Brcmsmac Broadcom BMC4313 installation “Device is not active” and “Wireless is not associated”

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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Hello

I am trying install in LUCI brcmsmac drivers for Broadcom BMC4313 mini pcie wifi adapter
on x64 openwrt 19.07.3

but after reboot it says Device is not active

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first I tried to install this packages

brcmsmac-firmware	20190416-1
kmod-brcmsmac	4.14.180+4.19.120-1-1

but they complain complain each-other
because of firmware files bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw and bcm43xx-0.fw

so I installed only kmod-brcmsmac 4.14.180+4.19.120-1-1

but got Device is not active
and scan dont give results

than trough WinSCP changed bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw and bcm43xx-0.fw in /lib/firmware/brcm
with new ones from
brcmsmac-firmware 20190416-1

after reboot scan started give results

but did not connect to networks
and everything looks like on screenshot above

I am installing brcmsmac to have AP mode

please help me to configure my adapter

thank you

PS

in other linux forum I googled that enabling
Networking Support->Wireless->cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility

helped some people (forum is not about openwrt)

PSS

kmod-brcmsmac installs
kmod-cfg80211 and kmod-mac80211

/etc/config/wireless

config wifi-device 'radio0'
	option type 'mac80211'
	option channel '11'
	option hwmode '11g'
	option path 'pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:05:00.0/bcma0:1'
	option htmode 'HT20'
	option country 'US'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
	option device 'radio0'
	option network 'lan'
	option mode 'ap'
	option ssid 'OpenWrt'
	option encryption 'none'
2

Click the edit button (in the picture you posted) and then the enable button to switch on the radio device (or remove option disabled '1')

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config wifi-device 'radio0'
	option type 'mac80211'
	option channel '11'
	option hwmode '11g'
	option path 'pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:05:00.0/bcma0:1'
	option htmode 'HT20'
	option country 'US'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
	option device 'radio0'
	option network 'lan'
	option mode 'ap'
	option ssid 'OpenWrt'
	option encryption 'none'

here is config
I make mistake coping that one

I pressed enable

same history as above
here is another screenshot

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please help :slight_smile:

4

OK, so now it is "on", you need to link/bridge it to LAN under Network...Interfaces...Physical settings

5

Configuration file looks right. It may be on the air now but APs will show "not associated" if no clients are connected.

6

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it is done by system automatically at the begining

there is nothing at air :frowning:
look at radio0 ` Device is not active

so devaice is not started
and restarting did not help

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it even did not connect as client

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I think there is some driver configuration issue

because

kmod-brcmsmac	4.14.180+4.19.120-1-1

did not have new firmware from
brcmsmac-firmware 20190416-1

it can not correctly configure it

can you help me configure it manually? please :slight_smile:

8

Any movement? I also have problems with bcm43225. Whatever I do I cannot get it to work with any driver other than b43.
With kmod-brcm-wl-mini I get "wl0: 5.10.56.27 driver failed with code 11"
And with brcmsmac I have the same problem with brcmsmac-firmware and kmod-brcmsmac. And wifi config doesn't output anything.

9

brcmsmac does not support AP mode.

10

Good afternoon.
Today I tried to replace the BCM4313 firmware which is located in / lib / firmware / brcm and now my wifi has worked without problems.
Downloaded from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/snapshot/linux-firmware-e4379d14549cd9b29988cf3c5b74b29d2051dd09.tar.gz
Original driver installed by kmod-brcmsmac.
Don't forget to restart your device.