On Sunday 15 Jan 2012 01:38:08 Carlos Sura wrote: > On 14 January 2012 18:14, Carlos Sura <carlos.su...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hello Mates, > > > > I have updated my kernel to 3.2.1, using my old config, when I boot my > > laptop with the new kernel, my wireless was not working, I thought that > > it was my mistake, but after a google search I found the following > > article: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Broadcom_43xx
I'm not sure that this article is up to date. Have you been through this: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > > Since, my wireless card is: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n > > Wireless LAN Controller > > > > That should work, right? I'm running stable kernels and actually I'm still with 3.0.6 because the 3.1.6 crashes when I suspend to RAM. Also my wireless card is BCM4312 802.11b/g LP- PHY and it works fine with the b43 driver on the older kernels - which driver was yours using? (from lspci -k) 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge Kernel modules: ssb > > Then I did the Open Source Kernel Driver, and installed the package > > broadcom-sta. The broadcom-sta is Broadcom's proprietary driver - not Open Source! According to the URL I mention above the BCM4313 chipset uses unsupported LCN PHY, and the kernel developers are working on it. May be worth talking to them on #bcm-users in irc.freenode.net to see what they recommend. I suspect your choices are wl (which I don't think is in kernel) and the staging driver brcmsmac (because the mac80211 does not work with Broadcom's proprietary ieee80211 stack). > > Boot the laptop again, and 'voila' wireless was working again, but after > > 25-30 minutes using it, it stopped working, show me a blank screen with > > the following error: > > > > Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! > > Jan 14 18:12:14 gentoo-b0x kernel: [ 614.214017] ERROR > > @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Could not get rssi (-22) > > > > with a loop of that message, I could not do anything, just ctrl + alt + > > supr to reboot > > > > Second time, took 15-20 minutes and the same mistake, this is my third > > time with the new kernel, I'm 15 minutes now, and nothing happened. See if the module has any options for power saving and switch them off. > > Any help? > > > > Regards > > > > -- > > Carlos Sura.- > > www.carlossura.com > > I'm back in the old kernel, and removed the broadcom-sta package and > wireless seems to works. > > So, there is no need of broadcom-sta at this moment in the old kernel, > maybe the new kernel works too without that package, I will update later, > after testing. It may help if you were to tell us which driver you are now using. -- Regards, Mick
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