[wellylug] Linux Mint 16 - Broadcom wireless issue

Steve Macdonald dakmani1 at yahoo.co.nz
Sat Jan 18 21:14:09 NZDT 2014


This is the full results, sorry not sure exactly what part you wanted

Module                  Size  Used by
arc4                   12608  2 
brcmsmac              562767  0 
parport_pc             32701  0 
ppdev                  17671  0 
rfcomm                 69070  12 
bnep                   19564  2 
cordic                 12574  1 brcmsmac
x86_pkg_temp_thermal    14162  0 
intel_powerclamp       14705  0 
brcmutil               15618  1 brcmsmac
coretemp               13435  0 
kvm                   431315  0 
crct10dif_pclmul       14289  0 
crc32_pclmul           13113  0 
ghash_clmulni_intel    13259  0 
aesni_intel            55624  1 
aes_x86_64             17131  1 aesni_intel
b43                   387185  0 
lrw                    13257  1 aesni_intel
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     41276  1 
snd_hda_codec_idt      50341  1 
mac80211              596969  2 b43,brcmsmac
snd_hda_intel          48171  3 
snd_hda_codec         188738  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
cfg80211              479757  3 b43,brcmsmac,mac80211
gf128mul               14951  1 lrw
hp_wmi                 14062  0 
glue_helper            13990  1 aesni_intel
ssb                    57932  1 b43
ablk_helper            13597  1 aesni_intel
sparse_keymap          13948  1 hp_wmi
cryptd                 20329  3 ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper
joydev                 17377  0 
snd_hwdep              13602  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm               102033  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc         18710  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_midi           13324  0 
btusb                  28267  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     14899  1 snd_seq_midi
bluetooth             371874  22 bnep,btusb,rfcomm





On Saturday, 18 January 2014 8:38 PM, Klaatu <klaatu at straightedgelinux.com> wrote:
 
I've never had that chipset myself, although I have had a 4312 and a few
others previous. They took a bit of work to get them to work, too.

The Internet suggests for the 4313 that the "correct" driver is the 'wl'
driver. It's possible that an older/not-as-good driver is attempting to
govern your chip.

How about doing an
sudo lsmod | less

and looking through the resuling list for these strings:
wl
b43
brcm80211

That might help identify what is being loaded as the wireless module. If
we're lucky, it'll be the wrong one and all you'll have to do is
blacklist the bad one and load the good one.

-- klaatu


On 01/18/2014 08:16 PM, Steve Macdonald wrote:
> It shows as broadcom bcm4313
> 
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: * Klaatu <klaatu at straightedgelinux.com>;
> *To: * <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>;
> *Subject: * Re: [wellylug] Linux Mint 16 - Broadcom wireless issue
> *Sent: * Sat, Jan 18, 2014 6:40:01 AM
> 
> Steve,
> What kind of Broadcom chip is it, exactly? if you open a terminal and do a
> sudo lspci | grep -i broad
> 
> it ought to tell you.
> 
> That would tell you what chipset the wireless card contains, and that
> ought to point toward the proper driver. Anyway, it's the best place to
> start.
> 
> 
> -klaatu
> 
> 
> On 01/17/2014 08:15 PM, Steve Macdonald wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> New Linux user here and decided to install Linux Mint, install went fine
>> however I am having major wireless issues, if it does work it is
>> extremely slow but drops off 99.9% of the time.
>>
>> Tried multiple things others have recommended on various site, and
>> before I give up I thought I was ask here if anyone was wanting to have
>> a crack at getting it going if I drop the laptop off to them in
>> Porirua/Wellington somewhere.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Steve
> 
>>
>>
>>
> 
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