wireless not working on Compaq V6000 and Ubuntu 12.04.1

Asked by Colin Opie

Intalled Ubuntu 12.04.1 as a new installation after using 10.04.4 Wireless not working at all.

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Colin Opie (colin-opie) said :
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Additional drivers reports the Broadcom STA driver as activated and in use.
 This package contains Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driverfor use with Broadcom's BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-, BCM4321-,BCM4322-, BCM43224-, and BCM43225-, BCM43227- and BCM43228-basedhardware.

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Colin Opie (colin-opie) said :
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sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo rfkill list

returns

  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:d6000000-d6003fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: PRO/100 VE Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci@0000:05:08.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:1b:24:0e:01:92
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/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=e100 driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.3 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:20 memory:d8000000-d8000fff ioport:4000(size=64)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux colin-Presario-V6000-GF814EA-ABU 3.2.0-29-generic-pae #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:25:43 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Colin Opie (colin-opie) said :
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Thanks for the link, but it just takes me through getting a broadcom driver, mine is already loaded and additions drivers reports that it's activated and currently in use - but I still don't have any wireless access

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Can you reboot and give the output of:

dmesg | grep -i firm; dpkg -l | grep bcm

Thanks

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Colin Opie (colin-opie) said :
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Rebooted and comand returns -

[ 0.186349] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 0.293284] pci 0000:05:08.0: Firmware left e100 interrupts enabled; disabling
ii bcmwl-kernel-source 5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu6.1 Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source
ii libcmis-0.2-0 0.1.0-1 CMIS protocol client library

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Best Ubfan (ubfan1) said :
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Bug 732677 is still a problem with the 4311 chips.
Remove all the STA drivers you added, the b43 driver works fine, but you have to give it firmware, which is available by installing EITHER the b43-fwcutter package (for the Broadcom firmware), OR the firmware-b43-installer (the open source firmware). Network manager should start picking up access points as soon as the firmware is installed, reboot if it doesn't. Any problems, are probably a result of leftover STA drivers suppressing the b43 driver, so check for any exact lines "blacklist b43" in all files in directory /etc/modprobe.d. Check the modules loaded with
lsmod
you should see b43 and ssb, and NOT wl

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Did you go into the additional drivers and enable the STA driver?

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Colin Opie (colin-opie) said :
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I went to Additional drivers deactivated the STA driver. I had already installed the firmware-b43-installer, but I did it again and it said no changes. Rebooted the system and the wireless works. Many thanks

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Colin Opie (colin-opie) said :
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Thanks Ubfan, that solved my question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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That's what the guide says to do, that's why I gave the guide. I suggest you reread i...

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Colin Opie (colin-opie) said :
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I read it again, and I can't see any reference to removing STA drivers, but no matter, thanks to all for your help.