Dell Inspiron 1520 Wireless disappeared

[clueless]

Hi All,

I have had my machine up and running for about 18 days with FC17. The wireless worked flawlessly from the beginning(somewhat of a treat) I have had endless issues with the broadcom drivers and the manual on off switch. I gave up with FC16 and ran wired. Today I rebooted and all is lost. I read old posts(FC14 days) and can supply the following


[root@davis ~]# lsmod | grep wl
wl 2438684 0
lib80211 13683 1 wl
[root@davis ~]# dmesg | grep wl
[ 17.444562] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[root@davis ~]# dmesg | grep wireless
[root@davis ~]#

My kernel just updated as did kmod-wl-PAE as a dependent package.

Please let me know if there is anything else.
Sean

[Colors]

$ lspci | grep Wireless

and post to find what Broadcom model you have.

$ iwconfig wlan0

to view the connection to your router.

[clueless]

Colors,

This is what I got back;

[root@davis ~]# lspci | grep Wireless
[root@davis ~]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 No such device

[root@davis ~]

I can find what broadcom chipset I have, I will have to hunt through old posts. The timeless post from Stoat used to work, but things have changed other than the fact that Dell have a crummy propriety chipset.

Sean

[Colors]

$ lspci

only that and post here

[clueless]

Colors,


[root@davis ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)


Sean

[Colors]

The first check will be to boot an older kernel version and see if the wireless card works.

I know that fedora 17 has now kernel support for a few broadcom wireless cards. So it's possible that after the update something has broken the broadcom-wl driver.

If the wireless is ok on older kernel version i would try to uninstall broadcom-wl, restart and check the network.

If that doesn't help install b43-openfwwf packet and check again.

[clueless]

Colors,

I am a little confused. I have broadcom-wl listed as one packet and b43-openfwwf listed as a different packet. I have removed the broadcom and rebooted and still nothing. Should I remove the b43-openfwwf and then re-install which one?

Sean

[Colors]

Let first uninstall all:

# yum remove broadcom-wl kmod-wl* b43-openfwwf

restart, check the network.

If it doesn't work install only one at a time:

# yum install broadcom-wl

it will install also kmod-wl and kmod-wl-PAE i guess,

or if still the network don't work, remove broadcom-wl:

# yum remove broadcom-wl kmod-wl*

and install b43-openfwwf

# yum install b43-openfwwf

hope it will work...

[clueless]

Colors,

I did the broadcom first, restarted and nothing. Then I did the b43, and still nothing. Now what. With FC 16 I gave up and stayed with hard wired, a real pity and means I can never connect when I leave home.

Previously I removed and re-installed everything I even tried akmod and that didn't work.

I just updated my other machine, also a Dell and this is what posted;

Removed: kernel-PAE.i686 0:3.4.0-1.fc17

Dependency Removed: kmod-wl-3.4.0-1.fc17.i686.PAE.i686 0:5.100.82.112-3.fc17

Installed: kernel-PAE.i686 0:3.4.4-3.fc17

I think the kmod hasnt updated yet??

Sean

---------- Post added at 12:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:36 AM ----------

Colors,

I have since installed,

Package kmod-wl-PAE-5.100.82.112-3.fc17.3.i686 already installed and latest version


Sean

[Colors]

Yes, you need the last kmod-wl-3.4.4-3.fc17.i686.PAE.i686 assuming that the wireless card will work after.

[clueless]

Colors,

I now have that update too and still nothing.

SEan

[Colors]

$ lsmod

As root:

Try to load manually:

# modprobe -r wl

# modprobe wl

Check the network.

If not, maybe is a conflict between wl module and bcma.

The other way:

# modprobe -r wl

# modprobe bcma

Check the network.

[clueless]

Colors,


[root@davis ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
fuse 71416 3
bnep 18863 2
lockd 78001 0
sunrpc 215303 1 lockd
bluetooth 258249 7 bnep
ip6t_REJECT 12826 2
nf_conntrack_ipv6 13928 3
nf_defrag_ipv6 13642 1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
ip6table_filter 12711 1
ip6_tables 17744 1 ip6table_filter
nf_conntrack_ipv4 14280 2
nf_defrag_ipv4 12601 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
xt_state 12514 5
nf_conntrack 71517 3 xt_state,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6
tpm_bios 13328 0
binfmt_misc 17231 1
wl 2438684 0
uvcvideo 66952 0
videobuf2_vmalloc 12839 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 13162 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core 27259 1 uvcvideo
videodev 83288 1 uvcvideo
media 19719 2 uvcvideo,videodev
coretemp 13204 0
snd_hda_codec_idt 59870 1
snd_hda_intel 32324 2
snd_hda_codec 103782 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13232 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 81297 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc 13709 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 23742 1 snd_pcm
snd 63133 10 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_pcm,snd_ hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
r592 17653 0
dell_laptop 17719 0
rfkill 20451 4 bluetooth,dell_laptop
dcdbas 14364 1 dell_laptop
i2c_i801 17499 0
memstick 15381 1 r592
microcode 18713 0
soundcore 14123 1 snd
iTCO_wdt 17652 0
iTCO_vendor_support 13243 1 iTCO_wdt
dell_wmi 12601 0
sparse_keymap 13342 1 dell_wmi
lib80211 13683 1 wl
b44 31240 0
ssb 55248 1 b44
mii 13311 1 b44
uinput 17304 0
sdhci_pci 18188 0
sdhci 32714 1 sdhci_pci
firewire_ohci 35513 0
mmc_core 96977 2 ssb,sdhci
firewire_core 55366 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 12523 1 firewire_core
nouveau 732853 4
mxm_wmi 12727 1 nouveau
wmi 18273 3 dell_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau
video 18503 1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 13065 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 31059 1 nouveau
ttm 68216 1 nouveau
drm 205872 6 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
i2c_core 28180 6 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau,v ideodev
[root@davis ~]#


[root@davis ~]# modprobe -r wl
[root@davis ~]# modprobe wl
[root@davis ~]# modprobe bcma
[root@davis ~]#

I don't know if I was supposed to restart, but when I went to network only the wired network was present.

Sean

[Colors]

There is a post about this issue:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280821

If i will found more info, i'll post here.

---------- Post added at 11:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:11 PM ----------

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...1&postcount=10

---------- Post added at 11:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:18 PM ----------

It seems that broadcom-wl is broken for the moment but here is another solution:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...34&postcount=4

---------- Post added at 11:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:31 PM ----------

HOWTO Use Broadcom Wireless Cards in Fedora 14/15/16
Last update: 5/18/2012

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...60&postcount=1

but here is an excerpt for
How to install and use the Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver (broadcom-wl)

Some things to try if it doesn't work

Check the installed packages against the running kernel. It should all make sense by the version numbers. If it doesn't, then fix the installed packages situation. And make sure the correct kernel is running for the installed kmod package versions (a very common mistake).
Code:

uname -r
rpm -qa | grep -e kernel -e broadcom-wl -e kmod-wl | sort

Check the loaded kernel modules. The wl module should be loaded, and potentially conflicting modules such as b43, b43legacy, and ssb should not be loaded.
Code:

lsmod | sort

If wl is not loaded, then try manually loading it.
Code:

su
modprobe wl
service NetworkManager restart

If manually loading the module worked, then add that modprobe command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
Code:

su
echo "modprobe wl" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local

If a conflicting module is being loaded, then blacklist the unwanted module. Examples...
Code:

su
echo "blacklist b43" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
echo "blacklist ssb" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf


You have loaded b44 and ssb so it could be an answer on your issue.

[clueless]

Colors,

I think I did everything including the other links which really amounted to removing the broadcom-wl package and installing the akmod-wl package. I went through your list of commands and here is what happened. I think the issue is no wl and I dont know why.


[root@davis ~]# lsmod | sort
b44 31240 0
binfmt_misc 17231 1
bluetooth 258249 7 bnep
bnep 18863 2
coretemp 13204 0
crc_itu_t 12523 1 firewire_core
dcdbas 14364 1 dell_laptop
dell_laptop 17719 0
dell_wmi 12601 0
drm 205872 6 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
drm_kms_helper 31059 1 nouveau
firewire_core 55366 1 firewire_ohci
firewire_ohci 35513 0
fuse 71416 3
i2c_algo_bit 13065 1 nouveau
i2c_core 28180 6 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau,v ideodev
i2c_i801 17499 0
ip6table_filter 12711 1
ip6_tables 17744 1 ip6table_filter
ip6t_REJECT 12826 2
iTCO_vendor_support 13243 1 iTCO_wdt
iTCO_wdt 17652 0
lockd 78001 0
media 19719 2 uvcvideo,videodev
memstick 15381 1 r592
microcode 18713 0
mii 13311 1 b44
mmc_core 96977 2 ssb,sdhci
Module Size Used by
mxm_wmi 12727 1 nouveau
nf_conntrack 71517 3 xt_state,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6
nf_conntrack_ipv4 14280 2
nf_conntrack_ipv6 13928 3
nf_defrag_ipv4 12601 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
nf_defrag_ipv6 13642 1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
nouveau 732853 4
r592 17653 0
rfkill 20451 4 bluetooth,dell_laptop
sdhci 32714 1 sdhci_pci
sdhci_pci 18188 0
snd 63133 13 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_pcm,snd_ hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec 103782 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec_idt 59870 1
snd_hda_intel 32324 4
snd_hwdep 13232 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_page_alloc 13709 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 81297 3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 23742 1 snd_pcm
soundcore 14123 1 snd
sparse_keymap 13342 1 dell_wmi
ssb 55248 1 b44
sunrpc 215303 1 lockd
tpm_bios 13328 0
ttm 68216 1 nouveau
uinput 17304 0
uvcvideo 66952 0
video 18503 1 nouveau
videobuf2_core 27259 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 13162 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_vmalloc 12839 1 uvcvideo
videodev 83288 1 uvcvideo
wmi 18273 3 dell_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau
xt_state 12514 5
[root@davis ~]# modprobe wl
FATAL: Module wl not found.
[root@davis ~]# service NetworkManager restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart NetworkManager.service
[root@davis ~]# uname -r
3.4.4-3.fc17.i686.PAE
[root@davis ~]# rpm -qa | grep -e kernel -e broadcom-wl -e kmod-wl | sort
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.10-4.fc17.i686
akmod-wl-5.100.82.112-3.fc17.i686
broadcom-wl-5.100.82.112-2.fc17.1.noarch
kernel-devel-3.4.4-3.fc17.i686
kernel-headers-3.4.4-3.fc17.i686
kernel-PAE-3.4.2-4.fc17.i686
kernel-PAE-3.4.3-1.fc17.i686
kernel-PAE-3.4.4-3.fc17.i686
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.0.10-3.fc17.i686
[root@davis ~]#


Sean