[SOLVED] Broadcom wireless 4311 - which driver to use?

[SOLVED] Broadcom wireless 4311 - which driver to use?

Postby sulestino » Jan 10th, '14, 18:26

Hi,
after installation to newer kernel Mageia 3.10. my previously working wireless connection with older kernel (some 3.8) with BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01) has been cut and wificard no longer works.
I completely formatted HD, installed again with kernel 3.8.13.4-1,

By default there is installed b43, I add b43-fwcutter, it shows WLAN0 interface in MageiaControlCenter, but no networks are visible and wificard apparently is not working (checked via wifi button).
lsmod shows:
bcma is in use by b43, although due to installed broadcom-ssb-config should be blacklisted (checked in /etc/modprob.d). How to blacklist bcma without blacklisting b43 (I tried: install ... /bin/false , it blacklists also b43), as I suspect it as the reason why wificard does not work?

Then I tried to use broadcom wl driver: installed necessary packages, uninstall broadcom-ssb-config, it shows existing card, but is not finding WLAN interface, no possibility to even set up connection which with b43 exists (although does not work).
checked in /etc/modprob.d): bcma, b43, b43legacy, brcmfmac, brcmsmac and ssb are blacklisted,
lsmod does show ssb, used by b44 and ssb_hcd.

Any ideas what else to try to solve it?
Last edited by sulestino on Jan 11th, '14, 18:55, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Broadcom wireless 4311 - which driver to use?

Postby sulestino » Jan 11th, '14, 14:53

Solved now :)
b43 works perfectly as default, no further blacklisting needed.
wl does not work.
The issue was not caused by drivers but due to rf kill somehow forbiding wlan interface to start. After enabling wlan via konzole everything works.
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Re: Broadcom wireless 4311 - which driver to use?

Postby isadora » Jan 11th, '14, 14:59

Congrats sulestino, will you please mark the topic accordingly?
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