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Wireless not working hp Pavillion dv2210 with broadcom BCM4311

Asked by Nick Massey

ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ sudo lshw -C network;
[sudo] password for ngmassey:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for ngmassey:
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:b3000000-b3003fff
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ rfkill list;
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ sudo iwlist scanning;
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces;
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release;
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=natty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.04"
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ lspci -nn;
00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge [10de:02f0] (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 [10de:02fa] (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 [10de:02fe] (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 [10de:02f8] (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 [10de:02f9] (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge [10de:02ff] (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 [10de:027f] (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 [10de:027e] (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge [10de:02fc] (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge [10de:02fd] (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce Go 6150] [10de:0244] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge [10de:0270] (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge [10de:0260] (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus [10de:0264] (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor [0b40]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU [10de:0271] (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller [10de:026d] (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller [10de:026e] (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE [10de:0265] (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller [10de:0266] (rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge [10de:026f] (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio [10de:026c] (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller [10de:0269] (rev a3)
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]
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
05:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832]
05:09.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 19)
05:09.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 0a)
05:09.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 05)
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ lsusb;
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ sudo lshw -short;
H/W path Device Class Description
===================================================
                            system Notebook
/0 bus 30B5
/0/0 memory 96KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2
/0/4/5 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/1 memory 1GiB System Memory
/0/1/0 memory 512MiB SODIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz (1
/0/1/1 memory 512MiB SODIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz (1
/0/6 processor
/0/6/0 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/6/1 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/7 memory RAM memory
/0/0.1 memory RAM memory
/0/0.2 memory RAM memory
/0/0.3 memory RAM memory
/0/0.4 memory RAM memory
/0/0.5 memory RAM memory
/0/0.6 memory RAM memory
/0/0.7 memory RAM memory
/0/2 bridge C51 PCI Express Bridge
/0/2/0 network BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
/0/3 bridge C51 PCI Express Bridge
/0/5 display C51 [Geforce Go 6150]
/0/9 memory RAM memory
/0/a bridge MCP51 LPC Bridge
/0/a.1 bus MCP51 SMBus
/0/a.3 processor MCP51 PMU
/0/8 bus MCP51 USB Controller
/0/b.1 bus MCP51 USB Controller
/0/d scsi1 storage MCP51 IDE
/0/d/0.0.0 /dev/cdrom disk DVDRAM GSA-4084N
/0/e scsi2 storage MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
/0/e/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 120GB WDC WD1200BEVS-6
/0/e/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 54GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/e/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 6393MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/e/0.0.0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 50GiB Extended partition
/0/e/0.0.0/3/5 /dev/sda5 volume 48GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/e/0.0.0/3/6 /dev/sda6 volume 2407MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/10 bridge MCP51 PCI Bridge
/0/10/9 bus R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
/0/10/9.1 generic R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter
/0/10/9.2 generic R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
/0/10/9.3 generic xD-Picture Card Controller
/0/10.1 multimedia MCP51 High Definition Audio
/0/14 eth0 bridge MCP51 Ethernet Controller
/0/100 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Tec
/0/101 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
/0/102 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
/0/103 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Cont
/1 system
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'ound|irmware|eth|ath|wl|ipw|b43|witch';
Linux ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] DMI: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv2000 (RP408UA#ABA)/30B5, BIOS F.39 11/22/2007
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00f8780] f8780
[ 0.008000] Switch to broadcast mode on CPU1
[ 0.152436] Switch to broadcast mode on CPU0
[ 0.162698] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 0.172308] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
[ 0.624222] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.624225] HEST: Table not found.
[ 0.724095] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 0.727962] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #1
[ 0.727969] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
[ 0.737824] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
[ 0.777253] pci 0000:00:00.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.777283] pci 0000:00:00.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.992116] pci 0000:00:09.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.992175] pci 0000:00:09.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.992237] pci 0000:00:09.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 1.013804] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0
[ 1.036023] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[ 1.069307] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 1.422281] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.687565] i2c-core: driver [adp5520] using legacy suspend method
[ 1.687568] i2c-core: driver [adp5520] using legacy resume method
[ 1.700223] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.758203] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.760028] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.2.0 loaded
[ 1.760032] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 1.761754] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
[ 1.762518] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.983186] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.64.
[ 1.983460] forcedeth 0000:00:14.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LMAC] -> GSI 17 (level, high) -> IRQ 17
[ 1.983467] forcedeth 0000:00:14.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 2.504939] forcedeth 0000:00:14.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x5043 @ 1, addr 00:16:d3:1b:0c:a8
[ 2.504946] forcedeth 0000:00:14.0: highdma pwrctl lnktim desc-v3
[ 2.828245] sdhci-pci 0000:05:09.1: SDHCI controller found [1180:0822] (rev 19)
[ 2.829547] mmc0: no vmmc regulator found
[ 15.321080] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 15.587339] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
[ 15.643611] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 15.858776] wl 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LK2E] -> GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 19
[ 15.858783] wl 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 15.861343] eth%d: 5.100.82.38 driver failed with code 21
[ 17.556646] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[ 38.928025] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ iwconfig;
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf:blacklist b43
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf:blacklist b43legacy
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# replaced by b43 and ssb.
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*;
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf:# Warning: This file is autogenerated by bcmwl. All changes to this file will be lost.
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf:blacklist twl4030_wdt
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ sudo hwinfo --netcard ;
> hal.1: read hal dataprocess 1719: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file dbus-errors.c line 280.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
libhal.c 3483 : Error unsubscribing to signals, error=The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
29: PCI 14.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  Unique ID: rBUF.ZJ+MdXCWtO7
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:14.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "nVidia MCP51 Ethernet Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x0269 "MCP51 Ethernet Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x30b5
  Revision: 0xa3
  Driver: "forcedeth"
  Driver Modules: "forcedeth"
  Device File: eth0
  Memory Range: 0xb0007000-0xb0007fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x30b8-0x30bf (rw)
  IRQ: 17 (133 events)
  HW Address: 00:16:d3:1b:0c:a8
  Link detected: yes
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000269sv0000103Csd000030B5bc06sc80i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: forcedeth is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe forcedeth"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

34: PCI 100.0: 0280 Network controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  Unique ID: VCu0.5D2YRgUfek7
  Parent ID: _Znp.vb_wK0zCCz5
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4311 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
  Device: pci 0x4311 "BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN"
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x1363 "BCM4311 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller"
  Revision: 0x01
  Memory Range: 0xb3000000-0xb3003fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 19 (no events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004311sv0000103Csd00001363bc02sc80i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: ssb is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ssb"
  Driver Info #1:
    Driver Status: wl is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe wl"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #16 (PCI bridge)
ngmassey@ngmassey-HP-Pavilion-dv2000-RP408UA-ABA:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
 * Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not enable again some interfaces
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#2

that link is a mixed up mumbo jumbo of instructions. extremely difficult to read and understand.

SOOOOOO, do the following instead.

press CTL+ALT+T to get into terminal and type

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

enter your password when prompted. it will not be displayed on the screen.

your broadcomm wifi should work now.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#3

I am pretty sure that your wireless adapter is experiencing the following Broadcom driver bug in Ubuntu 11.04:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/732677

As I understand it, there are 2 possible solutions for the BCM4311 wireless problem in Ubuntu 11.04:

1) installing b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43-installer as described here:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/157369

or

2) manually installing bcmwl-kernel-source (5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu5) from maverick (Ubuntu 10.10) using gdebi

Solution 2 is described here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/732677/comments/23

I suggest trying solution 2.

Then reboot your PC and run the following commands to enable your wireless adapter:

rfkill unblock all
sudo rfkill unblock all

Then retest wireless using NetworkManager.

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