Broadcom 4322 WLAN in HP ProBook 4515s, working driver
RHEL 6.4 does not bind to my Broadcom 4322 WLAN adapter, although I can see the adapter in lspci and lsmod. When I add the adapter and enter the MAC the Network Connections aplet does not report an error. When I enter the command "service network restart" I get the following message:
Bringing up interface Wireless_connection_1: Error: No suitable device found: no device found for connection 'Wireless connection 1'.
[FAILED]
Is there an easy fix for this? I have spent hours today on the web looking for answers, but all I find are directions on how to download code, run myriad commands to de-tar, unzip, make, grep, flip and flop it around--all with no success.
I have three identical HP ProBook 4515s laptops, and the other two run Windows and the wireless adapter works fine in both of them. I don't have the time or the inclination to mess around getting it to work. Does RHEL not support the BCM 4322? If not, which distro should I be running?
Thanks!
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Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
Going on the connection name "Wireless connection 1", it sounds like you might have used the graphical environment and NetworkManager to configure the wireless connection.
If that's the case, then you should use NetworkManager in the graphical environment to configure the network interfaces.
Be aware that there are two ways to manage the network, the "network scripts" which are invoked when you run "service network restart" and NetworkMananger, represented by the network icon next to the clock in the graphical environment. Often the two will interfere with each other, so you should use one or the other.
Usually we see RHEL deployed on server which never enters a graphical runlevel and where the network setup never changes, in these cases, the network service is the best option and we recommend to disable NetworkManager.
For an environment like a laptop where you're likely connecting to various different networks (wireless, VPN, ethernet, etc), the graphical environment and NetworkManager can be an easier way to manage these, so running the network scripts is not the correct way to manage the network.
If you are in the graphical environment with NetworkManager and have a need to stop and start networking, you can right click on the NetworkManager icon and tick or untick "Enable Networking".
Red Hat
Guru
3695 points
Kelly,
Have you taken a look at:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
Looks like this might work if you update the firmware using a Fedora version of b43-fwcutter, since the RHEL 6 fwcutter might not support this firmware.
I also don't see that laptop on the HCL at http://hardware.redhat.com so there might be a few issues with that laptop as being supported on RHEL 6.
Hope this helps!
Andrius.
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