Wireless Adapter not functioning - New RHEL 6.4 Desktop on Dell E6530

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Hi, I'm having a little trouble getting my wireless NIC working with RHEL 6.4.  lspci shows that the NIC is installed, but I don't see a wireless adapter in ifconfig -a.

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n

There are a lot of solutions on the web and I just replaced Ubuntu which was working fine.  What is the proper way to troubleshoot and resolve this?

Thanks.

 

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Fabio Da Cunha's picture Red Hat Pro 652 points
7 May 2013 3:58 AM

Hi Paul,

Were you able to see the adapter using the ip command?

If you prefer, feel free to share the output here, so please run:

     ip link

Cheers

Fábio Da Cunha

Jamie Bainbridge's picture Red Hat Guru 7257 points
7 May 2013 4:07 AM

We're currently working with hardware vendors to add support for several new Broadcom wireless cards, but unfortunately the BCM43228 hasn't been included in RHEL 6 yet.

We do have a request for this open:

 Bug 819395 - Wireless card(BCM43228) can not be supported by RHEL6.2
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819395

The inclusion was not able to be addressed for RHEL 6.3 (when this bug was opened) but I have set the flags on the bug to request again for RHEL 6.5.

Please feel free to open a support case if you'd like to be kept updated with the status of this request. Please reference this Groups thread when you open your case.

PS Community Member 25 points
7 May 2013 3:53 PM 
[root@US2134080 ~]# ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: em1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether e0:db:55:e4:79:ac brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: vmnet1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: vmnet8: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: pan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
    link/ether 6a:ec:1f:01:0f:0f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Thanks, I will look forward to RHEL 6.5 then.  I'm crippled on the airplane and other places I can't get a wired connection until then.  I first tried Ubuntu and the wireless card worked fine out of the box, but only RHEL or Windows is supported by by firm.

Jamie Bainbridge's picture Red Hat Guru 7257 points
7 May 2013 10:24 PM

Happy to help, though I'm only able to request for RHEL 6.5, it's ultimately up to Product Management, and the actual availability of the drivers from Broadcom.

If you need a solution right now, your hardware manufacturer or Broadcom may be able to supply you a third-party driver, or some source code and instructions to build the driver.

Being third-party software, the supplier of such a driver would then assume technical support for the driver until you're able to move to a driver supplied by us.

wM Newbie 5 points
14 July 2015 4:54 PM

Existe alguma novidade sobre o problema?

Jamie Bainbridge's picture Red Hat Guru 7257 points
14 July 2015 10:26 PM

To support this in RHEL, we first need Broadcom to open source the drivers. Broadcom have advised they won't be doing this in the forseeable future.

Your hardware vendor may be able to supply drivers.

Alternately, the ELRepo community project provide their wl-kmod driver package which can support this hardware.

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