[arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows

[mercator]

Hi Vladimir,

In fact I've tried 'lspci -vnn | grep 14e4' before, and this is the output,
JUST one row:

10:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1693] (rev 02)

If I just type 'lspci' I will not find anything related to wireless card
either.

About the kubuntu thing, did you mean this?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349025

I've read it before open this thread. My problem is just the same as that
of stark222000: it's wifi card CANNOT be powered on, not that driver thing
listed in archwiki or linux wireless.

He solved it through booting into windows. But I don't have windows
installed and I don't want to install it anymore. So I opened this thread
as 'how to power on my wifi card' instead of 'my wifi card dose not work',
which will of course be classified as a driver issue.

And if I missed anything after my explanation, plz let me know. Thanks!

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:07:03 +0900, Vladimir Lomov wrote:

> Hello,
> ** mercator [2012-02-22 23:35:26 +0800]:
>
> > Hi guys,
>
> > After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to
> > show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but .... Below is
> > my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' :
>
> > 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M
> Gigabit
> > Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
>
> Sorry, if you find my answer a rude but did you use search engines? See
> wiki.archlinux.org? E.g.
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless
>
> IMHO, proper command must be
> $ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
>
> > My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off
> > etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power
> of
> > wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn
> wifi
> > on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know),
>
> Ah, broadcom and HP (6515b), something familiar. I remember a problem
> with HP notebook with broadcom wireless card about a year or two ago.
> The problem was solved by downloading kernel module source compiling
> then and installing (not Archlinux, Kubuntu).
>
> This Google returns me for "broadcom linux bcm4311"
>
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>
> > And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill
> list'
> > out put as follows :
>
> > 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
> >         Soft blocked: yes
> >         Hard blocked: yes
>
> > After 'rfkill unblock all', I get:
>
> > 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
> >         Soft blocked: no
> >         Hard blocked: yes
>
> > And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any way
> to
> > power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has
> > diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my
> > harddisk supporting windows install).
>
> ---
> WBR, Vladimir Lomov
>
> --
> FORTRAN rots the brain.
>                -- John McQuillin
>