[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-3-Alpha2: Broadcom wireless driver fails to connect to SSID

[jpbfree]

Le 19/10/2012 23:12, jpbfree a écrit :
> same problem here with a HP laptop.
>
> # lspcidrake -v | grep Wireless
> wl              : Broadcom Corporation|BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless 
> LAN Controller [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:14e4 device:4727 subv:103c 
> subd:1483) (rev: 01)
> btusb           : Broadcom Corp|Broadcom 2070 Bluetooth 
> [Wireless|Radio Frequency|Bluetooth] (vendor:0a5c device:21b4)
>
> in addition i cannot have a wireless connection when configure through 
> the gui,with or without network manager (no problem when configuring 
> with the wireless tools from the cmdline) and as  author said no 
> automatic reconection; even after a suspend to ram.
> and the network icon disapeared from the taskbar (KDE)
>
> # uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 3.6.2-desktop-1.mga3 #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 
> 20:45:11 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I have also to say that my usb mouse doesn't survive a suspend/resume 
> (i have to unplug and replug it)!
> no problem with the touchpad though.
>
> JPB
more on that.
If that can help narrowing down the problem here is what I did
(just after a reboot; wireless interface not working).



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# service network restart
Restarting network (via systemctl):  Job for network.service failed. See 
'systemctl status network.service' and 'journalctl' for details.
                                                                 [FAILED]
[root at localhost jpb]# systemctl status network.service
network.service - LSB: Bring up/down networking
           Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network)
           Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat, 20 Oct 2012 
11:19:23 +0200; 29s ago
          Process: 3167 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start 
(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
           CGroup: name=systemd:/system/network.service
                   └ 1423 /sbin/ifplugd -I -b -i eth1
Oct 20 11:19:22 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Bring 
up/down networking...
Oct 20 11:19:22 localhost.localdomain network[3167]: Bringing up 
loopback interface:  [  OK  ]
Oct 20 11:19:22 localhost.localdomain network[3167]: Configuring 
wireless regulatory domain  [  OK  ]
Oct 20 11:19:22 localhost.localdomain network[3167]: Bringing up 
interface eth0:  Sorry, there is already an instance of ifplugd for eth0 
running.
Oct 20 11:19:22 localhost.localdomain network[3167]: [FAILED]
Oct 20 11:19:23 localhost.localdomain network[3167]: Bringing up 
interface eth1:  Sorry, there is already an instance of ifplugd for eth1 
running.
Oct 20 11:19:23 localhost.localdomain network[3167]: [FAILED]
Oct 20 11:19:23 localhost.localdomain network[3167]: Bringing up 
interface wlan0:  ERROR    : [/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth] 
brcmsmac device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Oct 20 11:19:23 localhost.localdomain network[3167]: [FAILED]
Oct 20 11:19:23 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: 
Bring up/down networking.
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***nota:
I noticed that the interface name for the wireless card changed upon 
reboots !
It may be one of eth0, eth1 or even wlan0 ?

OTH

JPB