[SOLVED] BCM4318 activation (blacklist b43)

[zAchAry]

I am failing to utilize a PCI wireless adapter BCM4318 (is supported).

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$ lspci -nn -d 14e4:
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)

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# dmesg | grep b43
[    6.716329] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[    6.733183] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 3, Type 2 (G), Revision 7
[    6.740030] b43-phy0 ERROR: Failed to validate the chipaccess

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$ iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

I have installed b43-firmware from SBo.

[icaroperseo]

Problems with the kernel version, perhaps?

[zAchAry]

Please be more specific.

I did this:

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# cat /lib/modprobe.d/bcm43xx.conf>/etc/modprobe.d/bcm43xx.conf

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##############################################################################
# Do not edit this file; instead, copy it to /etc/modprobe.d/ and edit that
##############################################################################

# Deprecated BCM4318 driver.
blacklist bcm43xx

I have added this line:

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blacklist b43

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##############################################################################
# Do not edit this file; instead, copy it to /etc/modprobe.d/ and edit that
##############################################################################

# Deprecated BCM4318 driver.
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist b43

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# dmesg | grep -e b43 -e wlan
[    6.716329] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[    6.733183] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 3, Type 2 (G), Revision 7
[    6.740030] b43-phy0 ERROR: Failed to validate the chipaccess
[26761.403546] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[26761.419140] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 3, Type 2 (G), Revision 7

I have a new interface (wlan0).

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$ iwconfig 
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

It appears to function.