STA driver not can not activate bcm4311 wireless

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

This solves my problem nicely.

I am on 11.04 beta 2 on Dell Inspiron 6400, also BCM4311:

uga@anna-laptop:~$ lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)

'sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer' did not solve my problem. I still don't have any wireless.

According to the "Addition Drivers" thingy I have "Broadcom STA wireless driver" and "This driver is activated and currently in use"

Any workarounds?

My bad(again...): now I hope it's what I forgot the first time I tried that
b43; the second time(that worked) I had to first
1. remove STA
2. then reboot,
3. install b43(with that command)
4. reboot
5. and switch on wireless(via hard keys);

I think it is important that after step 4 I could read in Network Manager's
left click that my wireless was "turn off by hardware switch".

Hope this helps,
Catalin

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:50 AM, uga <email address hidden> wrote:

> I am on 11.04 beta 2 on Dell Inspiron 6400, also BCM4311:
>
> uga@anna-laptop:~$ lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0
> 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
> 0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g
> WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
>
> 'sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer' did not solve my problem.
> I still don't have any wireless.
>
> According to the "Addition Drivers" thingy I have "Broadcom STA wireless
> driver" and "This driver is activated and currently in use"
>
> Any workarounds?
>
>

Thanks, Ochiuz! It worked. By the way, I didn't have to use the hard keys.

Best,

Yegor

That worked for me. But there's still a problem: after my reboot it detected the wireless adapter and I could access Internet. But but if I used hard keys (Alt F2) to toggle wireless adapter off, I could not restart it by pressing Alt F2 again, as expected. The only way to restart the wireless adapter was to reboot again. That worked consistently.

Hi willens,

I just tried it on my system and you are right: the hardware switch doesn't
do toogle!
Yet: I could do toogle by un/checking "Enable wireless" from Network
Manager.
Is there no "Enable wireless" in your Network Manager?

Hi --

Thanks for your message.

In my Network Manager, sometimes "Enable Wireless" s is grayed out and sometimes it is there. However, even when it is there, it doesn't seem to do anything except be able to be unchecked and rechecked. It doesn't turn the wireless back on.

And just now, even worse, I let some automatic updates happen and now the wireless won't go back on at all, even after several reboots. I checked the status of the STA driver and the drivers screen said it was now not activated, so a went back with a wired connection and re-downloaded it and reactivated it, but that didn't help. I finally went back and uninstalled the proprietary driver for STA 43xx and reinstalled it from Terminal as a previous post suggested, which worked before and it worked this time, but what a hassle. Not for the faint of heart or Ubuntu newbies like me.. So far, nothing else has resolved the wireless switching problem for me with 11.04 on this machine. And I guess I won't be using the keyboard toggle to turn wireless off again, at least until someone figures this out and fixes the problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Ochiuz Catalin
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 1:03 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Bug 760920] Re: STA driver not can not activate bcm4311 wireless

Hi willens,

I just tried it on my system and you are right: the hardware switch doesn't do toogle!
Yet: I could do toogle by un/checking "Enable wireless" from Network Manager.
Is there no "Enable wireless" in your Network Manager?

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Title:
  STA driver not can not activate bcm4311 wireless

Status in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: software-center

  Dell inspiron 1501; bcm4311; AMD Turion(tm 64 X2 TL-58; 1.8 GiB;
  kernel 2.6.38-8-generic; Natty desktop amd64;dual boot with Lynx LTS

  On fresh install netwrk manager said that wireless is disabled by
  hardware switch; after installing STA driver (on wired connection)
  noting is mentioned in network manager about wireless; can not switch
  it on from buttons either.

  On Lynx I had to folow
  http://polach.cc/broadcom-wifi-adapter-wpa-access-fix-on-ubuntu-ii
  to make wireless work, but on Natty that doesn't work either.
  I will need wireless. :(

  P.S.: This ended up in software-center by mistake... sorry if this is
  not the right place for it.

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