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Compaq Presario V5000 no wired or wireless connection. 10.04LTS

Asked by mickyblag on 2010-10-28

Hi
Installed Ubuntu 10.04 along side WinXP. Didn't expect WLAN to work but cannot download any drivers as the wired LAN is shown disconnected. connection works under windows and LAN lights are on router and on laptop beside cable connection. Have looked at previous solutions for WLAN problems on this laptop and ran script advised there. Any help greatly appreciated. Results below:

sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'ound|irmware|eth|ath|wl|ipw|b43|witch|ndiswrapper'; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

user1@user1-laptop:~$ sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'ound|irmware|eth|ath|wl|ipw|b43|witch|ndiswrapper'; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
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  *-network:0
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:06:02.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
       resources: irq:21 memory:c0200000-c0201fff
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 6
       bus info: pci@0000:06:06.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:0f:b0:f7:14:30
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=128 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
       resources: irq:22 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:c0202000-c02020ff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 3
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:14:a5:76:2c:3e
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge [1002:5950] (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a3f]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a37]
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller [1002:4374]
00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller [1002:4375]
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller [1002:4373]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller [1002:4372] (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller [1002:4376]
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge [1002:4377]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge [1002:4371]
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller [1002:4370] (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem [0703]: ATI Technologies Inc SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller [1002:4378] (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) [1002:5955]
06:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
06:06.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 1/2/4GB Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
=========================================================
system Presario V5000 (ES272EA#ABU)
/0 bus 30AE
/0/0 memory 104KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technolog
/0/4/5 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/4/0 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/4/1 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/c memory 512MiB System Memory
/0/c/0 memory 256MiB DIMM DRAM Synchronous
/0/c/1 memory 256MiB DIMM DRAM Synchronous
/0/100 bridge RS480 Host Bridge
/0/100/1 bridge RS480 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1/5 display Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
/0/100/5 bridge RS480 PCI Bridge
/0/100/13 bus IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
/0/100/13.1 bus IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
/0/100/13.2 bus IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
/0/100/14 bus IXP SB400 SMBus Controller
/0/100/14.1 scsi0 storage IXP SB400 IDE Controller
/0/100/14.1/0 /dev/sda disk 40GB ST9402112A
/0/100/14.1/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 22GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/14.1/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 15GiB Extended partition
/0/100/14.1/0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 14GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/14.1/0/2/6 /dev/sda6 volume 689MiB Linux swap / Solaris partit
/0/100/14.1/1 /dev/cdrom disk DVDRAM GSA-4082N
/0/100/14.3 bridge IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
/0/100/14.4 bridge IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
/0/100/14.4/2 network BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g
/0/100/14.4/6 eth0 network RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
/0/100/14.5 multimedia IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller
/0/100/14.6 communication SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller
/0/101 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTranspo
/0/102 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
/0/103 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Control
/0/104 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneou
/0/1 scsi2 storage
/0/1/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk 4047MB Cruzer
/0/1/0.0.0/0 /dev/sdb disk 4047MB
/0/1/0.0.0/0/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 3859MiB Windows FAT volume
/1 power
/2 system
/3 wlan0 network Wireless interface
Linux user1-laptop 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00f7c70] f7c70
[ 0.020727] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 0.148651] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.155302] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 0.176711] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
[ 0.248409] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0
[ 0.248472] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 0.252991] Switching to clocksource acpi_pm
[ 0.306106] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.368279] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.456553] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.516323] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 0.516328] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.518783] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-32 processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
[ 0.519454] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.011997] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.302122] b43-pci-bridge 0000:06:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 1.360101] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:06:02.0
[ 1.716943] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xa000, 00:0f:b0:f7:14:30, IRQ 22
[ 1.786262] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R300_cp.bin
[ 1.993695] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
[ 8.419614] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 9.016146] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[ 9.225305] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 9.225397] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
[ 9.668114] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[ 9.699021] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43-open/ucode5.fw
[ 9.704288] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[ 9.704295] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
[ 9.704298] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
[ 9.706101] eth0: link down
[ 9.707410] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 9.756238] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[ 9.758365] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43-open/ucode5.fw
[ 9.765354] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[ 9.765360] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
[ 9.765364] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
[ 80.255502] usb-storage: device found at 2
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# replaced by b43 and ssb.
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf:blacklist twl4030_wdt
sudo: hwinfo: command not found
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... [ OK ]
user1@user1-laptop:~$ ifconfig eth0

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Status:: Solved

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Solved by:: mickyblag

Solved:: 2010-10-29

Last query:: 2010-10-29

Last reply:: 2010-10-29

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said on 2010-10-28:

You need some firmware for your Broadcom 4318 wireless chip.
You have two choices for a set of firmware: 1)From Broadcom (extracted from their driver by b43_fwcutter) or
2)from www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf the b43-open files.
The firmware gets put into /lib/firmware/b43 or .../b43-open
If both sets are present, the b43 will override and be used.
If you can get your wired connection to work, getting the Broadcom firmware is simply a matter of installing the b43_fwcutter package and accepting the download offer from the Broadcom site. This download will pick the appropriate driver to be the source of the firmware, and then the package install will run the cutter and make the /lib/firmware/b43... for you. If you cannot get the wired connection to work, from windows, you may download the b43_fwcutter package, and the appropriate driver from Broadcom or the wireless.kernel.org (see your error msgs). and do everything manually, Or, try the b43-open, which is claimed to for your chip. I run the b43-open on my 4306 and 4312 chips with no problems, but have no experience with the 4318.

Once the firmware is in place, you have a choice of drivers. The default driver Ubuntu uses, the b43 driver, should work as soon as you get the firmware (maybe disable/enable wireless with a R click on the network manager icon), or a reboot.
lsmod should show modules for ssb and b43, and not wl or ...sta.. After a clean install, things should just work with the firmware. If the b43 (open) driver has trouble with your chip, you may try the other broadcom drivers, but try the b43 first. The other drivers will start changing configurations to suppress the ssb and b43, and going back to the b43 will involve tracking down these configuration changes (blacklist in modprobe.d etc.) and removing them.
Good Luck