BROADCOM BCM4306 - wifi stopped working
ANDY
sirald66 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 23:04:33 UTC 2010
DELL LATITUDE D600
BROADCOM BCM4306 802.11b/g
UBUNTU 9.10 +proposed
My wifi has been working months and months, but just stopped, maybe due to
me. I need help getting it back.
* I think I unchecked Enable Wireless from the Gnome Panel Network Manager
drop-down. [it is a known problem up to Ubuntu 9.10 that once the Enable
Wireless is disabled either manually or by hiberate/sleep system modes, that
it can not be re-enabled during the session until the system has been
restarted restarted]
* Restarted the system, it started asking for my wifi passphrase (which is
still stored) and eventually it didn't see any local APs at all (of which
there are many). The pull down says the BROADCOM is Disconnected (not
disabled).
* A borrowed USB wifi stick (RALINK 802.11 BG WLAN) works.
* Checked the Hardware Drivers which showed BROADCOM B43 WIRELESS DRIVER as
Active. Removed/reinstalled it again as Active.
andy at TOBY:~$ dmesg | egrep 'b43|wlan0'
[ 1.846981] b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:03.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 5
(level, low) -> IRQ 5
[ 26.904262] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found (core revision 5)
[ 28.276150] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[ 28.280299] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
[ 28.287597] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
[ 28.295592] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
[ 28.424237] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26
15:32:10)
[ 28.500714] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 28.500740] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 28.500766] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 28.501296] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
andy at TOBY:~$
andy at TOBY:~$ iwconfig
[snip]
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
andy at TOBY:~$
ANDY - Salt Lake, UT US
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