Wireless doesn't work on a Broadcom BCM4312
Posted
by
Boderick
on Ask Ubuntu
See other posts from Ask Ubuntu
or by Boderick
Published on 2012-04-26T18:41:29Z
Indexed on
2012/06/17
9:23 UTC
Read the original article
Hit count: 300
As stated, I've just upgraded to 12.04 and my Dell Inspiron 1545 isn't recognising its wireless card and I was wondering if anybody could help?
Edit: Okay, so I found the wireless card by using
lspci -vvv
and it returned this: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- Kernel modules: ssb
lsmod
Module Size Used by
dm_crypt 22528 0
joydev 17393 0
dell_wmi 12601 0
sparse_keymap 13658 1 dell_wmi
dell_laptop 13671 0
dcdbas 14098 1 dell_laptop
psmouse 72919 0
uvcvideo 67203 0
serio_raw 13027 0
videodev 86588 1 uvcvideo
snd_hda_codec_idt 60251 1
mac_hid 13077 0
snd_hda_intel 32765 5
snd_hda_codec 109562 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_hda_codec
parport_pc 32114 0
rfcomm 38139 0
bnep 17830 2
ppdev 12849 0
snd_pcm 80845 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
bluetooth 158438 10 rfcomm,bnep
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_rawmidi 25424 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 28931 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
binfmt_misc 17292 1
snd 62064 18 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 14635 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14108 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
lp 17455 0
parport 40930 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
sky2 53628 0
ums_realtek 17920 0
uas 17699 0
i915 414603 3
wmi 18744 1 dell_wmi
drm_kms_helper 45466 1 i915
drm 197692 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 i915
video 19068 1 i915
usb_storage 39646 1 ums_realtek
ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:ae:24:71:45
inet addr:192.168.1.158 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::223:aeff:fe24:7145/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:14340 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10191 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:15403754 (15.4 MB) TX bytes:1262570 (1.2 MB)
Interrupt:18
ham0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 7a:79:05:2d:b0:f7
inet addr:5.45.176.247 Bcast:5.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::7879:5ff:fe2d:b0f7/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: 2620:9b::52d:b0f7/96 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1404 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:27480 (27.4 KB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:433 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:433 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:60051 (60.0 KB) TX bytes:60051 (60.0 KB)
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
ham0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
the results for sudo lshw -class network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 00:22:5f:77:1f:e6
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.100.82.38 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
resources: irq:17 memory:f69fc000-f69fffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 13
serial: 00:23:ae:24:71:45
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.30 duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.158 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:45 memory:f68fc000-f68fffff ioport:de00(size=256)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: ham0
serial: 7a:79:05:2d:b0:f7
size: 10Mbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=tun driverversion=1.6 duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=5.45.176.247 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Mbit/s
and the results of rfkill list all
0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
© Ask Ubuntu or respective owner