[Fwd: fedora18: Wireless Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n]

[Dario Lesca]

Il giorno ven, 05/04/2013 alle 23.27 +0100, Sérgio Basto ha scritto:
> On Ter, 2013-04-02 at 06:36 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: 
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Dario Lesca <d.lesca at solinos.it>
> > Reply-to: Development discussions related to Fedora
> > <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > To: Fedora Devel <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Cc: Fedora Users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Subject: fedora18: Wireless Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n
> > Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:05:45 +0200
> > 
> > Hi, My netbook Asus have this network Wireless controller:
> > 
> > > 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
> > > 	Subsystem: AzureWave Device 2107
> > > 	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3
> > > 	Memory at f7d00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
> > > 	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
> > > 	Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
> > > 	Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> > > 	Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
> > > 	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
> > > 	Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
> > > 	Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-d9-ff-ff-09-6c-71
> > > 	Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
> > 
> > and not work out of the box or with rpmfusion's wl driver.
> > 
> > For now I have found this howto:
> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-282334.html
> > 
> > and with this procedure:
> > 
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > #
> > > # http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-282334.html
> > > 
> > > set -x
> > > dtmp=$(mktemp -d)
> > > 
> > > # wget -c http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-bcm43142/wireless-bcm43142-dkms_6.20.55.19-1_amd64.deb
> > > rpm -q dpkg || yum install dpkg
> > > 
> > > dpkg-deb -x wireless-bcm43142-dkms_6.20.55.19-1_amd64.deb $dtmp
> > > 
> > > cd $dtmp/usr/src/wireless-bcm43142-6.20.55.19/
> > > 
> > > make API=WEXT
> > > 
> > > mkdir -p /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/wl
> > > rm -f /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/wl/wl.ko
> > > cp ./wl.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/wl/.
> > > 
> > > depmod -a 
> > > 
> > > modprobe -r wl
> > > sleep 2
> > > ip a
> > > 
> > > modprobe wl
> > > sleep 2
> > > ip a
> > > 
> > > cd
> > > rm -rf $dtmp
> > 
> > the wl driver work fine.
> > 
> > My question is: There is an official Fedora driver (embedded, akmod or
> > kmod) for this (bcp43142) wireless network card?
> 
> 
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2550
> Review request: wl-bcm43142-kmod - X86_64 Kernel module for Broadcom
> wireless devices BCM43142
> 
> it match , is waiting for review in meantime you may test it . 
> 

Thank Sérgio, now I'm subscribed to rpmfusion-user list.

I have download these src.rpm
> $ wget \ 
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25699833/rpmfusion/Rawhide/wl-bcm43142-kmod/wl-bcm43142-kmod-6.20.55.19-1.fc19.src.rpm \
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25699833/rpmfusion/Rawhide/broadcom-wl-bcm43142/broadcom-wl-bcm43142-6.20.55.19-1.fc19.src.rpm

then I have rebuild them with:
> $ rpmbuild --rebuild \
> broadcom-wl-bcm43142-6.20.55.19-1.fc19.src.rpm \
> wl-bcm43142-kmod-6.20.55.19-1.fc19.src.rpm

then I have install it with:
> sudo yum install \
> rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/broadcom-wl-bcm43142-6.20.55.19-1.fc18.noarch.rpm \
> rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kmod-wl-bcm43142-6.20.55.19-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm \
> rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/akmod-wl-bcm43142-6.20.55.19-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm

and test it. Work.

But only if I connect to my and other router wifi with mode
infrastructure. If I connect to my server firewall, witch share our
wireless network card mode "ad-hoc" do not work.

On another Notebook with another BCM network card and wl driver, I had
rebuild the driver and use "make API=WEXT", in this mode i can connect
to both mode.

With  wl-bcm43142 I could not try, but I think that would work.
If you're interested, I can try in a few days.

Do you have some suggest for me?

Many thanks, and sorry for my bad English.
 
-- 
Dario Lesca - sip:dario at solinos.it
(Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora18+Gnome3)