I have a wireless problem with this wifi adapter. At first when installing my Ubuntu 12.10 the STA driver was working fine. Then my wired connection wasn't working. After installing the alx driver and modprobing it the wire started working flawlessly. Then my wireless failed. There wasn't anything about wireless in the network manager.
I've already looked and did what is said here, here. I removed the bcmwl-kernel-source
package and installed firmware-b43-installer
and b43-fwcutter
. I've added the b43 driver in /etc/modules
.
Then my wireless started working again for a while (1-2 minutes of browsing) and then disconnected. The only wireless network my laptop finds is my own wireless network (the router is next to my PC). There are a number of other networks in my building that don't show. After a reboot, the wireless 'decided' not to work again – int the network manager it's only stated : "Wireless Networks disconnected". So now I have only wired connection.
There is the output of some commands related to the issue:
lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4
:
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0587]
iwconfig
:
eth1 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=19 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
rfkill list all
:
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: phy1: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
lsmod
:
Module Size Used by
nfnetlink_log 17845 0
nfnetlink 14327 1 nfnetlink_log
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 32007 1
snd_hda_codec_conexant 57842 1
parport_pc 32688 0
ppdev 17073 0
rfcomm 42651 0
bnep 18140 2
bluetooth 204950 10 rfcomm,bnep
arc4 12529 2
coretemp 13400 0
kvm 414070 0
ghash_clmulni_intel 13180 0
aesni_intel 51037 0
cryptd 20403 2 ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel
aes_x86_64 17208 1 aesni_intel
brcmsmac 531127 0
brcmutil 14755 1 brcmsmac
cordic 12535 1 brcmsmac
snd_hda_intel 33491 3
snd_hda_codec 134212 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13602 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 96580 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
b43 370289 0
mac80211 549340 2 brcmsmac,b43
cfg80211 211133 3 brcmsmac,b43,mac80211
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_rawmidi 30512 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61521 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
ideapad_laptop 18086 0
sparse_keymap 13890 1 ideapad_laptop
snd_timer 29425 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
nouveau 895609 0
psmouse 95552 0
uvcvideo 76749 0
serio_raw 13215 0
videobuf2_core 32851 1 uvcvideo
videodev 120309 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
videobuf2_vmalloc 12860 1 uvcvideo
joydev 17457 0
videobuf2_memops 13368 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
ttm 83595 1 nouveau
lpc_ich 17061 0
mac_hid 13205 0
i915 520539 3
snd 78734 16 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,s nd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
alx 81256 0
mxm_wmi 12979 1 nouveau
wmi 19070 2 nouveau,mxm_wmi
bcma 40069 2 brcmsmac,b43
ssb 61895 1 b43
soundcore 15047 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 18484 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
pcmcia 48964 2 b43,ssb
pcmcia_core 22569 1 pcmcia
compat 14949 10 rfcomm,bnep,bluetooth,brcmsmac,b43,mac80211,cfg80211,alx,bcma,ssb
mei 40690 0
drm_kms_helper 49112 2 nouveau,i915
rts5139 356158 0
microcode 22803 0
drm 288670 6 nouveau,ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper
lp 17759 0
parport 46345 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
i2c_algo_bit 13413 2 nouveau,i915
video 19335 2 nouveau,i915
hid_generic 12493 0
usbhid 46947 0
hid 100366 2 hid_generic,usbhid
Can someone give any ideas on how I can fix my wireless to run smoothly?
Best Answer
I was seeing the same error message on
modprobe wl
as Dimitar, on an Ideapad with bcm4314.This led me to this bug report, where removing the linux-backports-modules was suggested.
made wifi work again.