[SOLVED] Broadcom Wireless issue

[ohjrson]

Hey,
    Seems I have an issue with my Broadcom on an Aspire 3000. I know there was one before and I have tried those solutions to no resolve. Two things that are happening.

1. the Wireless quit working on me when I did a reboot after the initial updates. I installed 2.0 and things were just fine. It even remembered the wireless password and auto connected when it rebooted into the fresh install.

I did my updates and all and then rebooted again. This time it did not start the wireless and could no longer see a wireless. I thought oh I must have hit the switch or something. So I hit the switch and nothing happened. So I rebooted again. Same result, no wireless.

So I came on here (which I was already on singing praise and all) and looked for wireless information issues, Found one with another Broadcom Wireless and tried those things. (as noted above) Nothing.
So here I am thinking... Alright it was working before the update. What was it using prior to the update. Would that be on the live CD? hmmm Better ask Valtam. So here I am.

2. I have noticed that when I shut down the system Or try to restart it. It takes the full length of the bar on the splash screen and then just sits there. I have to hold the power button for 5 seconds to shut it off....

Any Ideas?

Stupid Broadcom.....

Oh yeah I had also installed Play on Linux prior to this happening. Will that make a difference? I did not install anything though.

update:
I rebooted into the live usb I used for install and it works great as I suspected. So.... where do I get that driver?

[bitsnpcs]

Hello ohjrson,

I looked on Synaptic Package Manager,  - Menu>System>Install/Remove Software
and typed Broadcom into the search, it shows this -

broadcom-sta-source
broadcom-sta-dkms

"Broadcom STA is a binary-only device driver to support the following IEEE
802.11a/b/g/n wireless network cards: BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-,
BCM4321-, BCM4322-, BCM43224-, BCM43225-, BCM43227-, and BCM43228-based
hardware".

Is it any of these Broadcom devices ?

[ohjrson]

No it is a BCM4318 Why?

[bitsnpcs]

I had found info and a guide on Broadcom for those.

Here is a Guide For BCM4318.

[ohjrson]

:o :o ok I am confused. My synaptic says that I have that installed, the b43 opensource driver. or b43-fwcutter in synaptic. Yet it still will not work for me. I can however load up the usb again andi t works. It was also working in v1.08 flawlessly. Why is it not working now.

When I try to do what is suggested all I get is this: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

What the heck is going on? or what am I doing wrong here?

[bitsnpcs]

Hello,
this seems to be the way people install and ensure it loads from boot Source of Code ?

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
$ wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
$ tar xf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
$ cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/
$ sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ wl_apsta_mimo.o
$ sudo modprobe b43
$ sudo echo "b43" >> /etc/modules

Known Issues and solutions for this driver b43 Developers Site.

[ohjrson]

This is what I got when I did all that. :
ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$ $ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
$: command not found
ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$ $ wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broad....5.tar.bz2
$: command not found
ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$ $ tar xf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
$: command not found
ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$ $ cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/
$: command not found
ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$ $ sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ wl_apsta_mimo.o
$: command not found
ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$ $ sudo modprobe b43
$: command not found
ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$ $ sudo echo "b43" >> /etc/modules
bash: /etc/modules: Permission denied
ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$

I will also let you know that I went into synaptic and removed what was in synaptic. Although I did have it running. Let me close that and try again.

Back, nope that did not make a difference. Re-installed b43 fwcutter and tried again. I got same message: command not found....

I am totally confused right now......

[bitsnpcs]

Can you try it with only 1 of these $ at the beginning of each line.
Example, if you have entered sudo, and when asked, your password, then it will already have the $ displayed on each line.

[ohjrson]

Yes and I get the same result. command not found. ( i thought of that too)

oops wait a minute I see what you mean, did not see that doing that. Anyway this is what I get: ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter[sudo] password for ohjrson:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
Synaptic is open. should i close it? I think i will try it... Hang on.

OK closed synaptic and did it again this is what I got and I did remove them. :
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libcdr-0.0-0 libmspub-0.0-0 liborcus-0.6-0 libvisio-0.0-0 libwpd-0.9-9
  libwpg-0.2-2 libwps-0.2-2 module-assistant
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 5,279 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 142863 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libcdr-0.0-0 (0.0.15-1ubuntu1) ...
Removing libmspub-0.0-0 (0.0.6-1ubuntu2) ...
Removing liborcus-0.6-0 (0.5.1-7) ...
Removing libvisio-0.0-0 (0.0.31-1ubuntu2) ...
Removing libwps-0.2-2 (0.2.9-2ubuntu1) ...
Removing libwpg-0.2-2 (0.2.2-1ubuntu1) ...
Removing libwpd-0.9-9 (0.9.9-1) ...
Removing module-assistant (0.11.6) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ..

Now what?

[bitsnpcs]

Yes and I get the same result. command not found. ( i thought of that too)

oops wait a minute I see what you mean, did not see that doing that. Anyway this is what I get: ohjrson@ohjrson-Aspire-3000:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter[sudo] password for ohjrson:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
Synaptic is open. should i close it? I think i will try it... Hang on.

Do you only have wifi or do you have hard wired ethernet too ?

Code:

sudo apt-get install

Will d/l and install , without wifi or ethernet , it will be unable to d/l it and would produce a result something like (unsure of wording) "Resource temporarily unavailable" eg; you cannot d/l without the connection.

Can you do this please  -
Menu>Settings>Install Drivers
and state which drivers have their radio buttons ticked ?

Or post a screenshot of the driver window, forum images need to be hosted somewhere such as TinyPic, no account or login required, or other sites where this may differ.
You then use the image icon in menu above text editing window and place url between img tags.