it found my card ,,and said i was missing the intel 3945-2 files,,From there i downloaded the driver and put it on a flash drive and put it on my computer.From there it gives you the option to auto config,,which didnt work,,Then i did a manual config which was quite easy.It asked for the net address/gateway and name of the wireless.It worked.
I was really worried about the wireless,,But it panned out for me.
What i would recommend to anyone that reads this that has wireless they want to install during install is.
Write down the info of your card adress/gateway/passwords/and any other usefull info that you might need to manually install.
I hope this is usefull to someone.
I must admit the thought of a text install spooked me,,,But it was quite easy.
I

On the topic of text install, I think a lot of people are a bit afraid of it. But its well thought out and quite simple.

charlie01 · 2010-03-20 23:27:49

blackbinary wrote:

charlie01 wrote:
It didnt read my wireless card on the live CD,,But i decided to install anyways and go from there.
During the install it found my card ,,and said i was missing the intel 3945-2 files,,From there i downloaded the driver and put it on a flash drive and put it on my computer.From there it gives you the option to auto config,,which didnt work,,Then i did a manual config which was quite easy.It asked for the net address/gateway and name of the wireless.It worked.
I was really worried about the wireless,,But it panned out for me.
What i would recommend to anyone that reads this that has wireless they want to install during install is.
Write down the info of your card adress/gateway/passwords/and any other usefull info that you might need to manually install.
I hope this is usefull to someone.
I must admit the thought of a text install spooked me,,,But it was quite easy.
On the topic of text install, I think a lot of people are a bit afraid of it. But its well thought out and quite simple.

I agree,,The one thing i noticed is there wasnt an option to choose what ext you wanted to use,,Or i missed it completely,,It installed ext3,,,which im fine with....Now i just need to figure out the basics like updating.

FiniteStateMachine · 2010-03-20 23:46:17

charlie01 wrote:

I agree,,The one thing i noticed is there wasnt an option to choose what ext you wanted to use,,Or i missed it completely,,It installed ext3,,,which im fine with....Now i just need to figure out the basics like updating.

Actually there is. When you get to the parition manager, you don't select 'use full disk' you select 'manual'
Then you can choose your own partitions, including using ext4 (or something more exotic if you felt like it)

pvsage · 2010-03-22 18:18:58

richs-lxh wrote:

At the moment Broadcom wireless firmware doesn't come preinstalled on the first Alpha, so here is a quicky guide for those who want to use it.
sudo aptitude install b43-fwcutter wireless-tools

Actually all I needed with Statler Openbox was b43-fwcutter followed by a reboot. Badda bing!

corenominal · 2010-03-22 19:01:03

pvsage wrote:

Actually all I needed with Statler Openbox was b43-fwcutter followed by a reboot. Badda bing!

Good stuff, I am glad you managed to get it working. Can I ask, when you installed the b43-fwcutter package, did you have to agree to a EULA before the installation would proceed?

pvsage · 2010-03-22 20:07:53

I do not recall seeing an EULA.

achristoffersen · 2010-03-22 21:43:29

this works a treat on my acer aspire one (THANKS). I think the only REALLY important thing now is to get the 3g wireless to work as well. I worked fine under 8.10, but then was unable to connect in 9.04. It would be a dream if statler could sprinkle some magic dust on my mobile broadband / 3g card
unfortunately I dont know what to ask for as lspci -vvnn gives me no clue as to what controls the 3g.

Cheers

tshann · 2010-03-26 07:43:05

Hi All,

Well, this did work, but at bootup, still had to type the last 3 commands in terminal and then click on wicd to get it to actually re-connect. In other words, it wouldn't auto connect @ boot-up.

So as a work-around, I did the following:

Created a script called wireless.sh which I put in ~/bin

#! bin bash
echo <mypassword> | sudo -S modprobe b43
echo <mypassword> | sudo -S ifconfig wlan0 up
echo <mypassword> | sudo -S iwlist scanning

made it executable by typing in "sudo chmod +x wireless.sh"

Then I put the following code:

# Start my wireless script
sh ~/bin/wireless.sh

In the ~/.config/xfce4/autostart.sh file

And now, when she boots up, it says disconnected for a few seconds, and then after a moment or two, it auto connects to my preferred wireless network. Certainly not the elegant workaround, but this is what worked for one of my lappies running statler x64 with a broadcom wireless.
If someone has a better, simpler solution, love to hear it. smile

Peace

WoodCAT · 2010-03-27 06:12:45

Thanks richs-lxh!

I just boot up my Compaq Presario laptop from LiveCD. And was really not sure how to get Wifi going on my Linksys pcmcia card, but your guide worked 100%! Without reboot too.

So I can report that Linksys WPC54G ver 3 works just fine on Statler

semog · 2010-03-28 18:00:11

on my 2 laptops i try this way on booth but only work on 1
the other has a broadcom 4322 that need to use a broadcom-sta driver but i install him and nothing hapends someone can say me how to install it and make him work?

i try install via apt-get synaptic and build from source but i can make him know my wireless

on boot this hapends before load the OS

PLL Unknown for device 4322
PMV resource config Unknown

this is a dell 1510 wireless b/g/n from my dell

so can someone help me?

rich · 2010-03-28 21:54:05

semog wrote:

on my 2 laptops i try this way on booth but only work on 1
the other has a broadcom 4322 that need to use a broadcom-sta driver but i install him and nothing hapends someone can say me how to install it and make him work?
i try install via apt-get synaptic and build from source but i can make him know my wireless
on boot this hapends before load the OS
PLL Unknown for device 4322
PMV resource config Unknown
this is a dell 1510 wireless b/g/n from my dell
so can someone help me?

For the Broadcom Sta driver, read this guide from the Debian Wiki
http://wiki.debian.org/wl#Squeeze

semog · 2010-03-29 16:48:05

thanks Richs-lxh

i try on google but i can find nothing like this i try other ways that i find on net but dosent work
this work fine i dont do the 4 step because i pass by mistaken but in the end work all fine

thanks one more time

rich · 2010-03-29 20:05:48

semog wrote:

thanks Richs-lxh
i try on google but i can find nothing like this i try other ways that i find on net but dosent work
this work fine i dont do the 4 step because i pass by mistaken but in the end work all fine
thanks one more time

No problem, glad you got it working smile

charlie01 · 2010-04-10 13:33:05

I just installed Statler XFCE amd 64 on my acer,,I installed fwcutter and i thought it worked,,It sees all my wireless signals but Ice weasel still wont work,,,Any Ideas on what i missed.

I did it threw synaptic.

rizzo · 2010-04-10 13:39:57

charlie01 wrote:

I just installed Statler XFCE amd 64 on my acer,,I installed fwcutter and i thought it worked,,It sees all my wireless signals but Ice weasel still wont work,,,Any Ideas on what i missed.

Try disabling ipv6 in iceweasel

snowpine · 2010-04-10 13:45:59

charlie01 wrote:

I just installed Statler XFCE amd 64 on my acer,,I installed fwcutter and i thought it worked,,It sees all my wireless signals but Ice weasel still wont work,,,Any Ideas on what i missed.
I did it threw synaptic.

Which Broadcom card does your Acer have? Did you read this part (if applicable to your card):

For Broadcom Sta (4311, 4312, 4313, 4321, 4322 ) See this guide on the Debian Wiki:
http://wiki.debian.org/wl#Squeeze

charlie01 · 2010-04-10 13:51:48

snowpine wrote:

charlie01 wrote:
I just installed Statler XFCE amd 64 on my acer,,I installed fwcutter and i thought it worked,,It sees all my wireless signals but Ice weasel still wont work,,,Any Ideas on what i missed.
I did it threw synaptic.
Which Broadcom card does your Acer have? Did you read this part (if applicable to your card):
For Broadcom Sta (4311, 4312, 4313, 4321, 4322 ) See this guide on the Debian Wiki:
http://wiki.debian.org/wl#Squeeze

Its the B43 ,,,Thank you,,I missed it.

charlie01 · 2010-04-10 13:54:30

omns wrote:

charlie01 wrote:
I just installed Statler XFCE amd 64 on my acer,,I installed fwcutter and i thought it worked,,It sees all my wireless signals but Ice weasel still wont work,,,Any Ideas on what i missed.
Try disabling ipv6 in iceweasel

Ill try this first,,Im not exactly sure on how to do this.

Snow pine showed me a link that i missed,,so i should be able to get it to work with one of those ways.

Thank you

anonymous · 2010-04-10 13:56:17

In Iceweasel, type in about:config and press enter. Then search for "network.dns.disableIPv6" and set it to True.

snowpine · 2010-04-10 13:59:13

charlie01 wrote:

snowpine wrote:
charlie01 wrote:
I just installed Statler XFCE amd 64 on my acer,,I installed fwcutter and i thought it worked,,It sees all my wireless signals but Ice weasel still wont work,,,Any Ideas on what i missed.
I did it threw synaptic.
Which Broadcom card does your Acer have? Did you read this part (if applicable to your card):
For Broadcom Sta (4311, 4312, 4313, 4321, 4322 ) See this guide on the Debian Wiki:
http://wiki.debian.org/wl#Squeeze
Its the B43 ,,,Thank you,,I missed it.

To be clear, only click the link if you have one of these specific cards: 4311, 4312, 4313, 4321, 4322

rich · 2010-04-10 14:27:38

anonymous wrote:

In Iceweasel, type in about:config and press enter. Then search for "network.dns.disableIPv6" and set it to True.

Also to permanently disable IpV6 for all connections you can edit the aliases.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/aliases.conf

Then uncomment iPv6 line and turn it off :

#alias net-pf-10 ipv6

So that the network protocols looks like this:

# network protocols ##########################################################
# alias net-pf-1 unix
# alias net-pf-2 ipv4
# alias net-pf-3 ax25
# alias net-pf-4 ipx
# alias net-pf-5 appletalk
# alias net-pf-6 netrom
# 7 BRIDGE
# alias net-pf-8 atm
# alias net-pf-9 x25
alias net-pf-10 ipv6 off
# alias net-pf-11 rose
# alias net-pf-12 decnet

rich · 2010-04-10 14:34:24

charlie01 wrote:

snowpine wrote:
charlie01 wrote:
I just installed Statler XFCE amd 64 on my acer,,I installed fwcutter and i thought it worked,,It sees all my wireless signals but Ice weasel still wont work,,,Any Ideas on what i missed.
I did it threw synaptic.
Which Broadcom card does your Acer have? Did you read this part (if applicable to your card):
For Broadcom Sta (4311, 4312, 4313, 4321, 4322 ) See this guide on the Debian Wiki:
http://wiki.debian.org/wl#Squeeze
Its the B43 ,,,Thank you,,I missed it.

Thanks charlie01, I just tidied up the first post to make that link stand out a bit better. smile

charlie01 · 2010-04-11 00:37:29

richs-lxh wrote:

charlie01 wrote:
snowpine wrote:
Which Broadcom card does your Acer have? Did you read this part (if applicable to your card):
Its the B43 ,,,Thank you,,I missed it.
Thanks charlie01, I just tidied up the first post to make that link stand out a bit better.

I tried the b43 method in the link with no success and also the ipv6 to true and still cant get it to connect in iceweasel..I had Ubuntu installed previous and checked the driver i had installed in it and it said b43, I didnt check to see if its the Legacy or XX model.

Is there a command i can run to see exactly what driver i need ?
Or what card it is,My memory says its something like sudo lspcia .

Ill have to google it.

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