Wireless connection not showing up - BCM4313 - Please help!

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop SLED Networking
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I have a DELL Laptop and I just installed SUSE Desktop on it. I am able to connect the machine to the web using wired connection but not able to connect wireless. I am not able to see the bcm4313 wireless by using both Netmanager and Ifup.

#lspci

02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
0a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)

I am able to see the Ethernet Controller on my Network Settings (both Network Manager and ifup), but I am not able to see the BCM4313.

I had followed the document in http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt
Broadcom Linux hybrid wireless driver
Version 5.100.82.1XX

but I was not able to see any progress. Not sure if I am messing something up.

Currently i see

#lsmod |grep wl
wl 2605010 0
cfg80211 196278 1 wl
lib80211 14991 1 wl

Not sure what the “0” stands for here.

Also

lspci -vnn -d 14e4:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron M5010 / XPS 8300 [1028:0010]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at e3c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES- TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 14, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ ChkEn-
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number f8-c0-ab-ff-ff-da-00-00
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: wl, bcma

Please help me use my wireless…

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[QUOTE=shalia27;4237]I have a DELL Laptop and I just installed SUSE Desktop on it. I am able to connect the machine to the web using wired connection but not able to connect wireless. I am not able to see the bcm4313 wireless by using both Netmanager and Ifup.

#lspci

02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
0a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)

I am able to see the Ethernet Controller on my Network Settings (both Network Manager and ifup), but I am not able to see the BCM4313.

I had followed the document in http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt
Broadcom Linux hybrid wireless driver
Version 5.100.82.1XX

but I was not able to see any progress. Not sure if I am messing something up.

Currently i see

#lsmod |grep wl
wl 2605010 0
cfg80211 196278 1 wl
lib80211 14991 1 wl

Not sure what the “0” stands for here.

Also

lspci -vnn -d 14e4:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron M5010 / XPS 8300 [1028:0010]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at e3c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES- TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 14, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ ChkEn-
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number f8-c0-ab-ff-ff-da-00-00
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: wl, bcma

Please help me use my wireless…[/QUOTE]

I realize here that there are TWO wireless drivers - look at the last line “Kernel modules: wl, bcma”. I had to blacklist the bcma driver …and now atleast the wireless option is showing up…but I will have to configure that using NetManager.

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Well now it is fixed, the "Wireless Network Connection " was grayed out in NetManager in the bottom right corner of my screen icon. Simple fix-

  1. Make sure your wireless switch is turned on. My computer had a switch. Some comps have (Cntrl+F2)
  2. Right click on the icon and enable wireless…Viola!!! I can see all wireless connections near my laptop. I had configured my wireless router setting and so was able to connect to it and go wireless

Hope it helps someone…