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Any chance I can get help with broadcom BCM4313 wireless adapter

I may give it up, but just playing with an old laptop and looking at linux for the first real time and of course, the old laptop happens to have this network adapter… 🤦🏻

(BCM4313 802.11bgn). From the rabbit hole it’s a typical case, laptop tethers to phone fine. Ethernet during Debian 12 install (kde plasma). Detects my wifi but won’t connect (deactivated message).

In theory it should have been as easy as:

wiki.debian.org/wlor wiki.debian.org/brcm80211

Has to be the stupidest thing…

configuration: broadcast = yes driver = brcmsmac driverversion = 6.1.0-13-amd64 firmware = 610.812 ip = 172.20.10.5 latency = 0 link = yes multicast = yes wireless = IEEE 802.11

Perhaps similar to: lemm.ee/post/11454838

backhdlp ,
@backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

But at step 4, wl.ko does indeed exist lol

  1. (Optional) Check all the built DKMS kernel modules. There should be “wl.ko” in the list.

Pretty sure that’s how it’s supposed to be, especially since you just installed it in step 2. I don’t see your problem here.

Ringmasterincestuous OP ,

Thanks for your reply :-) – I just assumed that would be an issue as I go on to complete step 5 and 6 and still the same thing. I can see the wifi network and attempt to join and it never configures. Fun times

Ringmasterincestuous OP ,

sorry I read that as wl.ko should not be the list. I need to edit my post haha

rufus ,

We should tell people to post the relevant lines from the dmesg command, too. It usually tells if the killswitch is set or the module didn’t get loaded (properly).

Good luck with your old laptop 😄

bus_factor ,

So, you’re talking about ensuring the wl driver is loaded, but the dump at the end of your post says it’s using brcmsmac, a different driver for the same card. Looks like you have a mix of both now? It looks like wiki.debian.org/wl has a little script you can use to switch between the two, maybe try that.

BackOnMyBS ,
@BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world avatar

I just installed a broadcom 4xxx driver in KDE Neon a few days ago. The first few instructions I found didn’t work, something like *-dkms and *-source. But then, I found the command below. did you try:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

Ringmasterincestuous OP ,

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

It says unable to locate package, that’s ubuntu? That kind of loops me back around via forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=128386 to wiki.debian.org/wl

Eideen ,
@Eideen@lemmy.world avatar

packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bcmwl-kernel-…

bus_factor ,

Isn’t there a separate package with firmware? Maybe install firmware-brcm80211, firmware-misc-nonfree or something like that?

Ringmasterincestuous OP ,

firmware-misc-nonfree

I got - firmware-misc-nonfree is already the newest version (20230210-5).

& for firmware-brcm80211 I got - firmware-brcm80211 is already the newest version (20230210-5).

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