[arch-general] problems with wifi b43 (broadcom)

[Thanos Zygouris]

On Sat 14 Jul 22:59, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara
> <jesse.jaara at gmail.com> wrote:
> > la, 2012-07-14 kello 21:54 +0100, Leonidas Spyropoulos kirjoitti:
> >> I can't seem to be able to get an IP. I am including the logs as well.
> >>
> >> I tried disabling the ipv6 with no luck (so I revert it).
> >> I tried with a usb wifi card and it's working fine.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> > How did you try to get the ip? dhcpcd? Does manually setting ip wok?
> > Also you need to paste the logs into the message or some pastebin
> > service, Arch's mailing lists stip out any attachments
> 
> I am using dhcpd and it's working because against the same router the
> usb wifi card works.
> Also I had some progress:
> I managed to configure and make the Broadcom card work with
> broadcom-wl drivers (propretiery)
> According to the wiki
> (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless) though this
> is not recomended and I would prefer to use the b43 driver.
> 
> my kernel messages can be found here:
> http://pastebin.com/gjYG7v9a
> 
> I assume that dhcpd daemon works fine because on all other interfaces
> (and even on the wlan0 with wl driver) works fine.
> I used the firmware from AUR.
> 

I also have a D4300 and is working fine with b43 driver...i use wicd for
network manager.