Ubuntu Networking :: BCM4321 And Wl Driver Causes Lockups?
Sep 1, 2011
I've tried searching all over the place, and I'm drowning in outdated and contradictory information. I have a brand new Netgear WiFi PCI adapter. The exact model is "WN311B-100NAS N300" The related output of lspci is
Module Size Used by
lib80211_crypt_tkip 17387 0
wl 2568244 0
lib80211 14991 2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl
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So, I know it's using the BCM4321 chipset and wl driver. Ubuntu detected this card without any trouble, and I was able to use the "Additional Drivers" application to get it running before disconnecting my ethernet.
The card works well, and is very stable until I try to download a file larger than a few MB, or try to play a video stored on my home network. As soon as I try either of those, my computer locks up hard. No error messages. Just a hard lockup that I can't get out of with anything short of holding down the power button on my case until it cuts the power supply.
I have a BCM4321 and have not been able to get it to connect at N speeds, but finally got it working with broadcoms drivers from their site. The drivers in jockey would only get me b/g speed not n. Quote:Originally Posted by lshw -c network
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here is a small script that I wrote to assist others in getting it installed and working. First download the drivers from [URL]... then copy this into a script: compile.sh
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if the kernel changes then you will have to do this again. if you don't want that hassel and don't mind staying on your current kernel then lock it in the package manager.
I've been using Ubuntu for months now, and love it except for the fact that I'm getting poor speeds while using wireless.
For a little background information: I have a Dell XPS m1530 with a Broadcom BCM4321 wireless card.
I've used the 32-bit version and can't get ndiswrapper to work. It will say invalid driver or something.
When using the 64-bit version, my wireless card's native windows driver will install and it says "Hardware Present", but the wi-fi isn't activated at all.
I've followed the guide found here: url and have also tried this person's solution: url
However, nothing works. Despite the fact that ndiswrapper shows that my driver is installed, the wireless doesn't work.
I still try update my broadcom drivers, because when I try use airodump-ng i receive error.
This error:
Interface Chipset Driver
eth1 Unknown wl (monitor mode enabled)[code]....
I dont know why receive this error WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in /home/mobile/Desktop/wdriver/wl.o see include/linux/module.h for more information
I"m a newish Ubuntu user, but have been running some flavour or other for the last 5-6-7 years. Anyway, I just recently installed Maverick and have to say it's polished compared to the last version I tried ( maybe 6? ).
I am however having a frustrating issue while surfing the web. After a 2-3 minutes using firefox, 5-10 minutes using chromium - the whole system seems to lock up solid. The mouse/ keyboard no longer respond. I've read through a few log files and nothing seems to stand out, though I may be looking at the wrong place. I plan on running some system monitors, and top when I get home to see if they show me anything. Just thought I'd come here to ask for any other things to have a look at.
I have Ubuntu running on a Compaq desktop. Version 9.04 ran great but since upgrading to 9.10 it intermittently locks up. There is no rhyme or reason to the timing. Sometimes it is immediately after logging in but usually it is after the system has been running awhile. Sometimes it happens when I'm actively using it and sometimes when it is idle. It has never happened at the login screen, no matter how long I leave it.
Note that it is not a complete lockup. The mouse cursor moves, but no longer functions (i.e. you can't click anything). The keyboard does not work at all. For example Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and Ctrl-Alt-F5 do nothing. Disconnecting and reconnecting the mouse and keyboard does not help. Also, I can still access the system over the network using SMB and SSH, which leads me to believe that X or Gnome is where the problem lies.
Here are the troubleshooting steps I have done so far. As I said I can access the system using SSH, so I logged in and ran "top" to view CPU utilization. I found no process using more than 1% of the CPU. Also I examined the messages log and found "segfault" errors related to libc (?), USB and my keyboard, so as a test I traded my fancy wireless keyboard for a generic one. That has not helped. I'm not sure where to go from here. I've examined other logs but it is all Greek to me. There are entries that sound as if they could be errors but I'm not sure and the times of the errors don't match the times of the lockups anyway.
I am on 64-bit Natty and for the first time since my install a month ago, I have had a system hang requiring a power-off restart. It happened yesterday and a few moments ago.My question is that I want to troubleshoot this myself and wonder if the activities that my system were running just prior to crashing are recorded in a log file somewhere.I used to look int /var/log.messages or /var/log/boot, but this was in the Maverick days.
I had this problem at times with 11.2 as well; I use GNOME. I have intermittent lockups when invoking the screen saver either while idle or soon afterward while using Firefox; problem seems to not show up if I do not use a screen saver when idle.
Since upgrading to lucid, I have been experiencing regular system lockups. About once a day, my X desktop will disappear and I'll see a TTY with a few old console messages and at that point everything is completely frozen and I must hard reboot.
I have checked out various logs in /var/log and found nothing at all that indicates the system knew anything bad was happening. What is the correct approach to try to narrow this down?
it only seems to happen when im using wicd to change wireless access points several times in a short time span. i havent done anything out of the ordinary, installed packages off of sbopkg, and built my own kernel, but this happens in the stock kernel toothe following is what appears in syslog each time it happens
Code: Mar 7 13:12:14 null kernel: [ 1.714177] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:404 hpet_next_event+0x5f/0x81() Mar 7 13:12:14 null kernel: [ 1.714969] Hardware name: 3241
I have a fresh install of CentOS 5.5 on small thin client system with a 80G HDDs, 1 GB ram [URL], I have run into an issue where the system just locks up and freezes and I can no longer access it, cant ping it, cant use webmin and cant view its web pages. The system seemed to be running fine unitl I left it to do some updates via webmin as it informed me there were 118 updates. I really only use the system as a LAN captive network server, and it is currently in the testing phase for this setup. The install went on with no issues and it ran fine, but now every so often within 12 hours it just locks up and I have to reboot. kdump shows no logs so I am finding hard to work out what is going on. but have installed it on 5 of my servers 4x ibm x335 and this . I intend to use the mini server for a captive portal system displaying advertising and promotions to wireless clients.
My Ubuntu Karmic running system experiences random lockups. There is no pattern in when it will happen, it can go for days without one, or happen every couple hours. Only thing I can notice is that it happens most often when I run Firefox, but when it happens, it happens regardless of me having Firefox open on a website with lots of Flash content or not. When the lockup happens, I cannot move the mouse - the led light on my mouse shuts off, I can't move the cursor, the whole UI becomes unrensponsive, there is no blinking lights on the keyboard, REISUB does not work, only hitting the reset button on my case helps. After reboot, there are no indications of errors in any of the logs that I can see.I have ran memtest for 24 hours, and it completed without errors.
Additional information:
1. LSPCI output:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1697 HTT Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI Express Root Port 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI Express Root Port
wat is the advantage of introducing softlock feature in rhel? How user/admin will be benifitted if softlockup events are occoured? on the contrary, server dies if softlock happens.We hardly can take some preventive action against softlockups, but most of the times we are not able to do anything about softlockups?
I have installed the fglrx driver from "Hardware Drivers" and it runs fine, until I launch gnome3 or gnome-shell, it then just locks X (its not hard locked, I can CTRL + ALT + 2/3 etc out) but I cant do anything else.
If I use the mesa / xorg driver its fine.
The trouble is I play one game, and I need the fglrx driver for that game, the mesa one corrupts the 3d engine
It wouldnt be a pain, but i am one of the few who seems to find gnome-shell an improvement, and I get really frustrated when it wont work.
Any idea's on what I can try, other than hopfully having a working system when ATI launches the 10.10 driver on its website (although the leaked rc had the same issue) I only recently got a ATI card so I am pretty new when dealing with the ATI cat's.
I don't know if these are related, but I have had occasional lockups, where no input has any effect and then it shuts down, and am usually unable to resume from suspend on closing the lid.
Here are the specifics. Thinkpad x120e, AMD e-350, ATI radion 6310 graphics, Intel 320 series SSD 80 GB, no bluetooth.
The ethernet and wireless cards, as given in lspci, are
It has been haunting me for weeks and I haven't been able to fix it so far: When I installed the wireless driver 43XX series on my laptop using a wired internet, I saw the wireless network for a while and after I rebooted my system, My kernel(31) got corrupted and I got error "kernel Panic (and some sync error)",Thus I started using an older kernel(14),Now When I install wireless driver or mobile broadband driver(wvdial), they get vanished after the reboot and my mobile device modem isn't detected.But they are installed in my system(as shown by synaptic package manager but doesn't seemt to work) I desperately want to use mobile broadband.
How To: Uninstall/Remove Old Wireless Driver to make way for New Driver (RTL8191SE)?
Here's the new driver:
I have been having trouble with my wireless connection intermittently disconnecting and reconnecting repeatedly (sometimes every couple of seconds). I posted a thread about this here on Ubuntu Forums titled: Ubuntu 10.45 & NetworkManager Applet 8.0: Connects & Disconnects Frequently.
I have Centos5.4 loaded on a late 2008 MACBOOK Pro and would like to get wireless working. I've attempted to download the broadcom driver and create a driver module with no luck.
i had a suffer installing broadcom b43 or the brodcom STA driver i ended with STA in Hardware drivers i installed it and it's activated but not in use and i still have no wireless connection i'm on ubuntu 9.10
I've recently installed the new LTS, but my wireless doesn't work on it. Since my adaptor works on my machine under 9.10, I can only assume this is down to a lack of driver for my adaptor within 10.04.
Would it be feasible to find the driver within the 9.10 system for my adaptor and install it onto my 10.04 system? If it is, fantastic! How would I go about doing such a thing?
It's my first time trying out a Linux and everything is going great except for my networking. I just recently purchased a wireless usb adapter 802.11n and I tried to install the driver from the cd it came with, but when I read the readme file it said it only supports up to kernel versions 2.6.18 ~ 2.6.29. Since I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 my kernel type is 2.6.32.25. Does anyone know if there are any updated versions of similar drivers online? or do I have to return this wireless adapter and get a different one?
I have a Realtek nic in my laptop. When i look at additional drivers it says the driver is active but not in use. How do i make it use this driver and always use this driver?
Im using HP mini with Broadcom wireless chipset. Currently STA drivers are installed and working, however i want to install alternative wireless driver (b43-fwcutter) to be able to enter monitor mode (which this driver is capable of) for using it in wireshark and kismet.
Now, jockey-gtk isn't listing it although i installed it using 'sudo apt-get install b43-ffwcutter'. Why is that?
here is the output of sudo jockey-gtk -l kmod:wl - Broadcom STA wireless driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
i also tried sudo jockey-gtk -u (for updating driver databse but got same query)
I have a Netgear WNA-1000 that I can't get recognized on any of my Ubuntu boxes (8.10, 9.04, 9.10). This page says that it should work with the ar9170usb driver, and that this driver is already part of the mainline Linux kernel as of 2.6.30. It also noted that ar9170usb does not claim this device's USB-ID at this time.
How do I (a) get this driver to recognize and work with my WNA-1000 under 9.10?
(b) get this driver installed and working under the older versions of Ubuntu that I also have?
I used the System -> Administration -> Hardware Driver and found 2 drivers. I have tried them both to connect to my D-Link Router. Neither of which worked.
For Broadcom B43 Driver, the wireless is able to detect wireless networks. However, it fails to establish connection.
For Broadcom STA Driver, the wireless cannot even detect wireless networks available.
What is the issue here and how do I resolve it so that I am able to connect onto the internet wirelessly?
I have bean trying to uzip and install the ndiswrappper driver for my Atheros AR5212/AR5213, well first I can not finde the driver on line, secondly I have tried to unzip the driver from the CD that came with Atheros AR5212/5213 that did not work "WDA2320.exe"plus the ndiswrapper help files are not explanatory enough for the different scenarios, thirdly I installed the ndiswrapper interface that installs on the desk top, that worked for a while then stopped altogether, I have bean working on this ,on and off for about a year,my O/S is Debian Lenny Betta -2- i386 I have attached a document coled Atheros doc pertaining to the hard ware in my P/C
I'm having problems with (no surprise) my Broadcom BCM4322 Network Adapter after a clean install of 9.10. I am just about tearing my hair out.
1. I downloaded Broadcom's provided Linux drivers. No joy.
2. I installed first the STA package, then b43-fwcutter. No joy.
3. I installed NDISwrapper, but cannot find the .inf file I need. Anyone? I dual boot with Vista, so I went into my Windows system and pulled a .inf file from the driver files there (bcmwl6.inf), but NDISwrapper said it was not valid. I have looked all over the web for a .inf driver file for this chipset but cannot seem to find anything (all I can find is .exe files).
I have the source code to create a wireless driver. This came with the cd for my adapter but i dont know what to do. btw while i'm in ubuntu i will not have a wired conection to the net seeing as my routers down stairs and i dont have a cable long enough to reach
