Victor Ion Munteanu 2013-11-07 09:04:22 UTC Description of problem: I own a G750JX and the model comes with a Broadcom BCM43b1 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 6.30.223.95 The fedora linux kernel does not come with a wireless driver for this card, however some people have made one that works. It can be found here: For kernels = 3.10 some adjustments need to be done (minor change in architecture). I can attach the updated version I use (manually compiled each kernel update). Unfortunately, I'm not sure what needs to be done in order to push this module into the kernel but this module works (mostly) with minor hickups.
Bcmwl-kernel-source Download for Linux (deb, amd64, i386) Download bcmwl-kernel-source linux packages for Mint, Ubuntu. Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver. B43 and b43legacy are drivers for the 802.11 B/G/N family of wireless chips that Broadcom produces. The choice of which driver your card uses depends on the revision level of the 802.11 core. The choice of which driver your card uses depends on the revision level of the 802.11 core.
Wireless Driver For Windows 7
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Fedora 2. Actual results: No wifi Expected results: Wifi Additional info: Please see description. John Greene 2013-11-15 15:13:59 UTC Munteanu, The patch you mention appears to be in already, kernel version v3.9-12346-gd4988d4. The udev output seems to show the bcma isn't happy with your chip, doesn't find a core it supports, as you say.
This device is an 802.11 ac device which I'm new to: this is newer high performance device and it makes sense that the drivers lag for this at this point. Let me check around. Are you loading wl intentionally?
(blacklisting b43 and or bcma/brcmsmac) Can you post your kernel.config file? Should be in the /boot directory with the kernel.
John Greene 2014-03-18 13:20:17 UTC Munteanu, Probably not much help to you other than just peripheral info. It appears that drivers are just now starting to support 802.11ac rates you desire.
The bug below is for an Intel chipset I just checked this morning for you again after reading it, nothing new to this issue for you from BCM upstream, unfortunately. I'll keep looking, but until something shows up, not much I can do to help. I know BCM is limited in resources to support open source, several chips we'd like to see support for already, but it's up to them to put resources on that effort. Wish I had better news.
Would you like to keep this open still? Victor Ion Munteanu 2014-03-18 18:36:20 UTC Dear John, I don't know how to reply to your message. From my point of view as a regular linux user it is frustrating to see that you have a WORKING DRIVER and you refuze to accept it and integrate it in the linux kernel. You said that: I know BCM is limited in resources to support open source, several chips we'd like to see support for already, but it's up to them to put resources on that effort. The thing is Broadcom did they part.
If you go to this link: and download the driver and compile it, it works (for kernel. Arend van Spriel 2014-03-18 21:15:36 UTC (In reply to Munteanu Victor Ion from ) Dear JohnI don't know how to reply to your message. From my point of view as a regular linux user it is frustrating to see that you have a WORKING DRIVER and you refuze to accept it and integrate it in the linux kernel. You said that: I know BCM is limited in resources to support open source, several chips we'd like to see support for already, but it's up to them to put resources on that effort. The thing is Broadcom did they part. If you go to this link: I have to correct you here. This so-called hybrid driver that you indicate as working driver is only partially compiled and the majority is a binary blob.
That is all the excuse one need to not push it upstream.
Broadcom 802.11 Linux Sta Wireless Driver For Mac
Introduction I've seen some confusion when it comes to installing the wireless drivers for Broadcom's BCM43142 802.11b/g/n card, specifically with Kali or other Debian based distributions. If you're running Linux kernel /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf modprobe wl.
Patching file src/wl/sys/wllinux.c Hunk #1 succeeded at 3236 (offset 7 lines). Hunk #2 succeeded at 3254 (offset 7 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 3417 (offset 7 lines). Hunk #4 succeeded at 3447 (offset 7 lines).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 3483 (offset 7 lines). Wireless-bcm43142 needs wl driver by Broadcom. The problem with wireless-bcm43142-dkms-6.20.55.19amd64.deb is you need to patch it with appropriate patches for your kernel version.
You also need corresponding kernel headers to build the kernal driver (wl.ko) You can identify your kernel version using: uname -r Make sure you have appropriate kernel headers else you cannot perform build for kernel 4.0 perform following steps:- add this repository to /etc/apt/sourrces.list: deb sana main non-free contrib sana is required to download 4.0 kernel headers perform apt-get install linux-headers-uname -r build-essential -y download Broadcom wl driver source code from extract the zip and cd to that folder apply all 9 patches patch -p1 /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf modprobe wl. I am having issues with this installation I installed 32 bit Kalilinux OS on a 64 BIt sony VAIO.TECHIESSS please help meee root@Backtrack:/Desktop#./broadcom.sh Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae' -2014-09-24 16:58:53- Resolving www.broadcom.com (www.broadcom.com).
63.251.216.155 Connecting to www.broadcom.com (www.broadcom.com) 63.251.216.155 :80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response. Anonymous hello there! Am new for kali and also having patch failure, i try to relocate the patch file too but it again. Root@kali:/broadcom# patch -p2. Anonymous my lappy is lenovo y510p ideapad.
My wireless chipset is bcm43142. I m working on enabling the wifi from last 3 weeks. I followed the above procedure and got my wifi working. But i am able to use it for injection on my dual boot kali linux.
After looking around for it i found that my drivers wl is unable to support the injection. Is it true??? If yes then can i get it work after installing another drivers?? Give me the link here. If it s not true then tell me how to enable it for injection. Thank you!!!!
I m running kali version 3.18.0-kali1-amd64 network interface 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01). This is the output when i run the above script.
Saving to: `wl3.10.patch' 100% 2,916 -.-K/s in 0s 2015-02-24 08:48:56 (172 MB/s) - `wl3.10.patch' saved 2916/2916 patching file src/wl/sys/wllinux.c Hunk #1 succeeded at 3236 (offset 7 lines). Hunk #2 succeeded at 3254 (offset 7 lines). Hunk #3 succeeded at 3417 (offset 7 lines). Hunk #4 succeeded at 3447 (offset 7 lines). Hunk #5 succeeded at 3483 (offset 7 lines). GREEEEEAAATTT NEWS!!!
For all of you who did not succede with this driver. Make sure that file: /etc/apt/sources.list contains following 4 lines: deb-src sana main non-free contrib deb-src sana/updates main contrib non-free deb sana main non-free contrib deb sana/updates main contrib non-free 2. After that normaly:, apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install-y linux-headers-$(uname -r) 3.Then the big surprise (full graphical install):-) Install synaptic. Apt-get install synaptic -y -Then just open synaptic (the new-installed program under Kali-linux) and type 'bcm43142' and search.U'll see 3 different drivers. Broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-dkms broadcom-sta-source -Mark for installation to broadcom-sta-dkms and install it. The wi-fi card will magicly come to life.
Please comment if it works for you-Thanks. For an amd64 system i did the following ( lenovo g510 with BCM43142) make sure you have the correct sources in your sources.list file # main sources for kali deb kali main non-free contrib deb kali/updates main contrib non-free # source sources for kali deb-src kali main non-free contrib deb-src kali/updates main contrib non-free # bleeding edge. #deb kali-bleeding-edge main #deb-src kali-bleeding-edge main and then update and upgrade your system. GREEEEEAAATTT NEWS!!! For all of you who did not succede with this driver. Make sure that file: /etc/apt/sources.list contains following 4 lines: deb-src sana main non-free contrib deb-src sana/updates main contrib non-free deb sana main non-free contrib deb sana/updates main contrib non-free 2.
After that normaly:, apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install-y linux-headers-$(uname -r) 3.Then the big surprise (full graphical install):-) Install synaptic. Apt-get install synaptic -y -Then just open synaptic (the new-installed program under Kali-linux) and type 'bcm43142' and search.U'll see 3 different drivers.
Broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-dkms broadcom-sta-source -Mark for installation to broadcom-sta-dkms and install it. The wi-fi card will magicly come to life. Please comment if it works for you-Thanks.
# lspci grep BCM43142 07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01) root@kali:# wget -2015-12-13 19:45:08- Resolving gist.githubusercontent.com (gist.githubusercontent.com). 103.245.222.133, 64:ff9b::67f5:de85 Connecting to gist.githubusercontent.com (gist.githubusercontent.com) 103.245.222.133 :443. HTTP request sent, awaiting response. 200 OK Length: 646 text/plain Saving to: ‘bcm43142drivers.sh’ bcm43142drivers.sh 100% 646 -.-KB/s in 0s 2015-12-13 19:46:04 (6.87 MB/s) - ‘bcm43142drivers.sh’ saved 646/646 root@kali:# chmod +x bcm43142drivers.sh root@kali:# sudo./bcm43142drivers.sh Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.0.0-kali1-amd64 E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.0.0-kali1-amd64' -2015-12-13 19:46:51- Resolving www.broadcom.com (www.broadcom.com). 63.251.216.155, 64:ff9b::3ffb:d89b Connecting to www.broadcom.com (www.broadcom.com) 63.251.216.155 :80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response. 200 OK Length: 1786627 (1.7M) application/x-gzip Saving to: ‘hybrid-v3564-nodebug-pcoem-630223141.tar.gz’ hybrid-v3564-nodeb 52% 913.61K 5.26KB/s in 2m 52s 2015-12-13 19:49:46 (5.31 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 935536.2015-12-13 19:49:47- (try: 2) Connecting to www.broadcom.com (www.broadcom.com) 63.251.216.155 :80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response. 206 Partial Content Length: 1786627 (1.7M), 851091 (831K) remaining application/x-gzip Saving to: ‘hybrid-v3564-nodebug-pcoem-630223141.tar.gz’ hybrid-v3564-nodeb 89% 1.53M 5.89KB/s in 2m 10s 2015-12-13 19:52:00 (4.99 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 1602375.2015-12-13 19:52:02- (try: 3) Connecting to www.broadcom.com (www.broadcom.com) 63.251.216.155 :80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response. Dont make files an such nonsence-there is graphis user program for installing this driver now-its very easy.My card did not work too(i have Lenovo B590)with this script but using this program worke.Follow this instructions: 1.
Make sure that file: /etc/apt/sources.list contains following 4 lines: deb-src sana main non-free contrib deb-src sana/updates main contrib non-free deb sana main non-free contrib deb sana/updates main contrib non-free 2. After that normaly:, apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install-y linux-headers-$(uname -r) 3.Then the big surprise (full graphical install):-) Install synaptic. Apt-get install synaptic -y -Then just open synaptic (the new-installed program under Kali-linux) and type 'bcm43142' and search.U'll see 3 different drivers. Broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-dkms broadcom-sta-source -Mark for installation to broadcom-sta-dkms and install it. The wi-fi card will magicly come to life. Please comment if it works for you-Thanks.