Questions tagged [broadcom]
This tag relates to Broadcom, a semiconductor manufacturer, its products, their drivers and firmware. It's advisable to complement this tag with a product type one, such as /modem or /networkcard. Specific product tags like /bcm4322 are possible, but are not popular and may need to be introduced by you.
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Linux Mint 21 - Broadcom 43142 - wifi stopped working
I'm using Mint 21 on an HP 17-y002na laptop. It's been connected via ethernet cable for much of the time since I updated to 21, but has had wifi capability at times. Last week I noticed that the ...
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What is brcmfmac exactly showing me during the core check?
I've been playing with tweaking the nvram text file for my wireless card (BCM43602 on a macbook pro).
I've found a couple wireless nvram programming references on which certain parameters (for example ...
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MacBook Pro's wifi doesn't work on a fresh Pop!_OS install
I have a MacBook Pro 16, and decided to install Pop!_OS on it.
My system info is:
OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS x86_64
Host: MacBookPro16,2 1.0
Kernel: 6.2.6-76060206-generic
My Network controller is a ...
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Wi-Fi: too many "Tx excessive retries" and "Invalid misc"
I have an old laptop running LXLE (an Ubuntu-based distro) with a Broadcom BCM4311 Wi-Fi card, and although Wi-Fi connection works, data transfer speed is at roughly half of what it should be when ...
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How can I install drivers for Broadcom BCM4364 Wireless Network Adapter on Linux Mint 21.1?
I've installed Mint 21.1 on a iMac 21.5" 2019. Everithing work fine excluding the Wi-FI. I Cannot use it. I've already tried to search on the web but i didn't find nothing for my network card ...
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WIFI on Dell XPS 13 9343 (Broadcom BCM4352 Card) not working anymore on Debian Bookworm
I feel sorry for bringing this up again, but suddenly my WIFI adapter (Broadcom BCM4352) stopped working on my Debian Bookworm installation.
I think it stopped after an update, but I am not sure.
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sfp and sfp28 compatibility
I have gotten a server which has "Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter" When I connect it to a switch port which is sfp the link status on the server is reported as ...
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Arch fresh install, SSH hangs and times out
I just finished configuring a fresh install of Arch on a Macbook Pro mid-2012 (9,2).
It has a Broadcom wireless modem (chip 4331) that works for internet browsing with my current configuration.
SSH ...
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Getting broadcom 57711 card working on openmediavault/debian install
I'm trying to activate the dual 10gb ports on my broadcom 57711 card in a dell R710 server. THe issue is that the ports are not UP. If I run ifconfig -a I see the ports listed, missing the UP flag of ...
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B43 accessing device memory
I've been tasked with making a custom kernel module that reads the memory of a NIC device, from the family of Broadcom chipsets.
In my case I'm using a BCM4311, have installed the firmware and the ...
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Can't connect to the Wi-Fi, broadcom issue?
Before saying that I am lazy to search for solution, hear me out.
I installed pop os 22.04 LTS on my laptop and I try to connect to the Wi-Fi, typed the password and the system tells me that it ...
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How to record screen when using eglfs on Broadcom VideoCore IV
I have a full-screen Qt app running on a Raspberry Pi 3 using the "eglfs" platform. It draws using KMS/DRM and the /dev/dri/core0 GPU device. The GPU is a Broadcom VideoCore IV.
I'd like to ...
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Banana PI M2M (allwinner A33/R16) WiFI drivers in mainline kernel
I'm trying to get the WiFi working on a Banana PI M2M using the mainline kernel.
The device tree definition of the banana pi m2m is very incomplete sun8i-r16-bananapi-m2m.dts I successfully managed to ...
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Searching for Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries Device b844 (rev 02) driver
I'm running Debian 11 5.10.0-9-amd64. I've got an A10Networks Thunder TPS 4435 Network Appliance with 16 SFP+ Ports that are connected to one Broadcom network chip. In the original software, the ...
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Timeouts associating Wifi interface with a specific AP
By now, the problem stated here has not been solved but it has gone away. I am using a different interface that works fine.
Perhaps this is a question for another Stackexchange forum, but since this ...
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Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet appearing as unclaimed on ubuntu 20.04
I'm new to linux & I'm trying to add external ethernet NIC to hpe dl380 gen9 server, the os is ubuntu 20.04.
I can't find the NICs using ifconfig, and after some googling I used
lshw -C network ...
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Persistent WiFi connectivity problems in Kali Linux
I have been having WiFi trouble for months now, and I've tried all manner of solutions with no change.
Hardware: Mid 2012 MacBook Pro unibody, 16gb RAM and 500gb Samsung SSD
OS: Kali Linux 2021.2 with ...
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brcmfmac, brcmfmac_module_init No platform data available
I've update my kernel version from 4.11 to 5.4.3-g9c2490ac8-dirty #3 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 8 12:11:16 UTC 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux
I have an issue with brcmfmac kernel module. I have enabled brcmfmac debug ...
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bcmwl-kernel-source not working with kernel 5.11.0-7612-generic
I've spent the last hours trying to figure out how to get my wifi working. Today I updated from Pop_OS 20.04 to 20.10. Everything worked fine, but after an hour my 5GHz Wifi connection stated ...
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Ethernet Not Connecting on Linux Mint
About 2 weeks ago I installed an antivirus (ESET nod32) on my Mint 20.1 server. However, after discovering that it is not at all optimized for Linux (blocked basically all my ports + connections and ...
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Internal wifi card (BCM43142, Ubuntu 20.04) stopped seeing my home wifi network
This is a strange one, just like the title says one day I woke up, turned on my computer(Dell Inspiron 3521, Ubuntu 20.04) everything was as usual, except the computer didn't connect to the internet. ...
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Void Linux - Broadcom network adapter [14e4:43a0] appears, but will not connect to a network
Void Linux with kernel 5.9.16_1.
I'm using NetworkManager on KDE Plasma 5.
Whenever I attempt to connect to a network with this adapter, Plasma says "configuring interface" for a while, and ...
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How to get to monitor mode Kali Linux on Rasberry pi 4? (airmon-ng, iwconfig don't work)
Method 1: Airmon-ng - (don't work)
airmon-ng check kill
airmon-ng start wlan0
Make wlan0mon, everything looks fine, but after some time (around 50 seconds) using some tools like airgeddon or airlay-...
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How to get wifi working on 2014 MacBook Air with a newly installed Pop!_os?
Here is what I did so far.
Installed Pop!_os using a USB drive replacing the Mac OS
Tried installing the Wifi drivers using these instructions. I did sudo apt update and sudo update-pciids
To know my ...
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Wifi connected but no internet on MacBook Air 1,1 2008 (or working but unstable) - stable fix
There is a recurrent and very much difficult to solve instability of the wifi connection on the 2008 MacBook Air due to the chipset, causing various trouble on Ubuntu ranging from
connection to Wifi ...
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I'm not able to connect to wifi on Debian 10
I've installed Debian 10.5 few days ago, after playing with drives and packages I was able to set up required broadcom drivers and was able to connect to wifi.
Because I've accomplished my mission I ...
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Last Resort: No wifi on Kali
I guess this is a common issue, but I've had no success with any other answers. I'm trying to install kali uname= 5.7.0-kali1-686-pae on a Dell Latitude D610. lspci tells me that I have
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Configuring BCM4360 (MacBook Air) on FreeBSD to connect to WiFi
I just installed FreeBSD 12.1 RELEASE on my MacBook Air 13-inch Early 2015, and one of the notable problems is the lack of WiFi due to the bwn kernel module not being loaded. I loaded it and told the /...
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Wifi keeps reconnecting and asking for passphrase in Manjaro XFCE
I'm connecting to a local WiFi network with a normal setup (see system specs below), that is a Fritz!Box router and a WiFi repeater to increase range. Usually all is well, I have a normal connection ...
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Kali - lspci will not list Network controller
I'm running Kali linux through VirtualBox on my Macbook Pro 10,1.
I've ben having trouble getting my wireless card to work or even be recognized. When I run lspci the ethernet controller will show ...
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How to get Broadcom drivers working in Linux Mint 19.3 without network access?
I'd like to install Linux Mint (Xfce) with Broadcom support, when I don't have network access after a fresh Mint install. I've already read the answers here, which all require network access of some ...
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Macbook Pro late 2013 WiFi flaky
My WiFi is very flaky.
I installed broadcom-wl-dkms
broadcom-wl-dkms 6.30.223.271-20
[dewi@DEWILAPTOP modprobe.d]$ uname -a
Linux DEWILAPTOP 5.4.13-arch1-1-macbook #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 13 11:22:...
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Debian 9 installer to support BCM4360
I plan to install Debian 9 to my Apple Desktop, which has a Broadcom BCM4360 (PCI IDs 14e4:43a0, 14e4:4360) in it. The installer says "Broadcom 4360 WLAN found" but complains "unsupported phy".
This ...
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Wireless card keeps connecting then disconnecting
I have a Broadcom BCM43142 chip, it works normally as of Debian 9. But after upgrading to Debian 10, it displays this weird behavior of automatically disconnecting from WiFi, reconnecting successfully ...
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No network at 3rd stage of PXE Boot
I try to boot with PXE an Ubuntu Image made from debootstrap on a Dell PowerEdge M610 with a Broadcom NetXtrem II (BCM 5709S) (bnx2 driver).
When i try to boot, everythings goes well at the bios ...
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bluetooth.service running, but bluetoothctl says "org.bluez.Error.NotReady"
my raspberry pi 3 model B, running Arch, has an issue with bluetooth. First of all:
Bluetooth has worked flawlessly previously
pi-bluetooth from the AUR is up to date
bluez and bluez-utils are up to ...
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Boot a Debian firmware-nonfree netinstall USB device with GRUB2
I have an Apple MacMini Intel running a Debian Stretch (no BIOS-like boot list, just standard GRUB2).
I would like to boot on a USB device to set a fresh new installation, with the latest firmware-...
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Cannot connect to wireless wifi and cannot manually install drivers
I've been trying to set up SparkyLinux for the past hours, and I can't seem to get the internet connection working. I'm dual booting it on a USB through my Mac, and it seems that the drivers for my ...
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BCM2046 Bluetooth not working on Arch Linux
Having installed Arch, I have now got down to the task of configuring it and getting all the hardware to work. I managed to get my WiFi working,
but my Bluetooth still does not work. I have followed ...
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How to diagnose a slow network on Fedora 28?
Experiencing very slow network throughput on my linux Fedora 28 box.
Barely getting over 4 MB/s down (~39 Mbps) using speedtest-cli, I can sometimes get near 8 MB/s down using wget to download test ...
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Can't connect to 5GHz network on Broadcom BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4359]
Whenever I try to connect to my 5 GHz network, my KDE Network Manager takes a while on "configuring interface", where then I am prompted to enter a password. I enter the network password, but the ...
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Broadcom Chipset Router - Reset Base MAC address [OpenWRT]
I have a Dlink DSL-2750U (Hardware version: C1) router. The router seems to have forgotten its MAC address and is showing the base MAC address as 00:10:18:00:00:00 which is the default.
I have ...
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After upgrading to Fedora 28: broadcom-wl installed but WiFi doesn't work
This is another one in a long line of problems of this sort.
After a recent upgrade from Fedora 27 to Fedora 28, broadcom-wl stopped working. The Broadcom adapter in question is an older BCM4312.
To ...
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How do I make Debian 9 detect network hardware?
While programming, without big deals, the wifi stoped working. I tryed to unload and load the b43 drivers my wifi uses, but didn't work, tired, I decided to do a fresh install of debian 9.4.
I did so, ...
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Dell laptop won't connect to 5GHz network
My cellphone connects just fine to the 5Ghz network, so I know it is up and functioning properly. My Dell Inspiron though, running elementary OS Loki which is based on Ubuntu 16.04, refuses to do so ...
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freebsd Broadcom 4322 wireless card issue
I thought it would be fun to try out FreeBSD and had an old MacBook Pro (13 “ mid 2009) which I could screw around with. Everything was going pretty good until I tried to connect to my wifi network. I’...
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Unstable wifi card causes the entire computer to freeze
I run Debian 9 on an old MacBook. I strongly suspect there is some hardware problem on the WiFi-card, because it drops connection relatively often on Linux. On macOS, it connects very slowly and the ...
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Broadcom Wireless PCI Card BMC4360 14e4:43a0 cannot get drivers working
I have a problem similar to this:
Unable to get Broadcom wireless drivers working on Arch Linux
But in my case, loading the broadcom-wl-dkms driver did not work. I am new to this, so maybe the ...
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Debugging kernel panic in Solaris system
I'm having a Solaris 11.3 i86pc where I have observed kernel panic after OS reboot. Below are the stack traces obtained in core dump file after the kernel panic:
> ::stack
vpanic()
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systemd-udevd high cpu usage
Few days ago I installed Antergos on my old Dell laptop with Broadcom BCM2046 Bluetooth. Since then I'm having issues with bluetooth.
First, no adapters were found. This was somehow solved (I'm not ...
