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Broadcom 4311, 4312, 4313, 4321, 4322,

43224, 43225 devices (wl)

This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on Broadcom

4311/4312/4313/4321/4322/43224/43225 chipsets - using Broadcom's hybrid device

driver - on Debian systems.

Tabla de Contenidos

Broadcom 4311, 4312, 4313, 4321, 4322, 43224, 43225 devices (wl)

Installation

Lenny1.

Squeeze2.

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Known Issues2.

Supported Devices3.

See Also4.

External Links5.

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Some Broadcom wireless LAN chipsets are unsupported by the reverse-engineered b43

driver at this time, including:

BCM4321 (PCI-IDs: 14E4:4328, 14E4:4329, 14E4:432A)

BCM4322 (PCI-IDs: 14E4:432B, 14E4:432C, 14E4:432D)

Support of these chipsets is possible using a driver (wl) made available by the vendor,

which includes a binary-only component targeted for the x86 or x86-64 architecture. All

supported devices are listed at the end of this page.

This vendor driver depends on the x86 or x86-64 architecture (Debian i386 and

AMD64 ports respectively) at this time.

The BCM4313, BCM43224 and BCM43225 chipsets are alternatively supported by

the brcm80211 driver.

Installation

Lenny

wl - Debian Wiki http://wiki.debian.or

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Install the DebianPkg: build-essential, DebianPkg: debhelper,

DebianPkg: module-assistant, DebianPkg: quilt and DebianPkg: wireless-tools

packages:

$ su

# aptitude update

# aptitude install build-essential debhelper module-assistant

quilt wireless-tools

# exit

1.

Manually acquire the DebianPkg: squeeze/broadcom-sta-source package from

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/broadcom-sta-source/download. For

example:

$ wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/b

/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta-source_5.60.48.36-2_all.deb

2.

Manually acquire the DebianPkg: squeeze/broadcom-sta-common package fromhttp://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/broadcom-sta-common/download. For

example:

$ wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/b

/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta-common_5.60.48.36-2_all.deb

3.

Install the DebianPkg: squeeze/broadcom-sta-common and

DebianPkg: squeeze/broadcom-sta-source packages via dpkg:

$ su# dpkg -i broadcom-sta-*deb

4.

Build and install a broadcom-sta-modules-* package for your system, using

Module-Assistant:

# m-a a-i broadcom-sta

5.

Blacklist the brcm80211 module, to prevent it conflicting for support of

BCM4313, BCM43224 and BCM43225 devices:

# echo blacklist brcm80211 >> /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-

sta-common.conf

6.

Rebuild your initial ramdisk, to blacklist modules defined at /etc/modprobe.d

/broadcom-sta-common.confwithin initramfs:

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# update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r)

Unload conflicting modules:

# modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcm80211

8.

Load the wl module:

# modprobe wl

9.

Verify your device has an available interface:

# iwconfig

10.

Configure your wireless interface as appropriate.11.

Squeeze

Add a "non-free" component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

# Debian Squeeze (testing)

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib

non-free

1.

Update the list of available packages. Install the DebianPkg: module-assistant and

DebianPkg: wireless-tools packages:

# aptitude update

# aptitude install module-assistant wireless-tools

2.

Build and install a broadcom-sta-modules-* package for your system, using

Module-Assistant:

# m-a a-i broadcom-sta

3.

Blacklist the brcm80211 module, to prevent it conflicting for support of

BCM4313, BCM43224 and BCM43225 devices:

# echo blacklist brcm80211 >> /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-

sta-common.conf

4.

Rebuild your initial ramdisk, to blacklist modules defined at /etc/modprobe.d

/broadcom-sta-common.confwithin initramfs:

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# update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r)

Unload conflicting modules:

# modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcm80211

6.

Load the wl module:

# modprobe wl

7.

Verify your device has an available interface:

# iwconfig

8.

Configure your wireless interface as appropriate.9.

Known Issues

The Sonics Silicon Backplane driver (ssb) conflicts with the wl driver ( Closed in

broadcom-sta/5.10.91.9.3-3: #545388: In /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-

sta-common.conf, b43 should be b44.: 545388, broadcom-

sta-common/README.Debian).

b44, b43, b43legacy and ssb are blacklisted by default as of broadcom-sta

5.10.91.9.3-3.

This prevents use of any Ethernet device supported by b44.

Frequent disconnections can be experienced. This may be resolved by disabling

power management via DebianMan: iwconfig(8) (e.g.

iwconfig eth1 power off).

Monitor mode is not supported.

See bugs reported on DebianBug: broadcom-sta.

Supported Devices

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI explains how to identify a PCI device.

The following list is based on the alias fields ofmodinfo wl as of driver version

5.60.48.36:

PCI: 14E4:4311 Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN


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PCI: 14E4:4312 Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g

PCI: 14E4:4313 Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a

PCI: 14E4:4315 Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY

PCI: 14E4:4328 Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n

PCI: 14E4:4329 Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11b/g/n

PCI: 14E4:432A Broadcom Corporation BCM4321

PCI: 14E4:432B Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN

Controller

PCI: 14E4:432C Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11b/g/n

PCI: 14E4:432D Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n

PCI: 14E4:4353 Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n

PCI: 14E4:4357 Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n

PCI: 14E4:4727 Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN

Controller

See Also

bcm43xx - Broadcom 43xx wireless devices

brcm80211 - Broadcom 4313, 43224, 43225 devices

How to use a WiFi interface

NDISwrapper

External Links

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php - 802.11 Linux STA

driver

CategoryHardware | CategoryWireless


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