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BCM4313 802.11bgn doesn't work in Jessie

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BCM4313 802.11bgn doesn't work in Jessie

#1 Post by melior »

Hi everyone!
I need your help with Debian configurating, so I try to use wifi adapter, but it doesn't work.

I have installed Debian Jessie from netinst CD. To reach perfect speed no options were selected. After I installed xfce4 and xfce4-goodies.
I follow some different instructions and no one helps me yet. Wicd show me no avalable wifi connections.

Can you help me to find step-by-step solution?

Thank you.

PS
My notebook was bought 8 years ago. I used Ubuntu 14, Ubuntu 12, etc. and I didn't have any problems with wi-fi connections.

Some outputs of comands...

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satyva@meliorD:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
8.3

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satyva@meliorD:~$ lspci | grep 4313
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

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satyva@meliorD:~$ sudo ifconfig
[sudo] password for satyva: 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3c:97:0e:60:f5:0c  
          inet addr:192.168.0.105  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::3e97:eff:fe60:f50c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:100744 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:66167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:104323695 (99.4 MiB)  TX bytes:9162750 (8.7 MiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:1052 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1052 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:31469 (30.7 KiB)  TX bytes:31469 (30.7 KiB)

satyva@meliorD:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3c:97:0e:60:f5:0c  
          inet addr:192.168.0.105  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::3e97:eff:fe60:f50c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:100758 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:66178 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:104325841 (99.4 MiB)  TX bytes:9166648 (8.7 MiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:1052 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1052 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:31469 (30.7 KiB)  TX bytes:31469 (30.7 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 20:68:9d:93:d4:31  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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Re: BCM4313 802.11bgn doesn't work in Jessie

#2 Post by arochester »

https://wiki.debian.org/wl ?
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Re: BCM4313 802.11bgn doesn't work in Jessie

#3 Post by kalwisti »

Hi, melior,

I think it's likely that you have the same model of Broadcom WiFi card which I have in an older HP Mini 210 netbook. If that is the case, you need to follow the Debian Wiki's instructions for installing the "brcm80211" driver:

https://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211
[Debian Wiki]. "brcm80211."
(To install the necessary firmware, etc., you will need to have your laptop connected via a wired Ethernet connection).

However, before you proceed, carefully read through the forum thread below in order to make sure that your Broadcom chipset identically matches the original poster's and mine.

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 26#p587932
"Faulty WiFi connection." 7 Aug. 2015.

(The card in question is a Broadcom BCM 4313 [14e4:4727]).

Carefully check your output from the commands given here, to make sure they match (are identical to the poster's):

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 26#p587956

And here:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 26#p587967

< I pulled the HP Mini out of the closet to update it, and the Terminal output from those commands is pasted below:

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david@tlacuache:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:145c]
	Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1584]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169

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david@tlacuache:~$ lsmod | egrep 'b43|ssb|brcm|wl'
brcmsmac              490722  0 
cordic                 12336  1 brcmsmac
brcmutil               12941  1 brcmsmac
mac80211              421532  1 brcmsmac
cfg80211              350041  2 brcmsmac,mac80211
bcma                   36446  1 brcmsmac
>

Finally, after you've successfully installed the brcmsmac driver, follow the command given here to blacklist the "b43" driver:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 26#p588002

Please post back if you have any doubts, or run into problems.

HTH and Good luck.
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Re: BCM4313 802.11bgn doesn't work in Jessie

#4 Post by v&n »

Despite its annoying "sometimes works, sometimes doesn't" behaviour, the combination of BCM4313 + brcmsmac has become particularly interesting to me. I would be very curious to see OP's feedback, although I don't know if I would get any time to contribute to the thread, if needed.

PS:
Thanks for saving my time, kalwisti. I didn't remember those posts. :)
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Re: BCM4313 802.11bgn doesn't work in Jessie

#5 Post by kalwisti »

v&n wrote:Despite its annoying "sometimes works, sometimes doesn't" behaviour, the combination of BCM4313 + brcmsmac has become particularly interesting to me. I would be very curious to see OP's feedback, although I don't know if I would get any time to contribute to the thread, if needed.
Thanks for chiming in, v&n. :) I'm glad you're watching this thread, since you know much more about WiFi stuff than I do.

Regarding the performance of brcmsmac on my HP Mini, I'd say that it has been very good. The connection is reliable (i.e., it almost never drops / disconnects) and the signal strength is typically good. I have no desire to experiment with any other drivers at this point.
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Re: BCM4313 802.11bgn doesn't work in Jessie

#6 Post by dovlatov »

Same Problem, nothing works. Any ideas how to fix it?
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