[Solved] Wifi Broadcom 4306 rev 3

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kragoth
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[Solved] Wifi Broadcom 4306 rev 3

Post#1 by kragoth » 17 Oct 2018, 14:00

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
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Wifi Broadcom 4306 rev 3

Post#2 by Blaze » 17 Oct 2018, 16:54

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
/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf

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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
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kragoth
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Wifi Broadcom 4306 rev 3

Post#3 by kragoth » 17 Oct 2018, 22:21

Thanks,
Now it works like charm. :good:

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[Solved] Wifi Broadcom 4306 rev 3

Post#4 by Farid » 22 Apr 2022, 11:43

very very very thanks
after 100 test and two days its ok
all ways i tested
very important to do all steps with carefully

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[Solved] Wifi Broadcom 4306 rev 3

Post#5 by Geoffrey » 27 Mar 2024, 06:14

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.

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