No WiFi on resume from suspend Broadcom 43x [Solved]

[BKJ]

@stoat thanks for the link for the solution (post2). I have an 1015PEM-PU17 (eepc netbook) that was doing the same thing as the original poster. The netbook uses the broadcom driver and the following script from the link worked.

01. Simply created a new file called:

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brcm.sh

02. Inserted the below code and save:

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#!/bin/bash
# Simple bash script to fix resume from suspend issues...
# Place this script in /etc/pm/sleep.d/
# then chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/brcm.sh

case $1 in
hibernate)
/sbin/modprobe -r brcm80211
;;
suspend)
/sbin/modprobe -r brcm80211
;;
resume)
/sbin/modprobe brcm80211
;;
thaw)
/sbin/modprobe brcm80211
;;
esac


03. Placed it in the following location:

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/etc/pm/sleep.d/

04. Made it executable:

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sudo chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/brcm.sh

After that all was well after resuming from suspend. Using debian amd64 with WICD as wifi manager.

[rdonnelly]

I thought you established that you're using brcm80211. Does this do any good after resuming?

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su
modprobe -r brcm80211
modprobe brcm80211

This worked!

[rdonnelly]

Well, that BCM4313 chipset also is known to work with b43 and broadcom-wl. But in this case, the lspci output suggested that brcm80211 is being used. That is the new open source Broadcom driver for Linux announced last September. I haven't been following it though. Today, I learned that it is included with Debian kernel images since 2.6.32-22. I don't use it myself, but it sure enough is listed amongst my Squeeze wireless modules. I guess rdonnelly's Mint system has it, too. It requires firmware, but for Squeeze the firmware is in the non-free repo. So if rdonnelly's card was connected and turned on when Mint was installed, then it's conceivable that the firmware was installed during installation and the brcm80211 module is loaded by the kernel at boot time making the thing "just work" as the saying goes.

Actually WiFi did not work on install, I had to go to the Debian Wiki in order to configure it.

[rdonnelly]

Woo Hoo!!!!

That was the magic bullet that did the trick!

Thanks for all your help guys we all learned something from this.

@stoat thanks for the link for the solution (post2). I have an 1015PEM-PU17 (eepc netbook) that was doing the same thing as the original poster. The netbook uses the broadcom driver and the following script from the link worked.

01. Simply created a new file called:

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brcm.sh

02. Inserted the below code and save:

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#!/bin/bash
# Simple bash script to fix resume from suspend issues...
# Place this script in /etc/pm/sleep.d/
# then chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/brcm.sh

case $1 in
hibernate)
/sbin/modprobe -r brcm80211
;;
suspend)
/sbin/modprobe -r brcm80211
;;
resume)
/sbin/modprobe brcm80211
;;
thaw)
/sbin/modprobe brcm80211
;;
esac


03. Placed it in the following location:

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/etc/pm/sleep.d/

04. Made it executable:

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sudo chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/brcm.sh

After that all was well after resuming from suspend. Using debian amd64 with WICD as wifi manager.

[rdonnelly]

Once again thank you all for all your help, the Linux community is a great community with a great OS and fast solutions.