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#1 2016-05-22 05:41:03

christianoak
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[SOLVED] Broadcom Wi-fi not working, but ethernet does

Hello there, I am fairly new to BunsenLabs even though I've used Crunchbang before. I am also new to Linux.

I've installed BL on my ASUS X451M-VX2970, I mannaged to do that, don't know how, but i did. After installation, it couldn't see my HDD, so no linux boot, only BIOS. Fixed that. Now, the only problem I have, is with my WI-FI. I tried a lot of guides from this forum, nothing seems to work. I want to keep this OS so please help me with this problem.


Here is some info. Please tell me if you need more and sorry for my bad language.

########## wireless info START ##########

Report from: 22 May 2016 08:39 EEST +0300

Booted last: 22 May 2016 08:11 EEST +0300

Script from: 27 Sep 2015 00:34 UTC +0000

##### release ###########################

Distributor ID:	BunsenLabs
Description:	BunsenLabs GNU/Linux 8.4 (Hydrogen)
Release:	8.4
Codename:	bunsen-hydrogen

##### kernel ############################

Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2 (2016-04-08) x86_64 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Parameters: ro, initrd=/install/initrd.gz, quiet

##### desktop ###########################

Openbox

##### lspci #############################

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:6605]
	Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge

03:00.2 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 06)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:200f]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169

##### lsusb #############################

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f2:b404 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04ca:2006 Lite-On Technology Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 275d:0a29  
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:07e6 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

##### PCMCIA card info ##################

##### rfkill ############################

0: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

##### lsmod #############################

asus_nb_wmi            20664  0 
asus_wmi               22781  1 asus_nb_wmi
sparse_keymap          12818  1 asus_wmi
rfkill                 18867  2 bluetooth,asus_wmi
bcma                   37206  0 
video                  18096  2 i915,asus_wmi
wmi                    17339  1 asus_wmi

##### interfaces ########################

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp 
         

##### ifconfig ##########################

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr <MAC 'eth0' [IF]>  
          inet addr:192.168.0.181  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::<IP6 'eth0' [IF]>/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:24627 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:25219926 (24.0 MiB)  TX bytes:2280737 (2.1 MiB)

##### iwconfig ##########################

eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

##### route #############################

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0

##### resolv.conf #######################

nameserver 193.231.252.1
nameserver 192.168.0.1

##### network managers ##################

Installed:

	Wicd

Running:

	None found.

##### NetworkManager info ###############

NetworkManager is not installed (package "network-manager").

##### NetworkManager.state ##############

[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true

##### NetworkManager.conf ###############

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

##### NetworkManager profiles ###########

[[/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Wi-Fi connection 1]] (600 root)
[connection] id=Aiur-WFI | type=wifi | permissions=user:christianoak:;
[wifi] ssid=Aiur
[ipv4] method=auto
[ipv6] method=auto

##### iw reg get ########################

Region: Europe/Bucharest (based on set time zone)

country 00: DFS-UNSET
	(2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 20), (N/A)
	(2457 - 2482 @ 40), (6, 20), (N/A), PASSIVE-SCAN
	(2474 - 2494 @ 20), (6, 20), (N/A), NO-OFDM, PASSIVE-SCAN
	(5170 - 5250 @ 160), (6, 20), (N/A), PASSIVE-SCAN
	(5250 - 5330 @ 160), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, PASSIVE-SCAN
	(5490 - 5730 @ 160), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, PASSIVE-SCAN

##### iwlist channels ###################

eth0      no frequency information.

lo        no frequency information.

##### iwlist scan #######################

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

##### module infos ######################

[bcma]
filename:       /lib/modules/3.16.0-4-amd64/kernel/drivers/bcma/bcma.ko
license:        GPL
description:    Broadcom's specific AMBA driver
depends:        
intree:         Y
vermagic:       3.16.0-4-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions 

##### module parameters #################

##### /etc/modules ######################

##### modprobe options ##################

[/etc/modprobe.d/amd64-microcode-blacklist.conf]
blacklist microcode

[/etc/modprobe.d/intel-microcode-blacklist.conf]
blacklist microcode

[/etc/modprobe.d/modesetting.conf]
options cirrus modeset=1
options mgag200 modeset=1

##### rc.local ##########################

exit 0

##### pm-utils ##########################

find: `/etc/pm/*.d': No such file or directory

##### udev rules ########################

[/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules]
# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8136 (r8169)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="<MAC 'eth0' [IF]>", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

##### dmesg #############################

[    9.795859] bcma: bus0: Found chip with id 0xA886, rev 0x01 and package 0x08
[    9.795888] bcma: bus0: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800, rev 0x28, class 0x0)
[    9.795909] bcma: bus0: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812, rev 0x21, class 0x0)
[    9.795945] bcma: bus0: Core 2 found: PCIe (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x820, rev 0x16, class 0x0)
[    9.795989] bcma: bus0: Core 3 found: UNKNOWN (manuf 0x43B, id 0x368, rev 0x00, class 0x0)
[    9.811785] bcma: bus0: Bus registered
[   11.292364] bluetooth hci0: firmware: failed to load brcm/BCM43142A0-04ca-2006.hcd (-2)
[   11.292372] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
[   11.296254] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: patch brcm/BCM43142A0-04ca-2006.hcd not found
[   46.143668] r8169 0000:03:00.2: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtl_nic/rtl8402-1.fw
[   46.214695] r8169 0000:03:00.2 eth0: link down
[   46.214941] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   75.161944] r8169 0000:03:00.2 eth0: link down
[   75.162030] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   75.894384] r8169 0000:03:00.2 eth0: link down
[   75.894596] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   84.848260] r8169 0000:03:00.2 eth0: link up
[   84.848297] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[   97.864465] r8169 0000:03:00.2 eth0: link down (repeated 2 times)
[   97.864695] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   98.164506] r8169 0000:03:00.2 eth0: link down
[   98.164594] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   99.723899] r8169 0000:03:00.2 eth0: link up
[   99.723935] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

########## wireless info END ############

Last edited by christianoak (2016-05-23 19:54:43)

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#2 2016-05-22 08:06:07

Horizon_Brave
Operating System: Linux-Nettrix
Registered: 2015-10-18
Posts: 1,473

Re: [SOLVED] Broadcom Wi-fi not working, but ethernet does

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the issue is that your wlan0 is specified in the interfaces.d.  NetworkManager by default ignores anything that is set there. Either change the ifupdown managed =false and set it to true.... or  remove the wlan0 from the interfaces list .  So it looks like this:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Reboot, and see what crappens.
Again I could be off with this, but I think that may be the issue here...

Last edited by Horizon_Brave (2016-05-22 08:08:15)

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#3 2016-05-22 09:14:05

ohnonot
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Registered: 2015-09-29
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Re: [SOLVED] Broadcom Wi-fi not working, but ethernet does

^ yes, i heard that too, many times: networkmanager wants to sit on ALL your connections. don't specify them in /etc/network/interfaces*.

but then the script seems to say that you don't have networkmanager installed, but wicd instead?
changing between wicd and networkmanager is tricky, because they can't coexist even in a passive state.
so you have to purge one completely before (re)installing the other.

after all that, it could still be a firmware issue.
if you still have problems, please post what's requested here.

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#4 2016-05-22 14:12:42

christianoak
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Registered: 2016-05-22
Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Broadcom Wi-fi not working, but ethernet does

Thanks for the fast reply. I solved it by installing some broadcom drivers for my card, from the debian rep. Now seems to work fine. I hope it will remain that way. Thanks again

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#5 2016-05-23 06:23:36

ohnonot
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Re: [SOLVED] Broadcom Wi-fi not working, but ethernet does

please elaborate on your solution.
other users with similar problems will benefit.
life's a 2-way street.
then add [Solved] to the title (by editing post #1). thanks.

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#6 2016-05-23 19:53:05

christianoak
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Registered: 2016-05-22
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Re: [SOLVED] Broadcom Wi-fi not working, but ethernet does

I've installed the package for my card. I read about it on the official Debian Wiki.
https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx

Now it's working fine.

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#7 2016-05-23 19:59:45

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Re: [SOLVED] Broadcom Wi-fi not working, but ethernet does

This would probably be useful for other Broadcom users:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=39366

I have added "Broadcom" to the thread title to aid SEO wink

Para todos todo, para nosotros nada

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