[Bug 844211] New: HW detection fails for BCM43228
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844211 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844211#c0 Summary: HW detection fails for BCM43228 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: volker3204@paradise.net.nz QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.34 (KHTML, like Gecko) konqueror/4.10.5 Safari/534.34 openSUSE 12.3 is unable to handle the wireless BCM43228 in a laptop. During installation and by yast there is no reaction. There is also nothing that tells the user the manfacturer and model of the wireless chip so one can start googling. The reason may be that hwinfo fails to detect this chip properly. Contrary to what all instructions say, hwinfo --wlan NEVER PRODUCES ANY OUTPUT. The b43 is too old to handle this chip, and the bcma driver (as suggested perhaps somewhat by grepping the output of hwinfo) is also no good for this chip. The only driver that works is the one in broadcom-wl. hwinfo and yast do not produce anything useable until after this module is loaded, which is no good to the user. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install openSUSE 12.3 on a laptop with BCM43228 wireless chip. 2. 3. Actual Results: User left hung out to dry. Expected Results: User is told what drivers exist for this chip. Adding approximately hwere to get it from would be brilliant. lspci has the only useful info: 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Ye Yuan
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Matt Chen
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Volker Kuhlmann
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Volker Kuhlmann
The main problem is that both hwinfo and yast produce no useable output whatever for what driver is needed or suggested for this hardware, leaving the user hanging out to dry.
As far as I could find out, of the 3 potential drivers for this hardware only the broadcom-wl driver is appropriate for this particular chip, and it does indeed work fine.
For yast, the appropriate course of action would be to suggest/offer to install the broadcom-wl package. Note yast MUST name the driver and package in the suggestion, because the repository in which this package is not a default one will probably not already be configured. The packages needed are
broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.100.82.112_k3.7.10_1.16-11.6.x86_64 broadcom-wl-5.100.82.112-11.6.x86_64
and are in packman/Essentials. Hmm....as I know, packman is still not default or mandatory to be in the openSUSE repository. Some of packages in packman are not open source. I do not
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Matt Chen
hwinfo should also provide the name of this driver.
The biggest problem in this situation is to find the name of the kernel module and package which one is supposed to use, locating them is usually trivial.
The laptop switch controls these two devices:
lspci 0a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10) lsusb Bus 002 Device 005: ID 413c:8187 Dell Computer Corp. DW375 Bluetooth Module
The wifi chip is a PCI device, not USB, so there is no PID/VID?
try "lspci -nnk".
I can provide more hardware info of course, if needed.
Thanks muchly -Volker.
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