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[Solved] Wifi Broadcom 4306 rev 3
Posted: 17 Oct 2018, 14:00
by kragoth
Hello,
i'm having some trouble to get my wireless adapter to work with Porteus 4.0 32 bits.
lspci shows that is a Broadcom 4306 rev 3, dmesg doesn't show anything related to wl or eth1. I tried the blacklisting guide HOWTO, blacklisting wl, but nothing changes. I see the network popup flicker a little when i press the wifi key on the laptop. I also tried installing the two packages found on USM by searching b43, separately and combined.
On Bodhi linux i got it working by installing firmware-b43-installer package.
The laptop is a compaq nx6110.
Thanks
Wifi Broadcom 4306 rev 3
Posted: 17 Oct 2018, 16:54
by Blaze
Hi
kragoth.
1) Download
b43-firmware-classic-5.100.138-1-noarch.xzm and copy to modules folder of Porteus.
2) Run in terminal these commands
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su
toor
echo 'blacklist wl' > /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf
echo 'blacklist wl' > /etc/modprobe.d/b43_blacklist.conf
reboot
3) After reboot open terminal and check
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su
toor
dmesg | grep -i b43
modprobe b43
and try your wifi connection.
If does not help, you can try to tweak these files and reboot Porteus:
/etc/modprobe.d/b43_blacklist.conf
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# wl module from Broadcom conflicts with the following modules:
#blacklist b43
#blacklist b43legacy
#blacklist b44
#blacklist bcma
#blacklist brcm80211
#blacklist brcmfmac
#blacklist brcmsmac
#blacklist ssb
blacklist wl
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# Default driver for supporting broadcom wifi chipsets is proprietary broadcom-sta (wl.ko).
# Please refer to 'Broadcom wifi under Porteus' HOWTO
# in case when you want to use the opensource drivers (b43/brcmsmac):
# http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1099
#
# Blacklist opensource drivers they wont interfere with wl.ko:
#blacklist ssb
#blacklist bcma
#blacklist b43
#blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist wl
Wifi Broadcom 4306 rev 3
Posted: 17 Oct 2018, 22:21
by kragoth
Thanks,
Now it works like charm.
[Solved] Wifi Broadcom 4306 rev 3
Posted: 22 Apr 2022, 11:43
by Farid
very very very thanks
after 100 test and two days its ok
all ways i tested
very important to do all steps with carefully
[Solved] Wifi Broadcom 4306 rev 3
Posted: 27 Mar 2024, 06:14
by Geoffrey
Blaze wrote: ↑17 Oct 2018, 16:54
1) Download
b43-firmware-classic-5.100.138-1-noarch.xzm and copy to modules folder of Porteus.
2) Run in terminal these commands
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su
toor
echo 'blacklist wl' > /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf
echo 'blacklist wl' > /etc/modprobe.d/b43_blacklist.conf
reboot
3) After reboot open terminal and check
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su
toor
dmesg | grep -i b43
modprobe b43
and try your wifi connection.
Worked a treat with ACER Aspire 5310, thanks.