Installing Broadcom Package

[jrehklau]

I installed my Kubuntu on my HP Pavilion dv2000 and my wireless card was working fine. Soon after... it crapped out on me and I can't find it anywhere. I have found the broadcom drivers that I need, but I am a new user and don't know how to package and apply them.

Can anyone give me some ideas of how I can do this?

Thanks!

[vinnywright]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

I installed my Kubuntu on my HP Pavilion dv2000 and my wireless card was working fine. Soon after... it crapped out on me and I can't find it anywhere.

please explane further.......what do you meen cant find it?

did you check to see that you dident hit the switch(if it hase 1 ) to disable it ?

in kickoff>system> their is a program cald "hardware drivers" run it ..... it will find and install the wireless driver for that card.

VINNY

[sithlord48]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

in kickoff>system> their is a program cald "hardware drivers" run it ..... it will find and install the wireless driver for that card.

VINNY

to clarify a bit on what vinny said

the progtram called "Jockey" ("Hardware Drivers" is its description)

[jrehklau]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

I went through my system apps and there is no program called Jockey. I did use the "Additional Drivers" search and it was unsuccessful in finding my WLAN card. The switch is turned on, but I am only getting my red "offline light indicator" and not the blue "online indicator".

I was thinking that some how it was disabled in ROOT.

My thought process was that if I could create a package around the downloaded driver, I could install it through root so it would enable the card on start up.

[vinnywright]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

post the output of the following commands

lspci

iwconfig

ifconfig -a

and

lsmod

VINNY

[sithlord48]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

would also like the network section of

lshw

as well as the output for

iwconfig

[jrehklau]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

justin@justin:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
07:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
08:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
08:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
08:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
08:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
justin@justin:~$ ^C
justin@justin:~$ justin@justin:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff

vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.

justin@justin:~$


justin@justin:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:72:50:8e:0f
inet addr:10.10.24.255 Bcast:10.10.31.255 Mask:255.255.240.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:72ff:fe50:8e0f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10582 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2815 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3086515 (3.0 MB) TX bytes:743102 (743.1 KB)
Interrupt:17

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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1440 (1.4 KB) TX bytes:1440 (1.4 KB)

vboxnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:00
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)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3b:3f:9f:d1
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)

justin@justin:~$

justin@justin:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 6599 1
vboxnetadp 6911 0
vboxnetflt 18625 0
vboxdrv 213743 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
parport_pc 26058 0
ppdev 5556 0
arc4 1165 2
snd_hda_codec_conexant 30003 1
snd_hda_intel 22235 2
snd_hda_codec 87552 2 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
i915 295435 4
snd_hwdep 5040 1 snd_hda_codec
iwlagn 178948 0
snd_pcm 71475 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
uvcvideo 55847 0
drm_kms_helper 30200 1 i915
snd_seq_midi 4588 0
drm 168060 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
iwlcore 127415 1 iwlagn
mac80211 231959 2 iwlagn,iwlcore
snd_rawmidi 17783 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6047 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47174 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
videodev 43098 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 13359 2 uvcvideo,videodev
i2c_algo_bit 5168 1 i915
snd_timer 19067 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
video 18712 1 i915
cfg80211 144694 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211
snd_seq_device 5744 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
output 1883 1 video
joydev 8767 0
snd 49038 13 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec ,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,s nd_seq_device
intel_agp 26566 2 i915
agpgart 32011 2 drm,intel_agp
lp 7342 0
r852 9536 0
sm_common 3285 1 r852
nand 34905 2 r852,sm_common
nand_ids 2903 1 nand
nand_ecc 3938 1 nand
mtd 18877 2 sm_common,nand
soundcore 880 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7120 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
psmouse 59033 0
hp_wmi 5223 0
parport 31492 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
serio_raw 4022 0
firewire_ohci 21234 0
sdhci_pci 6339 0
firewire_core 46643 1 firewire_ohci
ahci 19198 2
libahci 21728 1 ahci
crc_itu_t 1383 1 firewire_core
sdhci 15890 1 sdhci_pci
led_class 2633 1 sdhci
sky2 45127 0
justin@justin:~$

[vinnywright]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

first it looks from the lspci output as though your wireless is intel not Broadcom!!

07:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)

and it's down as far as ifconfig is concernd ....try a

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

and try agin.

you seam to have the right module loaded

iwlagn

and iwconfig dose recognise it.

have you done eney thing to try to FIX it yet?

VINNY

[arochester]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

According to this page - http://intellinuxwireless.org/

Note: The iwlwifi driver has been merged into mainline kernel since 2.6.24.

According to this page - http://www.linuxposts.com/ubuntu/842...2-11a-g-n.html Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965 AGN works fine, out-of-the-box, on several laptops.

The original post says "my wireless card was working fine. Soon after... it crapped out on me". The second page I quote says "I use Kubuntu and networkmanager is unstable using WPA so I installed wicd."

Which does the OP use? Networkmanager or wicd? Is wicd the answer?

[wizard10000]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

Which does the OP use? Networkmanager or wicd? Is wicd the answer?

That may be the problem. I've had wicd installs fail to remove all networkmanager components more than once and it pretty much completely breaks wireless networking.

[sithlord48]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

Which does the OP use? Networkmanager or wicd? Is wicd the answer?

That may be the problem. I've had wicd installs fail to remove all networkmanager components more than once and it pretty much completely breaks wireless networking.

Wicd And Network-manager can not be installed at the same time. if you have both installed then you should remove one. WPA does work in network manager i use it for all my connections. Every wireless network i set up uses wpa. Every machine i set up gets kubuntu all using network manager. i have at least 4 networks using wpa and 8-12 laptops using WPA to log on to the network . All machines using network manager.

The Biggest Connection issue i have had with knetworkmanager (since kde. 4.4.x, about a year ago) is that i had to once delete a connection and reset it up for it to work again.

[jrehklau]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

Vinny,

I tried "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up" and I got this in response...

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill

As far as my OP, I installed KNetworkManager.

[jrehklau]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

so... here is the whole process...

I was previously running Vista on this computer and I decided I wanted to convert to Kubuntu. I installed Kubuntu. My wireless was find. It worked great! I then started loading WINE, VBOX and started building my LAMP Stack. Since I am a Kubuntu virgin I decided after install and uninstalling tons of stuff that now that I knew what I was doing I would just do a format and reload Kubuntu so my wireless would work again.
So, I threw in the LIVE disk and reinstalled Kubuntu and now I've been trying to figure out why my wireless still isn't working.
Any ideas?

[wizard10000]

Re: Installing Broadcom Package

Vinny,

I tried "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up" and I got this in response...

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill

As far as my OP, I installed KNetworkManager.

First, if rfkill isn't installed, install it.

sudo apt-get install rfkill

second, do this -

sudo rfkill unblock all

then to make sure the command took, do this -

sudo rfkill list

you should see something like -

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

edit: Before you do any of the above, please try and avoid a facepalm moment and make sure the hardware switch for your wireless card is turned on.

cheers -