b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1) -> BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01) wireless controller not working on Compaq mini 110c in Ubuntu 9.10

Hi,

Please first connect your network card to the wireless router using an ethernet cable (also known as a LAN cable).

In order to gather essential troubleshooting information about your wireless card, please follow this procedure:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->Terminal"

Step 2: Please copy-paste the following command from the https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu website in Firefox into the Linux Terminal. Do NOT copy-paste from the Email message into the Terminal, as that will only copy PART of the command. The command STARTS with the word sudo and ENDS with the word restart. So please copy-paste the ENTIRE command below from Firefox into a Terminal, press <enter>, then enter password when sudo asks for password, then press enter again.

sudo lshw -C network; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -C usb; uname -a; dmesg | grep ound; dmesg | grep b43; dmesg | grep iwl; iwconfig; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Step 3: Please post results (copy/paste terminal output) on this thread

Regards,

Mark

Hi Mark
I e-mailed hp support about this issue and they said that there are no linux drivers for the wireless & bluetooth cards in this machine.

Here is what I got when I followed your instructions with Terminal. It's a lot of stuff so I will sign off now. And thanks a lot for your help.

all the best
Patrick

  *-network
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:feafc000-feafffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
       vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: c0
       serial: 00:26:55:b1:f5:bf
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.0.1-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.66 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:26 memory:febc0000-febfffff ioport:ec80(size=128)
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27ac] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 02)
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1969:1062] (rev c0)
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 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 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Linux patrick-laptop 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00ff780] ff780
[ 0.343482] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.392431] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[ 1.197417] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.380280] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.380942] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.381422] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.381928] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.382397] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.390854] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 1.396635] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 3.796224] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:01:00.0
[ 6.116107] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 6.815281] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
[ 6.831653] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 Camera (0c45:62c0)
[ 7.320841] input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Right Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input9
[ 7.321126] input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Right Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10
[ 3.725575] b43-pci-bridge 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 3.725602] b43-pci-bridge 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 6.815281] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
[ 6.869196] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1)
[ 6.869264] b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -95
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.

It is not true what HP support told you.

Please try the solution from Tom Haddon from this location:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/385293

You will first need to keep the computer connected to the router using a wired connection to be able to install the driver package called bcmwl-kernel-source

Then reboot and retest wireless.

Hi Mark
It worked! I am no on-line. Now is there a way to get the Bluetooth going? When I try to open, I get a message that says "no bluetooth adapter installed." And thanks again.

Patrick

Hi Patrick,

Glad to read that the wireless issue is solved.

Now that the wireless issue is solved, can you please set the thread status to "solved"?

In order to avoid confusion for visitors who might be looking for this wireless solution and to avoid contaminating this thread, can you please create a separate thread for the bluetooth issue, which is a totally different issue?

Here is the link for creating a new thread:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

Regards and thanks,

Mark

Hello Mark this is my results...my problem is that i couldnt activate the wireless driver on the window Hardware driver despite it is detected and so i remove all the drivers and i tried to reinstall the bcmw kernel source on terminal and it happened this. Thanks a lot for your help!
 sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
[sudo] password for brawni:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  debhelper module-assistant intltool-debian po-debconf debconf-utils libmail-sendmail-perl gettext cvs html2text
  kernel-package libsys-hostname-long-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed
  bcmwl-kernel-source
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 169 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/618kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,835kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package bcmwl-kernel-source.
(Reading database ... 118876 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bcmwl-kernel-source (from .../bcmwl-kernel-source_5.10.91.9+bdcom-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (5.10.91.9+bdcom-0ubuntu4) ...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Directory for kernel 2.6.31-17-generic found in /lib/modules
Adding Module to DKMS build system
Doing initial module build

Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.31-17-generic cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.31-17-generic/build or /lib/modules/2.6.31-17-generic/source.
Installing initial module

Error! Could not locate wl.ko for module bcmwl in the DKMS tree.
You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.31-17-generic (i686) first.
Done.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
brawni@Brawni:~$

And these are the results:

*-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:feafc000-feafffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
       vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: c0
       serial: 00:25:b3:4c:34:91
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.0.1-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.72 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:27 memory:febc0000-febfffff ioport:ec80(size=128)
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27ac] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1969:1062] (rev c0)
Bus 004 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 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 10f1:1a0f
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Linux Brawni 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 16:20:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00ff780] ff780
[ 0.339007] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.396539] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[ 1.200568] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.228262] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.228912] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.229400] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.229885] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.230360] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.238492] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 1.244195] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 8.433763] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Webcam-101 (10f1:1a0f)
[ 9.343309] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 10.925888] input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Right Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10
[ 10.926126] input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Right Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.

@brawni: please create a separate question using this link:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion