Public bug reported:
I'm using a Dell Inspiron m101z which was certified for use with both
Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10. Previously the Broadcom chipset for wireless
used the proprietary drivers, but this card is now apparently
blacklisted and presumably covered by the new mac80211 drivers. The
card does not show up as available, but is idenfied by lspci.
$ lspci | grep Broadcom
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless
LAN Controller (rev 01)
Checking dmesg I can see that the firmware fails to load because the
specific filename is not present:
$ dmesg | grep brcm
[ 11.184346] brcm80211: module is from the staging directory, the quality is
unknown, you have been warned.
[ 11.192457] brcm80211 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ
17
[ 11.192468] brcm80211 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 11.884891] brcm80211: fail to load firmware brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
[ 11.884897] brcm80211: Failed to find firmware usually in /lib/firmware/brcm
[ 11.884942] brcm80211 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 11.884962] brcm80211: wl_pci_probe: wl_attach failed!
I have tried installing the proprietary driver, but receive a message
that my card is blacklisted:
$ jockey-text --list
kmod:wl - Broadcom STA wireless driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
[auto-install]
xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled,
Not in use)
$ jockey-text --enable=kmod:wl
Additional Drivers
Searching for available drivers...
Sorry, the installation of this driver failed.
Please have a look at the log file for details.: /var/log/jockey.log
I installed both b43-fwcutter and b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43-installer:
$ dpkg -l b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii b43-fwcutter 1:013-3 Utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmwar
ii firmware-b43-i 4.150.10.5-5 Installer package for firmware for the b43 d
The firmware-b43-installer package does install firmware, but none of the .fw
files has the filename the system is looking for:
$ ls -l /lib/firmware/brcm/
total 368
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269595 2010-11-18 21:20 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1604 2010-11-18 21:20 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97376 2010-11-18 21:20 bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180 2010-11-18 21:20 bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw
I tried making a symlink from bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw and
bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw (separately) to bcm43xx-0.fw, but that just
makes the system hang on boot.
Anyway, I'm out of ideas... This may just be a point-in-time bug, but I
figured it should be reported as this is a common chipset and a
previously certified device.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: linux-generic (not installed)
Regression: Yes
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic-pae 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic-pae i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC259 Analog [ALC259 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: pgoodall 1386 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xd0400000 irq 16'
Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC259'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,10280470,00100100'
Controls : 13
Simple ctrls : 8
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xd0110000 irq 19'
Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
Controls : 4
Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Date: Tue Jan 25 10:56:53 2011
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=ba30a010-5c2a-48b9-a4f8-119ec71d3e8e
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110120)
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1120
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-12-generic-pae
root=UUID=d550288a-2fd0-48d7-9506-55b5736b8223 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.37-12-generic-pae N/A
linux-backports-modules-2.6.37-12-generic-pae N/A
linux-firmware 1.46
SourcePackage: linux
StagingDrivers: brcm80211
Title: [STAGING]
dmi.bios.date: 07/23/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: X24
dmi.board.asset.tag: 1234567890
dmi.board.name: 0102BK
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: X24
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: X24
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrX24:bd07/23/2010:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1120:pvrX24:rvnDellInc.:rn0102BK:rvrX24:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrX24:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1120
dmi.product.version: X24
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 kernel-net natty needs-upstream-testing
regression-release staging
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Title:
[STAGING] Broadcom 4313 firmware fails to load because it is not
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