wireless weirdness (Solved)

bennisixx · 2012-05-12 12:59:35

a weird one here, I have been running statler for a while, numerous installs, everything fine. But Waldorf wont let me connect wirelessly. Here is the deal, I have an acer aspire one netbook. #! statler works out the box, but waldorf, no network. I have hooked up wired and installed every wireless package that I have in statler and no go. I have also installed it on my bosses sons netbook ( identical to mine,) and it works.

You think this could be a hardware issue? Or a bad download? I hate asking these questions as they are so obscure, but I really want to run waldorf

Last edited by bennisixx (2012-08-06 04:00:59)

Ragnarok · 2012-05-12 15:08:03

Please post the output of

lspci

Last edited by Ragnarok (2012-05-12 15:11:23)

bennisixx · 2012-05-12 15:10:08

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

that is posted in statler I dont have waldorf instaled anymore at the moment.....Thank you

Last edited by bennisixx (2012-05-12 15:11:16)

xaos52 · 2012-05-12 15:13:52

Post

lspci -n

output please.

Ragnarok · 2012-05-12 15:29:04

It looks like you have the Broadcom BCM4313. I'm not familiar with this chipset, but I'm certain I've seen other members with it.

After a quick google search, it seems the only drivers that support this chipset are wl/sta (proprietary) and brcm80211.
Here's some information about both of them: http://wiki.debian.org/wl, http://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

bennisixx · 2012-05-12 15:38:10

re installed waldorf
here is lspci - n

00:00.0 0600: 8086:a010
00:02.0 0300: 8086:a011
00:02.1 0380: 8086:a012
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 02)
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 02)
00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 02)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 02)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev e2)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:27bc (rev 02)
00:1f.2 0106: 8086:27c1 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 02)
01:00.0 0200: 1969:2060 (rev c1)
02:00.0 0280: 14e4:4727 (rev 01)

@ ragnarok, It is strange since statler works no problem, so does almost every distro I have put on this computer and an identical netbook works fine as well

Ragnarok · 2012-05-12 15:50:10

bennisixx wrote:

@ ragnarok, It is strange since statler works no problem, so does almost every distro I have put on this computer and an identical netbook works fine as well

I believe that's because brcm80211 has been included in the kernel since 2.6.37.

Next time you try out Waldorf, try following the steps on this page: http://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211#Wheezy

Edit: Seems Linux kernels 3.0-3.2 have issues with brcmsmac.
You can try blacklisting bcma and see if that works. Try this:

sudo modprobe -r bcma ; sudo modprobe brcmsmac

If that fixed it, you can blacklist bcma by adding this to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:

blacklist bcma

Last edited by Ragnarok (2012-05-18 10:13:10)

bennisixx · 2012-08-06 03:36:31

Dude it's been months, but I just reinstalled Waldorf and you fixed me up thank you thank you!!!!!

edit: along with blacklisting bcma

i had to remove blacklist brcmsmac from /etc/modprbe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf

works great thanks again

Last edited by bennisixx (2012-08-06 16:06:08)

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